frank..

this is my flatmate frank. he was on tv yesterday (presstv) talking about helping people affected by the palestine conflict. i thought that i may as-well take his picture..

budget..

i wasn't alone at 5am on downing street last week when i arrived to photograph alistair darling in all his glumness walk out of number eleven with a rather battered briefcase to deliver the budget to the rest of the cabinet and a rather unhappy country.  being freelance i wanted to try and attain a different view on this yearly event which produces a lot of headshots of the chancellor and close up pictures of said briefcase...

i cant say it went exactly to plan but then what job in press photography does..? also saw this from the day which was nice by guardian regular david levene..

making tea...

Untitled from mike lusmore on Vimeo.

onwards and upwards..

i saw some amazing trails the other day from the road and after a little searching headed down there and this was the result. nice.

In other news i got a new 5d - its great. first day of shooting was yesterday at the budget where i notice not that many interesting shots got used. apart from ben gurrs photomontage in the times...   

wisley trails, surrey

real tree...

i saw this stunning sky and tree combination a week or so ago whilst driving to devon.....lovely i've seen so many sketchy dodge and burn combinations recently - and a few hdr nightmares too - whats wrong with dark and light - why do people want everything in the middle!

trying hard to get my new website online - just a few finishing touches to go.....but due to the lovely british weather peeking its head back out - the website is vying for time with my obsession for riding my bike. so now that i've written this - its off out on my bike...

golden gate bike...

so i added another day of pottering around sanding, filing and angle grinding my frame before giving it a bit of a spray today. obviously i ran out a of paint...and its a bank holiday so its back on it tomorrow.  its always good when a friend rings you up to tell you just after you have put all this effort in - that he knows a place that'll do it for thirty quid. ah heck - its all in good spirits.

right. bank holiday. beer.

if only i had time....

if i had a little time i'd get on with this bad boy.  i can see the paint job in my head right now....mmmmm. top ones is dr howes' and below is my not so progressed progress....

and sleep...

anarchists....

as anarchy prepared to hit the streets of london this week i also readied myself for the carnage.  as it happened i didn't take a helmet or those pads i carefully dug out of the cupboard.......i didnt get batteries for my walkie talkies and i forgot to hydrate myself for the day and i really really really need to stop taking the wrong lenses on jobs!!

these issues aside there really was a lot happening in london town and as the police prepared to batter would be protestors (and photographers), a whole lot of people who were out for a bit of a ruck finished their stellas and had a fight...

and lastly....where did all the cameras come from. at times i thought that we were at a canon sponsored event. or maybe nikon were handing out yet more cameras at tube stations to try and entice the last few people (including me) without a pair of d3's