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Inspired by a Spanish ad I found on the internet I created my first entry for the 2012 DOCMA awards competition.

Last year I entered the competition for the first time and won third prize.

This year the theme is "warning labels". The label on the bottom of the eggplants reads: "Warning. This product is genetically modified. Do not feed. Do not pet."

I shot the eggplants in the kitchen before they got eaten for dinner. Created the labels myself. Landscape courtesy of wikimedia commons.

Remember this game? Thought to originate from China, the game of Rock Paper Scissors was a real alternative to flipping coins when I was young. Probably still very much in use although I personally haven't played it in years.

Constructed from too many different bits of images to mention any one contributor individually. Some pieces photographed with my iPhone.

When I had finished the picture I realised I still tend to automatically write 2011 instead of 2012.

Challenged by blackpoolstudio on deviantart to create something with a portrait they provided as stock on deviantart.

"Blindman Shooting" (500px.com/blindmanshooting) - a photographer living in NY these days challenged me to come up with my interpretation of his video clip "Amboy". The video features Blndman's photos from 1980, when on a trip along Highway 66 in California, he got stuck in a traffic jam and had to turn of the road in search of petrol. The nearest place was Amboy. What he found there he documented in wonderful b&w photos. These he collected into a slideshow and added music by Willie Nelson. The song is "Funny how time slips away".

blindman asked me to watch the video and create an "answer" the David-way based on my feelings while watching the pictures.

If you want to spend 5 minutes in awe of an award-winning photographer and his art, I can only recommend you go and watch his video Amboy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0D9PUoAraY

You see, I always wondered about that. Then I found out it's chocolate ice cream that makes them forget everything. It all makes sense, you see.

The lesson in this for all aspiring volunteers for portrait work with me is: never give me permission to keep the outtakes from your shoots for use later. :-)

Thanks to Olga for being such a great sport! This sentence is purely preemptive. She hasn't seen me create this yet, and she hasn't seen it posted all over the internet yet either.

Update: She has seen the picture and I am still alive and well. :-)