I DON’T LIKE CHICKENS – I LOVE THEM

Chickens are brilliant, not only do they provide eggs-sweet-eggs, but they are also endlessly comical and entertaining.  Behold their funny way of walking and their wacky way of talking.

Hannah’s Sister-in-law/best mate has chickens, that makes me jealous at best.

When we visited them a few weeks back, it struck me that the humble, traditional chicken – a true British sign of the countryside and classic farming life, would be well suited to the primitive and nostalgic pinhole photograph technique.  For some reason, Chickens remind me of small holdings, the simple life, eggs every day for breakfast and rural living in general.

See what you think of the results – personally, I am really pleased with these photos!  I think they have a really nice charm about them and an interesting range of colours and focus.

Long live digital pinhole chickens.

Kinswood Egg Man - protects you from salmonella

Bought some eggs the other day at a car boot sale – local and free range.  Nice.

They came from someone who had a small holding, so obviously collected and kept egg boxes so they could sell them at boot sales and alike.

After finished with said eggs, I was about to put the box in the compost heap when,  the incredible egg man that was featured on the front of the box caught my attention.

Check him out – he’s amazing!

However, what really struck me was what the point of the egg man was – what are Kinswood trying to reveal?

A muscle-man, athletic egg man is not the way I would choose to sell eggs!  I can’t work out whether his purpose is to show he is strong and fit and therefore salmonella free…or if by eating the eggs, you will become a athletic, salmonella free egg man!

If the thinking was the latter, then this raises a new problem – I am not sure I want to eat an egg that has bigger muscles than me and wears snazzy red trainers!

God bless designers!

Also reminded me of a comic book Hannah gave me at Christmas called ‘Egg Story’.  The simple tale of a simple egg that becomes a ninja.

Perhaps Eggs are an unexploited form of creativity.