Covent Garden - Big Hands?

These Big Hands have been cropping up all over the world, in various big cities... judging by the positioning (it's one that we know well), it must be photography-related, but how? And who?

Here they are in Covent Garden, well-known for hordes of tourists snapping photos of each other (usually next to the living statues), but according to a website they are also cropping up in Warsaw, Milan, Zurich and Paris!

From the positioning of the hands, I'd say they're holding something small - a compact camera, or a camera phone? Maybe one of those cool spy cameras :D Not my usual giant old SLR, that's for sure - but I'll be looking out for more news around it. After all, big hands don't appear in Covent Garden every day.


This post is sponsored, but I don't know who by....

In defence of Brown

Brown. 

It's not a terrible colour. In fact, sometimes it can be quite lovely. After a long day's shooting, a pint of something brown can be the best thing EVER. Especially after you've just opened the back of the camera by mistake, letting all the awful light in to spoil your shots (I do this, a lot - need to tape them shut). Newcastle Brown Ale has had a bit of a revival in recent years, and to celebrate, they've made a trio of rather funny videos, showing how your day is never so bad, it can't get a little better.

Also, I wish there were more pubs like this around near me. I recently went along to a tune session (ye olde English folk music!) and took some photos of the musicians and the pub itself - a tiny place, tucked away in the Sussex countryside. If I don't open the back of the camera by mistake before long, I'll post them up here :)

Check out the videos - they're only short, and worth a giggle, even if they did use cockney actors in an ad for NEWCASTLE Brown Ale. Ah well.

This post was sponsored by Newcastle Brown Ale, but the opinions are all my own :) Credit for the first photo goes to http://www.flickr.com/photos/heringa/228357750