Jasmine The Giraffe

 Having a baby includes – for some people – identifying an important set of colours. Marie, my wife, is one of those, and one day she brought home a small toy giraffe which she a) named Jasmine, and b) stated that Jasmine’s colours would be the colour of our baby’s room and all accessories. Naturally I agreed to this. What do you think I am, stupid? And here, photographed in all her green/pink/blue finery, is that very Jasmine: 

Nikon D300, Tamron SP AF 90mm f/2.8 Di Macro lens, 1/1000 at f 10, ISO 320, hand held no flash. I had this picture blown up onto canvas, and it now hangs on the baby’s bedroom wall. For this I used the pin-sharp Tamron 90mm macro lens, and took it up to our decking on a sunny evening. I kept it a secret from Marie until yesterday – she loved it and I am now spending the brownie points thus achieved by watching The Ashes and The Open Championship golf…