Camera Experiments: Caves

 

The problem came when trying to balance that flash with the low level light, and getting a decent picture: These ones turned out ok!

From my holiday to Crete.



Camera Experiments: Pylons

 

The large, imposing structures of telegraph pylons on our landscape..... Strangely beautiful... Eerily cold and unfeeling.

 

The fear of walking under one as thunder rolls behind you.

Oh what we do for art.



Camera Experiments: Saturation

 

Would you actually believe that these are dandelion seed heads? Well, you should. Don't they look awesome?! I used Microsoft Picture Manager to saturate the colour, increase the contrast, then repeat for desired effect. My favourite is the top one as it still looks fluffy. I think that they look like mini fireworks actually, don't you?



Camera Experiments: Summer Picnic



A forest, a river,good friends and lots of good food. The perfect afternoon.

Camera Experiments: Blurred

 

I call this one: 'Wave the Camera around in front of the Bookcase and see what happens'

 

I quite like it.



Camera Experiments: Freesias

 

 

Using just a standard Digital Camera, it is still possible to take some gorgeous photographs. I like to get so close to the flowers that the lens is almost touching them. The trouble is, I'm addicted to taking photographs,but I don't know what to do with them. They store up on my computer, endless reams of pixellated objects, most of them a little dodgy - I have many more of these freesias, just not as nice, in my opinion -  that I don't know what to do with them.

 

It also doesn't help that I have a dreadful printer, that prints lines of ink in varying thicknesses across the page. Works brilliantly for essays,but is awful for pictures, which means they are stuck on my computer until I have a sufficient need to use them.

 

Perhaps I should scrapbook them?

 

Or use them to make Notecards?

 

There are probably tonnes of tutorials across the interweb, but I can't seem to find any at the moment that don't involve merely putting them in a frame.

 

Challenge accepted.

 

And is instagram only for Smart phone photos? (because I still carry a brick. I throw it at the floor and can reassemble it and turn it back on. Yup. It's one of those)



Two Jumpers North

We spent the Easter Weekend in North Yorkshire, with some old family friends. It was gorgeous.

 

It involved:

 

Harry Potter References!

Pretty Villages!

 



A baby Pineapple!

 

Making cake!

 

Seeing one of my felt hearts 'en situe'!

Knitting (products to be accounted for later)!

And the prettiest, cosiest house I ever did see!

I wish I could crochet blankets.

 

Alas, I did not steal a blanket, but I did get some very nice fudge and a pretty tweed notebook - plain pages too! I loved it up there. Although chilly,and hilly, it has the charm and intrigue of somewhere new to explore....

 



Camera Experiments: Life in January

Out and around in the garden, searching for all things green...There isn't much,but it gave me practice with my zoom!

This time of year can seem so miserable, we have to look for the little things to make you smile... just like these little green shoots in our garden.

I hope you're having a good day, and if not, go and find those green shoots!



Camera Experiments: Twelfth Night

I never got around to showing you Christmas in my house. We love Christmas. Everything is sparkly and there isn't a room left untouched- we even wrapped tinsel around the shower rail this year! These are just a few glimpsed pictures of our tree as we packed it away, wrapping each of the baubles and decorations up carefully for next year. Some of these in particular, I wouldn't mind using as Christmas cards next year, experimenting with photo's on cards.

What makes Christmas so magical, to me at least, is the look on people's faces as they unwrap a handmade gift, or open a handcrafted card. Their faces light up with the realisation of the time and care it must have taken and they look at it in a completely different light than they did before. I gave felt hearts to most of my friends at school, and they spent the rest of the day with them tied around their necks by the wool I wrapped them in tissue paper with. It made me feel so proud that I had made so many people happy because of something that took me barely a quarter of an hour to make. What's funny though,I don't know anybody else of my age that makes gifts, at least, not at my school(s, if we're counting my previous one). Maybe I'm a bit strange in that way. But that's something I can live with. If I can make other people happy, I'm happy.