Pete and I decided to have our own little coffee morning and share some insight into what great big nerds we are whilst also having a little mutter about Movember and begging for more money.
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TTFN
Rob and Pete
Well the amazing news is that I’ve been offered the opportunity to exhibit some of my photography at a local gallery. Unfortunately there are costs involved in this honour and I need to weigh them up – the obvious costs being printing and framing, but I also need to hire the wall space (the lowest cost being a 6′ x 6′ area of wall) which has a two-week minimum hire charge.
My ego says hire the whole hall, print hundreds of pictures, leave them for six months and you’ll be a millionaire by then. The reality is more like hire one 6′ x 6′ area for a month to six weeks and print out six strong images.
But how do I decide which pictures? Am I going to sell any of them? How much will people be willing to spend on them? How much do I spend on framing?
This my dear friends of the blogosphere is where I am seeking your help…..
Please look through the pictures and let me have your comments on any or all of the following:
* which six prints I should go with;
* whether you would have them on your wall;
* how much would you be willing to pay for a framed copy of approx 10″x 8″ inches;
* should I go with a theme, wildlife as a whole/owls/big cats/Brighton etc. etc. etc.?
Print 1
Print 2
Print 3
Print 4
Print 5
Print 6
Print 7
Print 8
Print 9
Print 10
Print 11
Print 12
Print 13
Print 14
Print 15
Print 16
Print 17
Print 18
Print 19
Print 20
Print 21
Print 22
Print 23
Print 24
Print 25
Please share this post around your friends – I will be giving away one personalised signed print (of your choice) to whomever writes the most helpful comment (not in the least bit impartial but it’s my competition) wherever in the world you may hail from.
I need to make some decisions in the next fortnight so that’s how long I’ll keep the initial run open for. Don’t forget to mention which print number you’d like as your prize.
Please feel to leave your comments below or you can go through the Facebook page or email them directly to rantingmrbunnychow@gmail.com
You see I am agonising over every aspect – I need your help!
Take care and thank you in advance
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
P.S. I reserve the right to ignore all advice and take more pretty pictures between now and when the exhibition happens.
and to follow on, here come the big cats, well and some meerkats because, well because they’re cute and some jellyfish because they’re pretty.
The light on the day way dire to say the least and my primary focus was ensuring I didn’t lose the kids in the crowds too often, I still came away with a couple of shots that I am over the moon with and several hundred more for the scrap-heap.
as previously shared
darn sticks
my favourite picture of the day
here kitty kitty
am I regal enough?
ok I’ll move along then
why hello there
it wasn’t us we’re innocent I tell you
we’re not aliens
I hope you like them and please do add your thoughts and comments to the section below, I’m obviously emotionally attached to the pictures and critiques and ideas are always welcome.
Hope you’re having a great day.
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
as promised I am going to share some shots from my shoot with new Croydon rock and roll band Mach 23 Around the Silver Planet I had an absolute blast with these guys and whilst I’d do the shoot differently next time (dig out my flash for a start) I really enjoyed forcing myself to really make the best use of the terrible lighting in the studio.
so without further ado, here they are in all their glory.
I’ve gone fairly lo-fi on my editing for a number of reasons, first I think it fits the feel of the band’s style, all of them would really like to have big hair and tight leather trousers so they could be as if they could be in Bon Jovi in 1986, second the low light meant I really had to push the ISO to the limit of my ancient DSLR’s (1600) capacity, especially as the small room meant I was forced to use my wide lens which doesn’t go below f4.
I still am really proud of how they came out though and I know the band themselves were over the moon.
Maybe one day they’ll be rich and famous and will pay me for my services.
My photo’s from the zoo are still coming.
Have a great day y’all.
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
This is just a quick preview of what’s coming up on these here pages, I did a photo shoot with new band Mach 23 Around the Silver Planet on Friday night please check out their page for some of my pictures. and then on Saturday we visited Chessington Zoo where I managed to get what I think are some stunning big cat photo’s which I’ll be doing a full post on in due course.
Please do also swing by my facebook page and say hi I promise I’m getting much better at getting things on to there in a timely manner.
In the meantime here’s a quick teaser
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
A South African friend (not sure what relevance the South African bit has) has put together this little product photography group on Google+ and we’d like as many of you as possible, from all levels and abilities to come and join us.
We’re all in it to learn as well as teach so drop by and say hello, all are welcome
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
it’s been a while since I’ve done any random waffling and warbling in these pages and I thought it was about time I changed that.
