Sometimes it's pretty much impossible to get him in focus.
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Sorry George. One day you'll laugh about this (maybe).
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Weekend photos
A bit of flash experimentation, hence the colour weirdness in one or two of them... .
Picking a book to read
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Enjoying his new toy (identical to the one that we gave Charlie Robinson on his first birthday)
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A Sunday morning treat - watching the animated BBC version of The Gruffalo
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About last night
Dinner and drinks with the "Ladies' Auxiliary" (Baby Group Parents) in Happy Valley. More drinks than dinner, if we're being honest. All photos from the iPhone:
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Unstoppable
Philip's Studio Opening
Philip kindly invited me to the opening of his new studio in Causeway Bay. Good times, great people and the perfect way to kick off his new career in photography: .
The new studio
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Philip and his lovely wife Heidi
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The incredibly talented Lawrence Tsang
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The most awesome cake ever
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More Sri Lankan randomness
Sarah on the beach - this was just before we took photos of the Sri Lankan kids jumping in the sunset
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A frog (Sinhalese: "gemba") on the wall of one of the restaurants we went to in Galle
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More elephant bathing action from Pinnewela. Those two brown lumps at the top are indeed what you think they are.
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Tim and Charlie walking around the villas in Sigiriya
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George during a game of hide and seek in our hotel room in Colombo
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Saturday morning sunshine
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Daddy visit
The little man came down to the grassy area outside my work, so Philip and I popped downstairs for a coffee and to hang with the G monster for a few minutes. These photos are a bit of a combo effort - Philip (who usually takes photos of weddings) took them on my camera, and I did the computer tweaking at home after work: .
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Happy Birthday Uncle / Godfather Ross!
Can you believe that this photo is 17 years old?! Happy birthday Ross! Much love from the Far East, and in particular much dribbly (and slightly grumpy, if we're being honest this morning) love from your godson. .
Pink bowties and waistcoats with yellow smiley face buttons are going to come back in style. I just know it.
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Tell me if you're sick of the holiday photos
Stark raving mad dude jumping off a structure at the Galle Fort (we gave him about US$10 to get this photo). He came over and looked at the LCD preview after I took the photo and said "I'm like a bird!"
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George exchanging flowers with Wijey (one of the villa staff in Galle). The flowers were a gorgeous pink, but I struggled to get the colours right when I was editing this - so I went black and white. I'll try again over the weekend. The photo might look a little soft - it wasn't anything I did to the photo... unfortunately the lens was coated in condensation (the camera had been sitting in an air conditioned room and it was 38 degrees Celsius outside)
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Gorgeous little Penny at Sigiriya
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Rachel and George playing on the beach at Galle
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One of the many curry dinners we had on the trip. I ate the equivalent of my bodyweight in poppadoms.
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Charlie watches Tim hurling an old coconut husk back into the sea
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The whole team at the beach in Galle (before anyone asks, George was looking away in every photo I took)
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