Saw this fella laying on the floor of the Aquarium in the City Museum today. I cheated and waited until Friday, thinking I would get a great ‘Looking Down’ photo at the museum. Alas, that backfired as there were no great shots to be had at all, it was very crowded and very dark in there. That will teach me to rebel won’t it! Next week I will be sure to post Through the Lens Thursday on Thursday. Fancy joining in? The prompt next week is ‘Self’.
This past week I started to fill my album of photos for 2014, I am using Project Life by Becky Higgins photo sleeves and a ring binder to keep them in. I think that this may mean that I am dipping my chilly toes into the world of scrapbooking, but I am mainly using the albums and sleeves for photos and write up about the photos, rather than stickers and stamps and quotes. Of course I can’t promise that I won’t enter the world of stickers and scrapbooking doodads (is that an actual word? I am not sure), but I am thinking I can hold off for now. I have painted a few cards to go with the photos and I am happy with the way it is turning out so far. I will get a few more pages done and I will share them with you. So far here are some of the cards I painted with brush script to go among the photos. The bulbs are starting to peek up through the dead …
Well this prompt threw me a little bit, I thought ‘door’ would be easy peasy, but I clearly over-estimated the local door population. Dull dull doors as far as the eye can see. If I was in the village I grew up in, there would have been the church doors, many of interest, stable doors on the local farm, heck some of the residential doors are old and interesting. Alas, no cool doors around here, so I plumped for my shed door adorned with toys which I used for my little toy post yesterday. I think it needs a lick of paint…. Of course, now I will be spotting interesting doors left and right! Got any interesting doors near you? What about a trap door? How cool would that be! Thanks again for the prompt Alison and Greta who invented Through the Lens Thursday to challenge everyone’s manual camera techniques.
I have ended up with a little collection of little toys. I never intended to collect toys, I haven’t consciously collected anything since I was a kid when I collected stamps and rocks and postcards among other things. Nowadays I tend towards gathering rather than conscious ‘collecting’, I gather buttons to use in jewelry and some special ones are kept for just gazing at. I gather stamps off letters and parcels which are pretty or interesting. Unfortunately stamps are few and far between, but I do like to cut off a special edition stamp with a date franked on it, especially from a parcel which has a ton of stamps on it! I have a few vintage postcards and am always on the lookout for more, but I wouldn’t call my little pile of cards a collection. The toys I have do follow a theme in that they are all small, the biggest among them is a vintage wooden soldier I found at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History’s flea market last summer while …
This past week saw a couple of very nice sunny warm days which was a very nice peek at Spring. The garlic is growing healthy green shoots and the bulbs are starting to come through. The rest of the week was pretty chilly though. Here are last week’s photos, starting with a funny doggy face! He was barking to get me to throw his ball when I snapped this. I took a few photos for a post I wrote earlier last week, but here is a photo I didn’t use which shows the vintage tray off. It poured with rain one night and in the morning everything was damp, but not soaked. I spotted this solitary leaf with it’s load of raindrops so I got a picture. When I went back later in the afternoon, it was still there, with just a few less drops, so I got an update! I took this photo of the sun behind clouds behind the magnolia tree. Then I mixed it in with a photo I had taken of …
This was the hardest theme yet, I don’t have a very high ISO option on my camera – 1600, so couldn’t take much at all in the dark! I considered using some artistic license and finding a ‘dark’ object and photographing that, but I wanted to try and figure out how to get a photo in the actual dark. I ended up taking a photo of me taking a photo (!?) reflected in the back door with the dark outside. It was a bit (ok, a lot) wobbly, but I don’t hate it. I quite like that the wall outside and the bare trees are in there as well as the door and the dark outside. The second photo was taken this morning when it wasn’t pitch dark, but shadowy enough to need a high ISO so I could practice and get the photo in focus at least! I like this photo best even though I didn’t take it in full ‘dark’. Thanks to Alison at Writing Wishing and Greta at GFunkified for pushing me …
There goes February, a short month and a chilly one too, we had snow and ice and rain and sunshine. Hopefully March will bring Spring out from hiding behind Winter. Come on out Spring, we are all friendly and can’t wait to see you! Here are my daily photo offerings for February, I follow the prompts supplied by lovely Chantelle at Fat Mum Slim. 1. You. Circa 1984, in a homemade and dyed dress. 2. Favourite. Finding old beads and charms to make into something. 3. Something Orange 4. Childhood 5.Square 6. C is for ….meow 7. Utensil 8. Water 9. Details. 10. I am…. 11. Mistake. Walking on that ice would be. 12. Out + About. Detail of a local bridge. 13. Perfect. The perfect Valentine’s haul from school. 14. Heart 15. My drink of choice. Homemade frothy coffee. 16. Create 17. Vegetable. Pom pom carrot! 18. Magic. First flower on the Rosemary. 19. Feet 20. Peace 21. Funny. This guy. 22. An act of Kindness 23. This where I relax 24. Half 25. …
This week’s theme for Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Hands’. Not an easy one to be honest as the only hands I have here are mine (apart from toy hands I suppose). So, out comes the tripod and some trial and error with the self timer! I snapped this one, then cropped and black and whited it in Snapseed on the iPad. I like to look at my photos on the iPad as the screen is nice and big and I can see what is in focus or not and I can play with apps on there too. I know, I need to practice Photoshop, it is on my list! I took this photo on the porch in the freezing cold, with the timer set to take seven continuous photos in the hope I would get one. I took a few groups of seven and got one in the end! The bracelets and necklace in my hands are new at CatsEatDogs and I love them for spring and summer. Layered up your wrists, they add …
Purple was the colour of the week last week in the #colorcolour project thanks to the great minds of Hula Seventy and Xanthe Berkeley. It is amazing what you spot when you are looking out for a specific colour. I though I would find nothing at all purple, even though I walk past the purple wall at the YMCA nearly every day! Purple flowers were in my Valentine’s bunch and I love violet sweeties. I took the photos of Pablo with my Canon and I like the way they have captured him, especially when he kicks up the ground behind him like he is ready to race! I started a granny square using Pip’s beginner video (still not finished it, but I will and I will be sure to share my crochet triumph!) Mr Y and I went out with the metal detector into the deepest woods yesterday looking for treasure. We found some old rusty nails, a couple of bottle caps and some bugs hiding from the cold. Better luck next …
This week’s theme thought up by the fab ladies behind Through the Lens Thursday is ‘Window’, so here is one of mine. We have some very cool stained glass windows in our house and the sun gleams in through them creating lots of lovely colours and effects. I took some photos and edited them, then looked up and saw the sun highlighting the central blue and greens, so I snapped a few more and ended up with this photo. The glass colour and the sunshine work together to develop a sunset effect which is lovely and changes every few minutes while the sun is peeking through.
Clare Davis Etheridge 