Category Archives: Photography

My Best Photo of the Week

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Barbara

This is a picture of my daughter Charlotte.  She would like to be a model, so we have started having some photo-shoots.  This photo is Charlotte’s favourite from this session. Thank you so much to WeLiveInaFlat for the challenge 🙂

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge Week 3

Posted on September 29, 2013 by Barbara

Wilson has been getting a lot of airtime recently, so for the third week of Michelle’s weekly pet challenge here is a picture of my very first pet, a beautiful and very large tabby who the girls christened ‘Tiggles’ as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cocker Spaniels, Lilly Plankton, Pets, Photography, Tiggles, Wilson | Tagged , , , , , | 14 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Barbara

I’m not sure if this is the kind of saturated that this week’s photo challenge was about!! Here’s a few more of wet Wilsons…. he likes water.  Click on any of them to see a better picture

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Travel Theme; Multicoloured

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Barbara

I’ve been looking through my photos from our trip to Santorini in 2008 recently and I found a few for the Weekly Photo Challenge; From Lines to Patterns.  Most of the pictures I have from Santorini are of wonderful sunsets, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: From Lines to Patterns

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Barbara

This week’s Weekly Photo challenge is called From Lines to Patterns We see lines and patterns in the world around us, in nature and things man-made. Sometimes we don’t realize they’re there: on the street, across the walls, up in … Continue reading →

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge Week 2

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Barbara

For the second week of Michelle’s weekly pet challenge here is our first photo of Wilson after he arrived home with us. He had just had his cast removed from his leg, so looked very funny with one skinny leg.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

Posted on September 14, 2013 by Barbara

I love this photo It was taken in Lanzarotte, in Cezar Manrique’s house.

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Michelle’s Weekly Pet Challenge

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Barbara

Al’s friend Michelle has just started a weekly pet challenge Always a sucker for any opportunity to post photos of Wilson, here are the photos we took of him the first time we met him!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Barbara

Again the series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling have inspired me to start thinking about this week’s photo challenge, An Unusual POV in advance of the challenge.  I often look at photos taken from strange positions and … Continue reading →

Posted in Boats, Bridges, England, Hayling Island, Langstone, Photography, Summer | Tagged , , , , , , , | 27 Comments

“I heard a massive explosion and I thought it was a cat flap”

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Barbara

Watching the news this evening we had to stop and rewind one particular item a few times as it was about an explosion that happened near a house where we used to live, and for a second we thought it … Continue reading →

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