Back again, after another wedding weekend. I have been to three weddings so far this Summer, and they all have been lots of fun. I have started to feel a bit like a wedding photographer with all the snapping I have been doing. I am considering dedicating a new section on my website to wedding photography, a much maligned field if you ask me. Coincidentally, I got chatting to a random on the tube recently when he took an interest in my SLR. It turns out that he was a wedding photographer, and did not have much to say about the subject beyond its financial ramifications. Nice enough chap though.

Anyhow, we shall see what comes of that in the future.

I have found a new medium for portraits:

Witness the bizarre and outlandish magic of Magna.Doodle! The subject is Mr Matt Dawson esq.

I really was not convinced at first. The device only lets you erase in a large sweep across the board. Someone round the dinner table suggested using the the back of a magnetic head-torch on the back of the magnadoodle like an eraser and it worked! Lovely jubbly.

I like the clean contrast of the black line against the light honeycomb. I like the fact that you have to rub out each picture before you can start another one. I like the fact that the board is properly known as a ‘magnetophoretic display’. I like the fact that it is the only drawing medium I have ever found which doesn’t let me cover everything in mess and shit.

I cannot do any more because the magnadoodle is safe in its home in the kitchen of my friends’ new house in Bristol. I might have to start scouring the charity shops for one. Or an etch-a-sketch.

Posted on July 7