Twinkle, twinkle little star...

How I wonder.... how on earth I missed you hanging over the fireplace from Christmas?? It's definitely not perfect, but I'd nothing else to blip other than a photo of my tatty 'creation' and at least 40 rubbish photos of a Geisha.

So today was spent mainly working and being 'creative' with a cardboard box. I have a colourfully painted, wooden, Geisha type ornament which I found in a charity shop before Christmas for £1.50. She sits on my desk and I've had a thing about photographing her for a while, but if you stand her in natural light the windows reflect in the glossy paint.

When I finished my work, I decided to look up on t'interweb how to make a lightbox/tent. Found I had most of the stuff required: cardboard box, white paper, sellotape, an old sheet, Stanley knife etc and spent a couple of hours hacking and sticking before realising I probably needed at least 3 daylight bulbs and lamps too. Thought I could surely improvise with my desk lamp, one off camera flash and an led light. I then spent a frustrating and pretty unsuccessful evening laid on the floor behind a chair, listening to Winterwatch and trying to photograph the Geisha in my lightbox, which was my planned blip.

Thought perhaps the very reflective surface was too much of a challenge without the proper lighting and looked around the room, a bit more thoroughly (desperately?) than usual for something else to try out in the tent - that's when I spotted the stray, dangly, gold star.

Magazine update: It sounded promising from the cover so when I thought I was half way through yesterday, by the time I'd skipped the adverts and camera reviews there wasn't anything left to read. Back to bedside pile clearance then...