just a couple more pictures......

I took a couple more pictures today, and this evening I will be putting together my book order.  I have decided to split the book into three sections, firstly will be the tilt-shift images, and this section will be entitled 'Little People'.  Next will be the model people, and this section will be named 'Big World'.  The third section will be the dictionary images and, as yet, it has no name.  I have toyed with the idea of calling it something dictionary related eg. Lexicon, but I'm not quite sure.

Anyhow, while I ponder that one, here are the last few images for the book....

Field Trip in the name of 'research'

Today I dragged my kids to Bekonscot Model Village in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire.
I had heard of it previously but never felt the need to visit until this project.  I was expecting all sort of complaints from my children, but was somewhat surprised when they all enjoyed it (even the teenager!).  We actually walked around a couple of times, spotting different things each time.  The level of detail put into the 1.5 acres is really impressive.
The model village first began to be built in 1928 and has grown and evolved since then.  More details can be found at http://www.bekonscot.co.uk/history/full/ but be warned, the site is somewhat annoying, employing not only comic sans (cringe), but the home page greets you with a friendly 'hullo!'    bleurgh!!!!!
anyway..... I took the camera, funnily enough, and here are a few pictures from the day.  I have included a couple of images to show the scale (that being the name of the game after all) and the rest I have tweaked, just for fun.