Author Archives: Barbara

About Barbara

Born in Dublin, living in London with Peter, and our dogs Woody and Lilly

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bare Feet

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Barbara

Dear Cee How on earth did you know I had just taken this photo? I haven’t been able to blog for quite a while, I’ve hardly been able to keep up with the Weekly Photo Challenges, but this week I … Continue reading →

Posted in Fish, Gardening | Tagged bare feet, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Crocs, Flip Flops, goo, Muddy toes, thongs | 16 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Descent

Posted on November 1, 2014 by Barbara

On our first day in Queenstown, New Zealand, we climbed 500m of Ben Lomond the Mountain which rises behind Queenstown, with the intention of taking the Gondola down again! The view from the top is of Queesntown, Lake Wakitipu, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cycling, New Zealand, Photography, Queenstown | Tagged Ben Lomond, Descent, Extreme, Gondola, Lake Wakatipu, Mountain Bikes, Mountain Biking, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge | 6 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cover Art

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Barbara

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge asks us to consider Cover Art: Take your favourite album, book, magazine, or show and choose the image that best represents the selected work. What is my favourite book? It’s hard to decide what are my … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books, Photography | Tagged Blue, Cover Art, Favourite Book, Robert M. Pirsig, The Daily Post, University of East Anglia, Weekly Photo Challenge, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | 5 Comments

Monochrome Madness, a Photography Challenge from Leanne Cole

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Barbara

Leanne has set up a really popular Photo Challenge, already in week 35, and I joined it a few weeks ago by sending her my photo, but I forgot to do a post about it too! Silly me. I’ve been … Continue reading →

Posted in Happiness, Photography | Tagged Black and White, Leanne Cole, Monochrome Madness, Photography Challenge, photography class, Self Portrait, Selfie | 7 Comments

My Photo won me some tickets on the London Eye!

Posted on October 28, 2014 by Barbara

I entered the Totally Thames Photo Competition with this photo & I won one of the runner-up prizes 🙂 I liked this one for the reflections on the water. I’m very Chuffed! Here is the link to the website: Totally … Continue reading →

Posted in Boats, Bridges, London, Photography, Sunsets, Water, Weybridge | Tagged Canoeing, Desborough Cut, Desborough Island, Photographic Competition, The London Eye, The Millennium Wheel, The River Thames, Totally Thames | 6 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Barbara

I have posted this photo before, but when I went to look for it, the photo is not the same version. I took this picture through a car window in a downpour so heavy I wouldn’t even open the window!

Posted in Devon, Photography, Summer, Travel, Water | Tagged August Bank Holiday, Combe Martin, Holidays, Rain, Refraction, Summer 2012 England, Sunflowers, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge | 3 Comments

Another type of ‘Dreamy’

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Barbara

Any excuse to include a picture of Wilson! This Week’s Photo Challenge; Dreamy

Posted in Cocker Spaniels, Photography, Wilson | Tagged dreamy, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge | 5 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Dreamy

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Barbara

I’ve only just learned how to do this on my camera…. take a photo of running water and make it look all steamy and blurred! On Auto, my camera would have taken a very clear picture of the water at … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Surrey Hills, Water | Tagged dreamy, ISO, running water, shutter speed, Silent Pool, slow shutter speed, Taking my camera off 'Auto', The Daily Post, Waterfall, Weekly Photo Challenge | 3 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Signs

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Barbara

I posted a sign from New Zealand before: Weekly Photo Challenge; Letters Here are some more I found there for this week’s photo challenge.

Posted in New Zealand, Photography, Travel | Tagged Fruit, Level Crossing, Paradise, Signs, The Daily Post, Weekly Photo Challenge | 2 Comments

Womb cancer: the most common diagnosis you’ve never heard of

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Barbara

An article from The Guardian, on Sunday 21 September 2014 by Daloni Carlisle Womb cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women, yet there is very little awareness about it. One woman who was diagnosed with the disease last … Continue reading →