26.3.15

a week of images.....

Here I am back with some more images of the last week. I'm on week four now of my course photo meditations. Yesterday I couldn't stop taking photos, every where I looked. Which was nice after experiencing a kind of lull for a few days. I just need to edit them and load them flickr. It feels like a photo journal really, and I really like that concept.


Rather large hailstones the other day. No sooner had a put my winter coat in the washing machine, the skies opened up and did this. Like marbles, spitting out from the sky, such a weird and unusual sight.


A quick re-wind back to Friday's eclipse. This was the sky for me just as it began. The air was beginning to cool. I was on my front door step. The view of the sun was clear, although it doesn't show that here. I was sitting on the bench out front with my son who was saying, 'why are you whispering!' and I was saying, 'because it's exciting!'. 


And this was just after, as the eclipse was finishing. Up on the common. I loved seeing these guys in their full eclipse watching mode. One guy was sitting on the bonnet, leaning back against the window screen, wearing his eclipse glasses, entranced.


And this, well selfie project! I decided I liked black and white better, and a crop! It's actually been quite an interesting project, seeing yourself from different angles. I thought I would hate it but even the ones I'm not showing here have kind of grown on me. I think it's a way of connecting to yourself, even the uncomfortable bits. And I also somehow think I am looking for new bits too.


I love these pictures of where I live. On instagram I am doing a little series called #appreciatingwhereilive. It really is a quirky little town, and this course is helping me to see it with new eyes.

   
I still take many photos up here on the common. I feel like it's one of my statement photos. The thing I do over and over! This was in the mist and of course I've used a filter here. I love the colour and the silver birch, one of my favourite trees seems to grow on it's own up here.


I took this shot in the town because I loved the red bricks, which reminded me of the house I grew up in. Although it wasn't a Victorian house it was a red brick house. I remember the drive way where I used to whack a tennis ball against the wall over and over. No x-box then. There's something very familiar and safe about those bricks. 


Back at home in my kitchen, I realize multi-colour rules the day again. I have plans to paint my kitchen, but other things are calling more so that will have to wait. 
It's nice to 'share' my photos here, hope you don't mind. See you again soon!



14 comments:

  1. I love your hailstones picture

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  2. I agree with you that hailstones are very strange phenomena. Somehow they don't seem possible...and yet they are. Your photograph definitely captures that mystery.

    Please do keep showing us your phtographs. I like the vistas and the close up views. And, I'm a big fan of brick walls, no matter what the colors of the bricks. I think it's the pattern of the brick laying and the subtle colors of the materials.

    xo

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    1. Thank you Frances, it's a little off at a tangent maybe but I'm really enjoying these posts. x

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  3. I love your post Heather, your photos are great and I love the way your words bring them to life.
    Jacquie x

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  4. For various reasons I think that these are all fab shots, A great post Heather. And I love your little town. I know it quite well. My mother lived there for a few years before she met and married my father and we would visit her friends there when we were children. And one of my husband's aunts and his cousin and her family live there. You may even know his cousin, she's one of the local dentists.

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  5. Lovely photos - the hail stones are massive! Well done on the selfie task, I know I'd find that hard (impossible). Whispering during the eclipse sounds sensible to me!

    Have a great weekend. :)

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  6. I love to see your happenings in pictures.
    You should have seen the hailstones when I lived in Italy! From cherry to plum-size! That year they destroyed my whole garden.
    xoxo

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  7. Lovely images! I've always wanted to take a photography course but, as usual, time is a premium here, too, with 3 small kids, a hubby and a job. I am a teacher so maybe I should make it a priority during the summer. Until then, I'll have to learn from you!
    Your newest follower, Bronwyn
    www.queenbcreativeme.blogspot.

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  8. Great pictures - I love your selfies. Your course sounds really interesting and I like the idea of your 'appreciating where I live' project.

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  9. I love the things you have found here, the selfies, the appreciating where you live, and that blue door with the red brick is great! I remember playing tennis up against my wall when I lived with my parents, my palms used to red raw at the end of it :-) Have a great week. x

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  10. The weather is fast becoming a source of my frustration at the moment. Just when I've figured it out I either get drenched to the skin or am so hot I feel like I'll pass out. x

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  11. Beautiful images, I can see you're enjoying the course, Susannah is quite inspirational isn't she. I love that bookshop too, I quite often go there and I've got the odd photo of the building as well.

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  12. Hello love, more great shots, you must be enjoying your course with Susannah. I'm thinking about whether to do her April Love thingy, I quite like doing the photo challenges on instagram but find them a wee bit stressful because I actually have to think!! :) I just stalked you on instagram to find out where you live (so stalky), what a lovely part of the world, I've never been but I've heard it's lovely...xxx

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    1. I hadn't considered doing the photo challenge on instagram. I'll have a think but it may too much on top of her course! x

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