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It’s 0115 (in the morning) and I have just printed out the proof photos for the mother/daughter portrait session I did this morning in the Botanical gardens.

See my business blog for a sneak peek.

Up early tomorrow with Matthew to go for a walk on the beach with Lucy and Jake.

* YAWN *

I have 13,000 + photos in my Lightroom catalog and I am running out of space so it is time to be ruthless.

I am going through my photos from present day backwards and deleting any shot that falls into ANY of the categories below:

1. A crap photo (that’s 12,000 gone straight away)
2. Part of a series (obviously I keep the best one or two)
3. Out of focus (but not if I intended it)

I’ve already deleted about 200 photos from the last week saving over 700 Mb.

I might have a hard drive again soon.

On another note, I have assigned Lucy my 512Mb compact flash card so we know whose photos are whose because she is one talented photographer and we are having trouble telling our shots apart sometimes. We took Jake for a walk and she happily played with the 300D for an hour and a bit. For you purists, it was an official walk as she took a photo of me lying on the ground taking a photo of something.

As Lucy’s photo suggests, I didn’t pull up as well after the cocktail party as I had hoped. Although laughing at me continuously she was an angel and let me sleep until 2.30 in the afternoon.

This was my first hangover in fifteen years and it was nasty.

The sunglasses were necessary as even with the blinds closed, the morning light was rather harsh and determined to encourage the tom tom solo in my brain.

After recovering we did some gardening before Lucy went to work for an hour or so. I did some shopping for the picnic at the park we were attending and also picked up a copy of “The truth about Cats & Dogs” a soppy film I have always liked but like even more now that I have discovered that Brian (the photographer) shoots with Canon cameras.

We spent a very pleasant evening at the local park listening to a big band play Christmas carols and classic swing numbers like Mac the Knife (stop singing David). I had the camera with me to take my 365 day portrait and Lucy had fun taking more of her own shots. There’s not much more hotter than a girl wielding a big camera with an L series lens attached.

After taking a walk down the beach we came home and watched the DVD.

So apart from the slow start to the day it was another great weekend.

Saturday was a Christmas theme day.

Matthew and I went to see Lucy and Jake. We went to the beach for a walk and grabbed some breakfast at the Chelsea beach kiosk (once we found it). After this we went to the Christmas Kingdom to augment Lucy’s Christmas decorations.

After having our photo taken with Santa, we piled back in the car and went to put up the Christmas tree. All three us us helping in our special way. Matthew entertained Jake, Lucy put up the decorations and I took photos of them both.

After taking Matthew back to his mother, Lucy and I went and did some clothes shopping (for me) and stocking up of the cupboard (Lucy) before heading home and doing very little on the hammock.

After taking Jake for his afternoon walk we were picked up by friends and taken to a great little cocktail party (an annual event). The drinks were varied and plentiful … this was both a good thing and a bad thing.

Luckily I knew I had history on my side. I have not had a hangover in over fifteen years, so I knew I’d pull up fine.

Well what a weekend that was.

Three shoots for two clients (first one blogged about here), BBQ with Lucy’s dive club, 80th birthday for my Nana and a couple of walks with Jake make Richard a tired boy.

Just realised I haven’t downloaded all the photos from the weekend off the camera yet.

My new lens worked a treat. I rarely had it off the camera all weekend.

Must go … sleepy.