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2010 is the year that photography, a long-standing hobby of mine, returned in force to my pastimes:

1. I first did proper "modelled" photography

   Excluding a very short spell of promotional photography at university for a dramatic production, this is the first time I have had someone stand in front of the camera with the specific aim of them being the subject of the picture. I'd not directed a model, and suddenly I had two. Practice, practice, practice!

Monster polar panorama taken at the summit of Pleney.

Rig:

Earlier in 2010, while en-route to Morzine, I took my co-travellers to the "art deco café" at Bellegarde train station. A few months after I arrived home Bellegarde was unveiled as the future of French railway stations to come, and so I was curious to revisit the station this winter.

Sadly it would appear that the "art deco café" has gone the way of progress. Before:

After:

Including the ticket office where, two years ago, I had to plead for replacement tickets. Taken with the Ross double-element lens.

Including a panorama at Gare du Nord, taken while loaning the use of my phone to an American girl trying to contact her European friends.

This is just a fragment of the bedlam that is my Christmas Eve. Unfortunately I'm sick of the twenty-something family member celebration, and shalln't be attending it again.