Bellydancers

Garage partys are the best.

Photography books

Blurb has made a cool new way for me to show prviews of my photos books with people ... check them out:

They Tow No More by Photographs by Ben Bird | Make Your Own Book

Susie's Farm by Photos by Ben Bird | Make Your Own Book

My Desmodronic paperweight

So, I picked up a really cool exotic, Italian paperweight with Desmo valves.
Yep... Fuel injected 620 Ducati Monster motor.
But I got nothing to do with it! So, I guess it will just look really sexy on my bench for awile!

Freelensing

A freind of mine turned me onto freelensing recently... the practice (And I do mean PRACTICE!) of removing the lens from your camera and holding it at various angles and distances from the body of the camera to see what sort of dodgy focus you can manage to aquire. To call it manual focus is a bit of an understatement. VERY hit and miss, tons of fun, and not to serious at all... these are a few of what I have managed to get so far.

Adam's ratty XJ