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Travel Theme; Green
Green is NOT my favourite colour. I may have mentioned this before. However there are some things that do look particularly good in green, mainly flora and some reptiles. Not Barbaras. Barbaras do...
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An Apple Blossom Tree
I brought my camera with me yesterday when taking Wilson for a walk. It was a cold grey Novemberish day, dark clouds, the threat of snow, but I thought if I don’t bring it, I will regret it. At one …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Above
I haven’t participated in the Weekly Photo Challenge for some time, I’ve been busy getting better, and I found the prompts a bit uninspiring, although I could have posted lots of pictures for the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Pattern
This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Pattern, and for me the hardest thing was choosing just one photo, I love patterns, and I am always photographing them I particularly love photographing patterns in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Patterns in Science
This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Pattern. I love finding patterns in things. When I was in University we went to CERN in Switzerland to see the ATLAS particle detector in the Large Hadron Collider...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape
This weeks Weekly Photo Challenge is Escape When I think of escape, I think of the long white beaches of India, the sea that is warm and refreshing, the sun that warms my skin all day long, every day,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape (2)
This has been a busy week! I was working on Saturday, having a go at the garden on Sunday, preparing for Charlotte’s birthday on Monday & Tuesday, working Wednesday, gardening yesterday… I hardly...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Escape this rain!
Today doesn’t feel like summer at all! My daughter is having a sleepover in the garden tonight, but it has hardly stopped raining today so far. I’m not sure should I put the tent up now in the rain or...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Camera’s Eyes
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes Last week I posted a photo that I had taken of a blue Geranium, and I mentioned that this photo was the result of a single shot not the...
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I remember that summer in Dublin
Whenever the sun comes out in Dublin in the summer, and people start taking lunch breaks in the park, this song comes into every Dubliner’s head who was around in the 80′s In the olden days, as my...
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Photography 101: The Fundamentals of Light
Reblogged from The Daily Post: We've talked about the philosophy of photography and offered a two-part overview of the craft, and now we're ready to dig deeper. As Ming Thein discussed in his posts,...
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Gordon & Doris’ Poppies
I love poppies, I always have. I read a book a long long time ago called Mr God this is Anna by Fynn. If you haven’t read it give it a go. I’ve read it several times, and to my … Continue reading →
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The Golden Hour
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The Golden Hour In photography, the “golden hour” is the first and last hour of sunlight of the day. Photographers venture out on sunrise hikes or sunset treks to...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh This week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave here in northern Europe. We haven’t had a good summer in ages, probably since...
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Photography 101: The Quality of Light
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. For me, that is what my camera has been for many years. As a child I wrote a diary, but i would have phases of intense...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh Flowers in my Garden
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh As I said in my last post for this challenge this week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave and nobody is complaining as we have...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Foreshadow
My contribution to this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge; Foreshadow, could better be named ‘Aftershadow’ On our Maiden voyage of our new boat Lady C, our voyage was to bring her from one side of...
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Travel Theme; Wild
This week’s Travel Theme is Wild The word ‘wild’ invokes for me the closing words of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poem ‘Inversnaid’; What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness ? Let them be...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Portrait or Landscape
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. I read this week’s post ‘Finding the Best Shot – Portrait or Landscape‘ and was having a conversation with Jeff Sinon...
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