Category Archives: Seasons

Weekly Photo Challenge: Portrait or Landscape

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Barbara

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 about taking both landscape and portrait … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh Flowers in my Garden

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Barbara

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 had enough of … Continue reading →

Posted in England, Flowers, Gardening, Lilly Plankton, Photography, Summer, Trees | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments

Photography 101: The Quality of Light

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Barbara

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 writing, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Barbara

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 2002, so while the country has … Continue reading →

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I remember that summer in Dublin

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Barbara

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 children say, … Continue reading →

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If you go down to the woods today….

Posted on July 4, 2013 by Barbara

Al’s post about the strange garden he passes on his walks sometimes reminded me of a very strange sight we found a few years back when walking in the woods near Farnham in Surrey

Posted in Art, Autumn, Boats, Dragonflies, Photography, Surrey Hills | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Camera’s Eyes

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Barbara

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 … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Here is a photo from my recent visit to Dublin that I wasn’t expecting to be sharing so soon!  As I mentioned in my post for the photo challenge ‘Fleeting‘ I visited The Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin, with Dad on … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting take 2

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Barbara

Walking on Desborough Island the other day with Wilson, wrapped up in my winter woollies wondering what on earth had happened to our summer (again) my eye was caught by these beautiful delicate blue flowers.  It was windy & cloudy, … Continue reading →

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Barbara

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. … Continue reading →

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