My love of tentacles is no secret around here so you won’t be surprised to see me gushing over these wee tentacle pots. They’re made by one of my favourite internet friends, Erika Moen. She also shares the tentacle affinity and when I saw her make one of these pots after she finished this cephalopony, I very unsubtly begged her to sell some.

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one asking and soon enough she had them in her etsy store where they never lasted much longer than a few hours. I’d planned to take them out to the beach and put them in their element for a miniature shoot before they even landed in my post box; I just had to wait for the unpredictable Vancouver weather to calm down.

So here you go! My tentacle obsession will probably have no end, and thanks to Erika these little guys now sit on my desk. Product photography has shifted in the past few years with more being photographed in appropriate surroundings with a creative twist that was sometimes passed up in order to get a crystal clear and detailed photo. Some of this may have to do with the handmade movement that’s snowballing the internet, who knows. It might just be as simple as people expecting photography to have an artistic edge that was only really used by top design houses in the past. It’s definitely an inspiring part of the industry these days. I remember picking up magazines when I was in Japan in 2004 and dreaming that western magazines had as varied and beautiful photography on their pages, and in 2010 it’s becoming much more common.