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How To Make Elderflower Cordial

10 June 2018 by The Tall Photographer

There are lots of recipes for how to make elderflower cordial online.

But none come with a video like this.

This will make about four litres of the most delicious elderflower cordial, that even fussy teenagers will home in on like the proverbial.

How To Make Elderflower Cordial from Charlie Budd on Vimeo.

Do you want to meet people who are on Instagram?

9 June 2018 by The Tall Photographer

I have no idea what this photo signifies except silliness and Instagram – two things I’m rather fond of. (Photo by Sally Crane, silliness by me.)

We seem to inhabit different worlds these days, the tactile, scent-laden, visceral ‘real’ world and the electronic, glass-enclosed, remote ‘virtual’ world.

Only that’s not really true, of course, because they both interweave and blend into each other.

And this is especially true when we get the chance to mobilise our sedentary arses, get out of wherever we live and work, and actually meet, face to face.

I did that yesterday, and it was fantastic. More on that later.

Stop Motion Animation Coffee Cups

16 May 2018 by The Tall Photographer

Sometimes you just have an urge to make a little stop motion film about belligerent, colourful coffee cups.

Don’t you?

I’ve had a little play with stop motion on my iPhone once or twice over the past year or so. But it was a challenge on Instagram from one of my favourite film makers, Xanthe Berkeley that finally spurred me on to make a ‘proper’ little stop frame sequence.

Xanthe was doing a promotion with the marketing agency Whalar, and Workshop Coffee. And the challenge was to tell a little story about coffee on Instagram.

Xanthe created this fabulously fun, and characteristically colourful stop frame animation to inspire people.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BillcJOgKvn/?taken-by=xantheb