Proud mum!

Life is extremely hectic at the moment - we are renovating the house, I'm writing two (not one, two!) books at a time, MiniMojcek Nr.2 started kindergarden way worse than we expected and MiniMojcek Nr.1 started school. The proper school. While the first two hours were terrible, the rest of the week was superb! He's got the most wonderful teacher and this is what he made on his second day at school: a self-portrait.

The inscription says "That's me" and you can surely recognise the Union Jack on the T-shirt he wore that day. That's my boy!

London Calling

My absence is excused.

 

  

Although I failed to see Mousetrap, I managed to find Seven dials and by pure chance crossed Harley Street.

On my way to Baker street, obviously. 

Feeling patriotic

This is a project .. for a customer. The 'order' was to make something that relates European Union and law, so my idea was to symbolize the justice balance, the libra, with a mobile, balancing the flags of European countries.

All I needed were the flags:



a fishing line, some skewers and patience. An hour later, I had this:



It took me way longer to photograph this thing than to actually make it. I played a lot with the illumination, remote flash, diffuser, flash reflection, aperture... But I'm pretty happy with the results: