Lemons | Lemonade

Occasionally life provides lemons that don't need to be made into lemonade. 

Instead life offers you up the most gorgeous hammered copper bowl of lumpy-skinned Amalfi citrus, their leaves still clinging to their stalks. Their yellow sings in the shadows. That yellow is my favourite colour.

That's all you need sometimes.

Thank you to the nice barista at Fernandez and Wells on Denmark Street who let me kneel awkwardly on a stool in the middle of the shop to snap these pictures and then waved cheerily at me as I photographed another through the window on my way out. 

Tori, smoking

I put a photo of Tori up on Facebook last week but wanted to share a few more here. I love these shots for their night-time glamour and for the simple fact that she has the most impossibly lovely face. 

Like my portrait of Ruth, there's an air of classic femme fatale here - the coat collars, the shadows, the intimate textures of hair and skin. I'm continually impressed by my Olympus OMD EM-10 which I use almost exclusively with the 25mm f1.8 lens (a 50mm equivalent). For such a tiny camera, the quality is fabulous for capturing images in low light, my favourite kind of shooting.

Goldfish

Something I find myself photographing again and again: fish and their tanks. What is it that fascinates me? Their otherworldliness maybe, or their sculptural forms and bright colours.