Capturing Les Trucs on Camera

Here are a couple trucs I photographed today for my Etsy shop with my new toy (I mean camera) and I am very pleased with the results.  The reason I needed a new camera you will see below!  

Link to Etsy - 50s Limoges plate depicting 'The Elf of the Poplars'... ahhh!

Link to Etsy - A pretty in pink vintage frosted glass bonbonnière or pin dish 

I had a bit of an accident last Friday.  I was busy photographing a suspension light for my last blog post when stupidly I let my camera slip out of my hands and drop onto the kitchen floor.  Unfortunately it landed directly on the extended lens so that was the end of that.  We'd only had the camera for about 8 months so clasping the guarantee in my mitts I attempted to take it back to Hyper U in Saintes.

With a wide eyed expression I approached the counter and pleaded complete ignorance as to why there was now a 'lens error' but there was no pulling the wool over the wily After Sales Assistant's eyes who quickly diagnosed, with a rather exaggerated long-suffering expression, that the camera had without question suffered a blow (thus leaving the guarantee null and irrefutably void!)

With my tail between my legs and a slightly rouge visage we went in search of a the essential replacement (selling trucs on the internet would be kind of tricky without a camera!).  In all honesty I wasn't completely devastated at having to buy a new camera as I had various issues with the old one.  It would frequently override my request not to flash and the flash itself was positioned where I naturally hold the camera and had on countless occasions attempted to pop-up  (when I least expected it) under the fingers of the left hand.  This design fault (in my humble opinion) created virtually black photos which I then had to delete and was in part to blame for the unfortunate accident (well there may have been hand cream involved too if I'm completely honest!)

Luckily there are sales on at the moment in France so I bought myself a fab new camera for 30% off the marked retail price.  It has loads of settings and special effects to explore which will keep me quiet for days (lucky Spike!)

I'm thrilled with the few photos I've taken so far (12x optical zoom don't you know!) but would like the opportunity to take some more which is a perfect excuse to go out on a buying mission and purchase some more trucs (especially with this year's brocante season fast approaching).  

My only regret is that I would have loved to have taken a picture of my clever little camera for this post but for obvious reasons couldn't!