365 Project – Day 138
My Better Half. Stuart – always ready with a gorgeous smile and a flash of those blue eyes for me. Love him to bits, so he definitely has to feature … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 137
Vernalagnia. (n.) a romantic mood brought on by spring…. also known as Spring Fever! (I am enjoying the challenge of doing more self-portraits – and then finding appropriate titles for … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 136
God and His ‘Photoshop Smudge Tool’. Untouched, unedited, uncropped… this is just how it was a few minutes ago when hubby and I walked around the reservoir. And YES … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 135
City Living. After watching Iron Man 3 (excellent film! I am a hopeless Iron Man addict!), I was sitting outside the pizza shop, waiting for hubby, the boys and their … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 134
Photobombing Cat. I was out for a walk and spotted this pretty little gate – you couldn’t get to the gate for all the weeds and overgrown grass in front … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 132
A Close Shave. It was Middle-earth Weekend at Sarehole Mill this weekend in Birmingham. We popped over this afternoon… surrounded by hobbits, magicians, dragons… and RAIN! Reece was away at … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 131
A Break Between Studies. Reece is studying hard for his GCSE exams – first one on Tuesday: Physics, Paper One. He doesn’t need prompting or prodding, he just gets on … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 130
PENSIVE… Does anyone enjoy doing self-portraits? I didn’t particularly, but I am having fun working on the skill, and slowly starting to actually enjoy it too! This was taken in … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 129
Those creases must be SHARP! Inspection happening at Air Cadets tonight, so my youngest son is having lessons from his older brother on how to get that ‘knife sharp edge’ … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 128
Save the Red Cross. The word for today was Red Cross… I spent the whole day trying to figure out what I could shoot as I hadn’t done a word … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 127
I’ve been in the garden today… and everywhere I look, in my garden, the neighbour’s garden… in fact, the entire Grove, I can see the bright yellow of Dandelions. And … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 126
Finding the sun in Wales. NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 100, f/3.8, 1/800sec NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 100, f/4.2, 1/800sec ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ And a bonus Family … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 124
On The Beach NIKON D7000 50mm f/1.8 ISO 100, f/3.5, 1/1000sec
365 Project – Day 123
I said: “Keep Out!”, but you just didn’t care! NIKON D7000 50mm f/1.8 ISO 100, f/1.8, 1/60sec
365 Project – Day 122
Classic Curves. NIKON D7000 50mm f/1.8 ISO 100, f/1.8, 1/8000sec
365 Project – Day 121
In Loving Memory of Elizabeth Colley. 17th October 1930 – 14th April 2013 Yvonne, a dear colleague and friend from work, lost her Mom a few days ago. Today was … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 120 [and April's Family Photo]
Coffee, Cake and Cameras. I had the pleasure of meeting a fellow photographer from the 365 site I’m on. She’s also a Caffe Nero regular and so we arranged to … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 119
New Life at the Ruins – a Grade I Listed building. There are different types of listed status for buildings in England and Wales: Grade I: buildings of exceptional interest, … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 118
Visual Instructions on dealing with Pesky Speed Cameras. Have you ever felt like doing THIS to the speed camera you keep getting caught at? Well, someone obviously got slightly angry … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 117
A Vivian Maier Lesson no. 2 Learnt: Take Self-Portraits – they tell YOUR story! NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 1000, f/4, 1/60sec
365 Project – Day 116
A Vivian Maier Lesson Learnt: Tell a story in your frame. The building site is ‘No Entry’, but these little girls smuggled their way inside and spent ages throwing all … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 115
Supporting Local Enterprise. That loaf in the middle, a delicious, large, multi-grain, sourdough loaf of bread, is the loaf I chose this evening when I attended the local Bearwood Pantry. … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 114
That Hat. NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 500, f/5.6, 1/400sec
365 Project – Day 113
Today I went down to the skate/bike area at Lightwoods Park on the Hagley Road (the main road running into Birmingham). On warm afternoons (and some not so warm afternoons), … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 112
Fence Swinging. Kids will find anywhere and everywhere to play. These are a couple of little girls who live a few doors down from us, who have found that if … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 111
I was invited to take some photographs at a Teddy Bear’s Picnic party this afternoon. Little Ivy is turning two, and her Mom organised a party in Warley Woods for … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 110
Travellers. Thank you to Laurie from Bearwood for contacting me to do this photoshoot today, and for being such a great sport to include my ‘word of the day’ in … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 109
Silence. The word for today, was SILENCE. I went for a walk along one of the canals, trying to find a scene that would ‘speak’ silence to the viewer… … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 108
It’s Sunny by the Lake. NIKON D7000 50mm f/1.8 ISO 100, f/2.8, 1/1000sec
365 Project – Day 107
Birmingham Cityscape. NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 100, f/3.8, 1/800sec The tower blocks break the skyline, But below them is the hustle of the street, Back alley ways and … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 106
‘Urban Decay’ NIKON D7000 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6 ISO 1600, f/5.3, 1/1600sec
365 Project – Day 105
Of All The People In All The World My boys and I went into the city centre this afternoon… to the sixth floor in Two Snowhill (right next to Snow … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 104
I went to the Woods with my hubby this afternoon with the intention of doing a totally different shoot which involved trees, sunlight…. bubbles, rainbows on bubbles! Great fun, that’s … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 103
I was contacted by the Golf Manager at Warley Woods Community Trust this week, and she invited me, as part of my 365 project, to do a photoshoot at the … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 102
iT’s A sPriNgY tHiNgY The word for today was Spring, so instead of being ‘obvious’, and photographing the Spring Season [or lack thereof], I found this spring lying around in … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 101
Today’s challenge word, was PORTRAIT; so I took a photo of my eldest son… and turned this: …into this: Be happy…. wear a smile…. not because life is full of reasons … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 100
I’ve reached Day 100 in my 365 project. I’d like to welcome all my new blog followers – your support is so encouraging… every time I receive a comment or … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 99
Word of the Day: New Life “When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 98
I dropped the kids off in Stirchley so they could go ten-pin bowling with some friends. I then passed away the time by driving around the area to places I’d … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 97
As you may have read in the last few posts, I recently advertised my 365 Project on the local Bearwood Facebook page, inviting any local folk who’d like to be … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 96
What a Fine, Fine Day for a Wedding Remember the BLOGPOST where I told you about my advertisement on the local FB page for my 365 Project? Well, the lovely bride … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 95
Label-4-April word of the day: Stained Glass NIKON D7000 50mm f1.8 ISO 200, f/1.8 1/80sec
365 Project – Day 94
I advertised my 365 Project on the local town’s FB page, and said that if anyone would like to be involved, I’d be more than happy to do a photoshoot … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 93
Editing The Soul Out Of It Hubby lit some candles in the kitchen this evening; when I came downstairs, it looked really pretty, so I took out the camera and … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 92
Near the South African War Memorial Statue in Cannon Hill Park, I came across these huge fluted garden pedestals. I loved the patterns on them and how odd, and … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 91
No Swinging Today Well, April has begun, but I can’t tear myself away from the black and white/monotones…. I’ve fallen head-over-heels in love! So… I’ll continue, with a little colour … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 90
Opera in the Thinktank My family and I spent the afternoon at Birmingham’s Thinktank at the Millenium Centre. An opera/theatre company were performing and invited any of the public who … Continue reading
365 Project – Day 89 [and March's Family Photo]
Man and His Dog Taken in Warley Woods… one man was walking across the field with his dog, I loved the peace and calm of this shot… the clouds … Continue reading
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