If you are serious about photography, you seriously need this toy.

Gorillapods are a fantastic innovation that allows you to take clear pictures from a stable platform wherever you are. You simply mount your camera onto the Gorillapod via the standard screw in base, and then twist the legs into whatever position fits your shot. You can use it as a tripod, you can clamp it onto a railing, in fact you can contort it in just about any way you want!

Colleen has even been known to use Gorilla pods for odd uses, such clamping LED light panels to the lighting grid in Leo's studio, or hanging her webcam from the rafters while building computers.

The SLR-Zoom gorilla pod is the heavy-duty version, that can hold up even heavy SLR cameras with large aftermarket lenses, though there are smaller versions available for smaller cameras as well.

Get yourself a Gorilla pod, and get that difficult shot in perfect clarity.