If my employers ever get anywhere near this gallery and associate it with me I'm probably screwed already. However I remain convinced that the fact that I haven't been so far (the way many of my erstwhile colleagues have been) is merely a timing issue anyway. So in for a penny and all that.

I was on leave this day. Why? Well... I had been approached by another company about a role that they had open. And frankly it was intriguing. It would have been a monumental challenge and they would have needed someone with a pretty severe set of skills to pull it off. And while I don't strut around crying "I Am The Greatest!" I know what I can do poorly (swimming, running, kicking a soccer ball although I'm getting way better at that), what I can do adequately with the occasional flash of talent (such as photography), and what I absolutely rock at, and this job fell into the latter category. This shot was taken at lunch before I went down for a chat with the head of the department that was interested in me. I was playing around with various AV settings and seeing what I got for DOF, bearing in mind that I come from a Canon background and DOF is a somewhat different beast when you go to a micro 4/3rds sensor.

And if I may say so, the 12-40 Pro did a very nice job here for a non-Macro lens in my opinion.

So why am I not at that new job? Because the way the whole thing was structured politically (sigh, it's always politics...) it would have been impossible for me to actually do the job. All I could do is advise the development team. (A contracting firm which obviously benefit from keeping in-house talent at arm's length to increase the firm's dependency on them.) It would be like a gun thoracic surgeon sitting in the OR observation deck and sending occasional notes down with the theatre nurse and hoping that someone down there is listening.

It would, in short, have ended up giving me a stress-derived embolism. Accordingly I really couldn't do anything but decline, not that it had formally been offered to me anyway.

If they just turned me loose on it though... boy it was a tempting project. And I thought that the date might have been somewhat prophetic since in this part of the world it's the anniversary of Neil Armstrong's "One Small Step". Alas, it was not to be.