Christmas is rapidly approaching and as usual I am woefully unprepared, Mrs BC is impossible to buy for that only guidelines I have are that kitchenware is out for some reason, things that smell nice are out, clothing is out, jewellery is out. That doesn’t leave me with a whole bunch of choices, never mind that fact that all of our friends will also turn to me for guidance as they too are fully aware that she’s impossible. I’ve even tried the hugely unsubtle, “what do you want for Christmas dearest, sweetcheeks?” the response was the very helpful “A present”.
The boys should be easy but are proving equally frustrating, they have so many toys and the youngest at 16 months is clueless about christmas, I have no doubt he’ll enjoy ripping up paper and playing with boxes but as yet he has no concept of sharing or ownership, basically he see’s the world with everything being his. The Monkey on the other hand just wants everything, his obsession with Scooby Doo is still showing no sign of abating and whilst I can think of worse things, I mean he could be obsessed by a purple dinosaur or the teletubbies, there are only so many Scooby Doo related accessories and toys one very small house can hold.
It is now only three weeks until I finish paid employment for the forseeable future and I’m beginning to panic about how I’m going to entertain the boys day in and day out, I know I’ll never be fully prepared it’s just one of those things I’m going to have to practice and work on. My only starting point is that there will be no daytime television. Thankfully they are both great readers and I have at least a couple of art projects in the back of my head to get us started.
It’s all very daunting and exciting though.
My other news for the week is that the sweet little disease ridden darlings have been kind enough to bless Mrs Bunny Chow and I with colds. I’m not a fan waking up feeling like I’m still a smoker (I haven’t been for years) or that I’ve been inhaling pure pollen through my nose through the night, seriously I’ve spent the day leaking from every upper orifice whilst hawking up crunchy stuff from my lungs, I mean surely that can’t be good.
I know winter has arrived (Canadian readers I know you’re tough) but I don’t approve of having to scrape ice off of my car in the mornings or the fact that there is still frost on the ground at lunchtime. I’m from Africa though, I can deal with cold as long as it’s safe for T Shirts and shorts to be worn by the middle of the day, in fact I don’t like anything below about 20C (70ish F). I’ve lived on Mud Island for fifteen years by the end of this year and I still struggle with winter. I mean seriously is global warming such a bad idea, can I afford a V8?
Ok that’s enough whining from me.
I hope you have a great weekend
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
I know I know I’m back again already but I realised I was actually a week behind sharing with you even if the pictures were already in the can.
negative space
Not a lot else to say other than I hope you enjoy my interpretation of negative space.
now that I’m back up to date I guess I’d better go out and find you some colour to satisfy next weeks hopefully more upbeat theme
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
I’m not even going to bother trying to apologise for my levels of crapness this week I’m just going to throw this one out there, but I can assure you that you can be safe in the knowledge that this weeks theme Autumn could not be more appropriate, I thought summer this year was generally pretty awful but goodness gracious me do I always forget how much I hate the cold grey misery of Autumn, funnily enough by the time winter proper comes around I generally have re-acclimatised and cope fine, but these last few weeks as the nights draw in are sheer hell for me.
throw in kids who are teething, kids with inexplicable temperatures, me and Mrs BC with constant coughs and sniffles, a silly work load and I’m frankly amazed at how little I’ve been ranting in these pages, maybe it’s just exhaustion that has made me too lazy to bother.
Still the local council suck for giving me a parking ticket whilst I waited to collect a sniffly miserable Mrs BC from the station, they didn’t even have the guts to give it to me there and then rather they just chucked it in the post to allow me to rant no doubt fruitlessly at their on-line appeals process. I might win, they say I was parked on the walkway, I say I was parked in a driveway, time will tell if they’re going to get their sixty pieces of silver.
I guess this photo kinda show’s where I would rather be on a cold miserable Autumn evening
steamy warm pub
Until the next time, which hopefully will be soon.
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
oh what a hopeless host I’ve been, I can only apologise it’s been a hectic couple of weeks on both the home and work fronts.
on a positive note I’ve entered one of the Trip to Brighton pics in a photography competition on the dreaded Facebook and would be hugely honoured if you’d click on the link and vote for it by clicking like on Facebook. I’m not much of a facebooker but please feel free to add me there if you want to.
The theme for week 37 was in the garden and I’ve ummmed and ahhhed over long and hard, my own garden is definitely not for public consumption at the moment and I’ve done dozens of roses at night for you so I thought I’d share this technically terrible but still rather fun shot of the blogs namesake Bunny Chow chasing a fox in a neighbourhood garden (the gardens attached to a block of flats I don’t make a habit of traipsing through people’s back gardens)
Bunny and Master Fox esquire
I apologise for the terrible quality, it was taken with my 50mm and a big arse flash gun
Until next time
TTFN
Mr Bunny Chow
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