This might come across as a bit of a cop-out seeing as it’s a Photoshop filter applied to a previous post, but it’s all I had handy and I’m horendously behind in my posts – so bugger it.

Can’t quite remember how I came across the Redfield Fractalius filter, but I quite liked the result of applying it to Strawberry Porn Noir.

At most jobs you make friends, but more often than not those friendships last only as long as the job does. Without having that common workplace, the relationship quickly dies a natural death. Every now and again though, in life as well as work, you make a good friend and it’s a lasting friendship that far outlives the workplace.

I met JP here when I did a stint at one of the big ad agencies in town. It was just a six month contract that was over before I knew it, but JP and I hit it off really well and now I’d definitely count him as one of my good friends.

JP has been on Detour before, when he was about to zip off on his new toy.

Was looking through my archives and came across this one, which is a sister photo to One Shot. I liked the tones in One Shot, so I thought I’d play around with this one a bit.

Still not sure how best to display these portrait/vertical shots. They tend to be 1200px high and with the browser toolbars etc, are probably only fully viewable on large screens. Everyone else has to scroll.

You know how I said the other day that I’d been working pretty hard recently? Well this work shot shows I’ve been working about twice as hard as most people. Twice as hard because that blurry walker in the left foreground is me, and that hard worker in the right background is me too. What can I say? I’m twice the person anyone else is!

Previously I’d posted the back image used on the invite for our new office launch, well this was the cover shot. As you can see we had a selective de/saturation thing going on with it all. People loved it. And the night lived up to all expectations!

A friend of mine is opening a clothing store and offered me some wallspace to hang some of my shots, with the aim of selling them. Excellent I thought. But you know what, it’s really hard to look at your own work from a commercial point of view and try to figure out what would sell, what would entice someone to fork over their hard earned cash. So hey, suggestions are welcome here.

And thanks to everyone (the four of you) who commented yesterday that you were still dropping by this little ol site of mine. I appreciate that.

If anyone is still visiting Detour, and I really hope a few of you still remain out there, you might be interested to hear that starting this week I should be able to return to a more regular posting schedule. Unfortunately life these past two months has just been so busy that the usual sacrifices (health and Detour) get made. Sucks, but there are only so many hours in the day. But yeah, stick around and I’ll get things back on track.

One entertaining thing L&S had at their wedding reception was a Polaroid camera, a book to stick the photos into, and this picture frame for people to pose with. This girl (dunno her name) seemed to be spearheading the idea and so I thought it’d be fun to get her to pose with the frame. At first she was reluctant, but some words of encouragement and she joined in the fun!

Braziers are a rather convenient source of flames, making them quite handy for photography.

L&S’s wedding was a really long day for me, 10+ hours on my feet. So by the end of the day not only were my feet killing me but my recently sprained ankle was almost screaming in agony. But hey, whatever it takes to get the job done, hey?!

And what does all that have to do with this shot? This was the very last shot of the day, and just seeing it reminds me how tired I was when I took it.

At L&S’s wedding they had a sweets table for people to take ’something sweet for the ride home’. Course, I nibbled some every time I passed it!

Simple shot of the heater outside L&S’s wedding reception. Being an autumnal wedding it was a bit nippy.

I ended up with a bunch of photos with L&S kissing (to be expected given it was their wedding day!). I think this is one of my favourites – the moment just before.

The placecard and bonbonerie for S, the groom.

The father of the bride checks his watch as the departure time fast approaches.

The bride’s father checks over his speech as she and the bridesmaids get ready.