Moody

My final photo of Carla, from my wonderful shoot with her the other day.

Nothing much else really to say.

Blondie

Here's another, more edgy look of model Carlo Monaco, but still as beautiful.

I think there's a slight look of Debbie Harry in this shot. Maybe it's the blonde hair, the pout or the cheekbones.But the camera sure does love her, even in my amateurish shots.

The Ace Of Spades

Driving past the White Hart pub in Lenton, We came across a gathering of motorcyclists. Oh, I said, a photo opportunity. So I parked up and we went to investigate.

The White Hart is a pub that I cycle past every day on my way to work, but I've never actually been inside. So this was also an opportunity to put this right.

As we were both hungry, we went in for some food. We both went for the enchiladas; and very tasty they were too. I think we will be eating there again, as it was good food, well cooked and quite reasonably priced.

So onto the motorbikes. Although I'm not that keen on them, I was impressed on how they riders had customised them. We were particularly impressed with the main one in the photo, who's owner is stood by Gail, explaining the in's and out's of his machine. He said that the skulls that adorn the bike were made by someone in the West Midlands, who is now so good at such things, that he has gone into business for himself.

Apparently the Nottingham Aces group have been meeting at the pub for about the last fifty odd years. So we had a look inside their club room. The walls were adorned with loads of photos of club members, both past & present, memorabilia and motorbike artworks. They even had a old wall mounted jukebox that had loads of Sixties hits. In fact I didn't really see any tunes that were later than about 1972.

It was quite an interesting time we had, and the group is certainly something that I'd known nothing about, despite my continual scanning of local events that are advertised in all forms of social media.

Moody

This is Chrissy, our model for the evening, while we were doing a small lighting course at our friends studio in Clifton.

Besides working in the studio, we went outside and using just one flash, set up a shot like this one.

Say Cheese

I bumped into a photography friend of mine in the Old Market Square the other day.  He was carrying his camera and I asked him what he was shooting.

Peter explained that he was resurrecting his 100 Strangers project, after resting it for a while, and has he had the day off, he had come down to the city centre to try and find some interesting characters to photograph.

Like this chap who was passing by with his wife and daughter. Clearly an ageing rocker. Actually Peter thought he might have been Alice Cooper, who was playing in town that night. But of course he wasn't. Still he made a good subject, as my photo shows.