Dear Cee
How on earth did you know I had just taken this photo?
If you go down to the pond today….
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 am back in bed recovering from another sinus Operation and therefore getting time to sort through my photos and catch up with some of my favourite challenges. I couldn’t believe it when I clicked on yours for this week Cee! Continue reading
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!
View from 500m up Ben Lomomd
The view from the top is of Queesntown, Lake Wakitipu, and of ‘The Remarkables’ an imposing range of mountains featured in The Lord of the Rings as the slopes of Dimrill Dale, which Aragorn leads he fellowship to Lothlorien after the Mines of Moria.
Having climbed 500m up, we decided to reward ourselves with some delicious cake… and a walk back down! We did get fit in New Zealand!!
Next time we are there we have promised ourselves a trip on the Gondola. Not however for the reasons that Peter’s son Damien & his girlfriend use it! They take a trip up the Gondola with their Mountain Bikes, before riding down a 600m drop on purpose built forested cycle tracks back to town! Continue reading
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 top 10 favourite books let alone my favourite!
One that regularly pops to the top of my list is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig I don’t have a good motorbike picture, but I do have a picture of a lovely vase I saw in the art gallery of Norwich University last weekend
I have no idea why this picture fits, but it feels like it does. maybe it’s because I love the blue colour so much?
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 doing a photography class, and I have been challenged to step out of Auto and experiment with my camera. Black and white, long exposures, portraits, fine art…. all photographs that I am less likely to take… I like landscapes
The last 3 weeks we were working on portraits, indoor and out, and our challenge this week was to prepare a self portrait (NOT a selfie!) in black and white with some red in it
A good few people in the class have sat or stood in front of the camera… but I’m not good at staying still, so here’s my homework submission:
I got up very early to take this photo so nobody would see my antics…. the out-takes would make a very funny gallery 🙂 I’m wearing my graduation dress with my wedding underskirt, and was doing barefoot twirls… I started doing cartwheels, but I got tired too quickly before I worked out my positioning so had to change to twirling instead!
I will be submitting this one for my homework….. which one should I send to Leanne?
Auburn
I entered the Totally Thames Photo Competition with this photo & I won one of the runner-up prizes 🙂
Canoeing on the Thames at Sunset (F2.8, ss 1/250, ISO 640)
I liked this one for the reflections on the water. I’m very Chuffed!
Here is the link to the website: Totally Thames Photo Competition
I forgot! This is the London Eye 🙂 not everyone will know that, sorry. Looking forward to taking some good photos from the top
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! Continue reading
Any excuse to include a picture of Wilson! This Week’s Photo Challenge; Dreamy
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!
A small waterfall at Silent Pool near Guildford (F5, ISO 100, SS 0.5 sec)
On Auto, my camera would have taken a very clear picture of the water at a high shutter speed and every drop would have been in high definition. I wanted to learn how to take a photo where the water is blurred, but I’ve been scared to put my camera into ‘Manual’ mode and work out what I needed to do! Continue reading
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.
I expect that they sell good fruit
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 year explains the symptoms and treatment options
Photograph: Martin Godwin/Guardian
You would be hard-pressed to slip a cigarette paper between my half-sister and me. Both aged about 50, both a healthy weight and both pretty fit. Last winter our periods went a bit haywire, and we each reluctantly approached our GPs with questions about the menopause and fibroids. My half-sister needed a D&C (a minor surgical procedure to remove tissue from the lining of the womb). I was diagnosed with locally advanced cancer of the womb. Continue reading
Day One 