Blue Moon..

I love the fact that Nasri scored against his Man City team-mate Joe Hart last night, despite the fact it meant England only got a draw against France in the Euros. It must be really weird to be so reliant on another player, and then turn into his deadly rival for those 90 minutes on the pitch! Makes me think of us photographers .. all pally and bezzy mates at the bar, yet as competitive as hell when you put a Nikon in our hands. (Or a Canon, but hey ;-) that's no competition!) Even as recently as yesterday I was chatting with a Wedding photographer friend of mine, and we were discussing off-camera lighting. Whilst we both agreed that we used it, we only hinted to each other how we actually set our gear to do it, neither of us quite going as far as telling the other exactly how each of us shot. Yet, she's one of the first people I'd recommend if I was already booked for somebody's Wedding date, and would call on her in a heart-beat if I was ever unable to attend a Wedding. Mind you, that's a once-in-a-blue-moon event and, in all my 34 years as a photographer, I've never missed a Wedding yet!

Moon? Someone mention the moon? I was out-and-about at half-six this morning, enjoying the glorious summer's morning, when I looked up and shot this as an aircraft's con-trail drifted in front of the waning moon. Well, don't you walk around your garden with a 500mm mirror lens on your camera?

Glorious morning? Someone mention a glorious morning? Well, you wouldn't know it if you were listening to Chris Evans on Radio 2 this morning! You see, folks, it's raining in London today, so as far as the BBC is concerned the whole country is having a pissy, wet day! The day 'Auntie' remembers there are a lot more of us outside London than in it? Now that would be a once-in-a-blue moon event!