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What the butler saw.
Did you know that the convex mirror used to be known as the butler’s mirror? Hung above the dining room sideboard, the decorative convex mirror would allow the butler to keep a discrete eye on guests while keeping his back turned. A quite cunning collaboration of form and function. Like the convex mirror, most of […]
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A little spring inspiration from the beach
The sun is out, the birds are singing and the hedgerows are getting the optimistic green hue of new growth…. ….the air smells of spring and freshly cut grass… and we are loving it! When the warm sun shines, the beach beckons… As always camera out snapping away at the massive bounty of colours, shapes […]
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Happy St Patrick’s Day from Omelo!
This will have you in stitches!
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Hello. Our name’s Omelo and we’re Instagram addicts.
We’re Instagram addicts. There – we’ve said it. With phone cameras giving us such great quality photos, and all the clever photo apps e.g. Snapseed, Dynamic Light, and my two favs Camera+ and Hipstamatic, such addiction is, quite simply, inevitable. Capturing the beauty of nature as it happens, the colours, the shapes, the shades, the […]
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Reflections of a convex mirror maker
First things first “Don’t think too hard!” – that was the advice given to me when I announced I was about to get stuck into my first blog post. Well, no-one can accuse me of thinking too hard when it came to creating Omelo. Let’s just say, it was borne out of necessity. Trying to […]