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!

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a week of images......

This week I turned off auto focus for the first time. I think this shot was a fluke because I had no idea what I was doing. There were no lights or re-assuring whirr of the autofocus, just myself and the lens.  This is what I wanted it to look like but I'm not sure how I did it.

I loved this scene in the park. I didn't want to get too close. It was such a brave idea for a March birthday. I was wishing for the sun for them. I love the girl in her pink party dress, greeting her guests. 

Light breaking through the clouds on the common. Sometimes I can see the rain coming in across the valley and have to run!

This yellow door. I parked my car in town and went back to get this shot. I love the colour. It's actually a therapy centre. I'm noticing so much more suddenly about my home town. This could become an 'appreciate where I live project'.

I think this is Honeysuckle. It was sweet smelling and I spotted my first Bee of the year there. I like the road signs and the gates and light at the end.

The silvery grey and brown of these Catkins against the Cotswold stone of the Musuem in the park. 

The green of the paint jumped out at me and the bike!

I like this street scene a lot. I like the blue sign, and then all the other signs and signals off down the street, and the passerby. These are very different kinds of photos for me to take. Town and people really calls right now, it feels exciting and different for me, to be seeing things this way. 

Red. Sign. Great message to find in the street in the street.

Playing with marbles. I like the light on the marbles and the colour and shape of the jug they are in. 

This little dog. Contemplating her next jump. I love the colour and light on the water. And yes she did get wet. I looked around to take another photo and there was a splash.  

Flattened glass I found in the carpark. I thought it was dazzling and had the texture I was looking for.

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All these shots are from the Photo Meditations course I'm taking with Susannah Conway.
You can see more on flickr.

Off to take some more! I love it. See you soon.

♥

A week of images

I feel a little like a hamster in a wheel right now....trying to keep things moving. Family, home, hearth, self, photo course, keeping up the different balls. It's not always possible, but I'm having go. I am feeling a surge of creative energy although it's not quite spring yet, the urge to get productive and to be out there using my camera.

I am enjoying my photo meditation course. I just love flickr. I'm not sure if I've ever told you that. The images I get to see, and all the inspiration on there. I follow people there who I think I may not have discovered otherwise. Folks with a visual love of life. I have a stream of favourite images. Creativity plays a big part, often in the shot as well as subject. The inspiration bounces back and forth. I can notice where the seed for an idea was sown as I look back through. You don't need to be a pro. Anyone can join and showcase up to 200 of their images without subscribing.

So these are some of my images on flickr from last week. On the course we have been considering the basics, angles, groupings, rule of thirds, negative space and so on. With the premise that once we know the rules we can break them. Yay!

I'll let the images speak for themselves because they are just everyday things. I'm just noticing in a new way ♥

On my flickr photostream you will find more information about each image. Hope there's a good week out there for you, roll on spring days, that's what I say!

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