Looking for that original shot..

Have you ever noticed how some things just explode on social media? Not posts that go viral just things that everyone wants to capture. Your feed will be full of photos and videos of exactly the same thing - same view, same shot. So how do you find some originality?

During the autumn of 2024 and early part of 2025 The Design Museum in London hosted Tim Burton's travelling exhibition 'The World of Tim Burton'. We love his work so much that we had been tracking the exhibition world wide for the past 10 years and hurriedly got on the pre-sale list when we heard it was stopping in London.

We bought tickets to coincide with our wedding anniversary in March, so by the time we went we had seen reels and YouTube videos, walk throughs and photos of almost every item in the exhibition. I suppose you shouldn't look but sometimes you see things before you realise what they are and almost everything these days from film endings to Strictly results is spoiled by someone who feels the need to share it. But we all keep scrolling...

So we didn't take our cameras and had no plans to video - we thought we would just enjoy the experience, but when I got inside all I could see in my photographic brain was portrait shots of some of my favourite characters in model form! And much smaller than expected!

Almost everything I like in a portrait - expressive features, big eyes and real characters! And unlike real models, kids and dogs they don't move! Here's some of my favourites - see who you recognise!

And my favourite?

And I'm sure you might recognise these two...