Sussex Photographer Bernie Greene scratching out a tune while trying not to fall off the roof

Saw Max today. He begged me for another portrait. I eventually gave in. Then he spent an hour and a half in make-up and another hour getting his hair just right.

At the end of that he was so excited he just wouldn’t keep still. So I told him to meditate on the meaning of his life. After about 15 minutes he settled into a contemplative mood.

We exchanged some thoughts on philosophy and then listened tothe radio for a bit. We heard about the election being announced today and Gordon Brown saying “the future is within our grasp”. Max was immediately gripped with the profoundness of this thought. And I got this.

"The future is within our grasp"

Meet Max.

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Not sure if the mood matches the face. But what a face. He’s a wow with the girls.

Rosie

Well if the rest of this 365 is as interesting and revealing to me as the first two days then it won’t just be worthwhile it will be worthwhile in spades.

This is Rosie. She lives with a private tuition student of mine. I had wanted to  shoot her for ages, just as a lighting challenge, but what I got from this was far more than that. I’ve found that I like shooting dogs. This is the second one in two months. The first was with her owner so this is the first solo dog.

I treated it much like shooting a portrait as far as lighting her.  The processing is quite a bit different.

The cheese yesterday was fun and quite a change from shooting people. I will do a lot more food type shots in this project but I don’t expect them to be as satisfying for me as shooting live subjects.