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Through The Lens Thursday 45. Stripes.

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  I had a few ideas for this week’s Through The Lens Thursday, but I settled on the stripes I have been painting like a stripe obsessive for a class I am doing though Studio Calico.  The class is called ‘Paint. Plan. Play.’ and is instructed by Ashley Goldberg.  I am looking forward to learning lots and maybe branching out from stripes.  I seem to like the stripes though…. To make these I used a sumi paint brush and black gouache.  I love to use the sumi brushes, but I do see a trip to the art supply store in my near future to widen my brush repertoire. I really like to paint but I don’t.  Do you have something which eludes you like this?  Every time I get the brushes out I love it, I am no artist, but I would like to do more and try and get a bit better.  Paint and colour and shapes, love it all! I just want to grab a pack of blank cards and paint paint paint, …

Through The Lens Thursday #44. Play.

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  Today was the Halloween parade at school, so a chance to play at being someone else!  The kids were Ninja Turtles, bank robbers, soldiers, Hobbit characters, rock stars and every character from Minecraft. The parade goes in a square on the roads around the school led by the local police which is very cool for the kids, they love it! Today’s Through the Lens Thursday was ‘Play’, so I snapped the legs and feet of some of the Halloween characters as they passed me by. Have a happy and safe Halloween night tomorrow.

Through The Lens Thursday #43. Sweet.

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  Sweet.  These teeny tiny dolls are the sweetest thing ever.  Getting them to stand up was quite a task though, one stands up, two stand up then I get the third one to stand up and number one falls.  It took a few minutes!  I have a whole tub of these cuties but I couldn’t persuade more than three to stand nicely at the same time. I am really pleased with the way the sunlight just catches the blonde doll’s hair and gives it a little sparkle. Thanks as always to the creators of Through the Lens Thursday, Greta of Gfunkified and Alison of Writing Wishing who is back after having gorgeous twins.  Welcome back Alison!

Through The Lens Thursday #42. From the Ground.

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For this week’s Through The Lens Thursday prompt I decided to take some photos ‘From the Ground’ looking up and ‘From the Ground’ looking along the aforementioned ground. This tree has been gradually getting more and more yellow for the past couple of weeks and as it is the only tree which is changing colour so dramatically in it’s area, it is positively glowing.  As we pop out of the woods on our way to school, it almost creates it’s own light as we walk under it. So, I got down to the ground and rested my camera in the leaves pointing up, and snapped a few pictures of our lovely glowing tree.  The sun came out today after a week’s absence, so that helped too. I took this photo on the way back to the Metro Link train station after picking up some magazines from the international newsagent.  ‘Frankie’ issue 61 (yes we are two behind, it’s a scandal!) and ‘Kerrang!’ magazine for my teen, in case you are interested in my magazine choice. …

Through the Lens Thursday #41 Deception

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  Well this was a hard one.  Deception.  Not really sure what to photo for it.  So I took myself out in the gloom and the rain to see what I could see. I decided that the arrows on the trail could be deceptive.  I mean, which way to go?  Follow or not?  Why so many arrows? The reflections on the black path looked a little eerie and dark, invoking the idea of possible deception. Sometimes reflections of the trees in puddles make it look like they go on forever, downwards.  Deceptive.  Be careful not to step in those puddles…   I put some film into my Minolta 35mm camera this week and I am planning to use that on manual too, so I will continue to learn as I shoot some film.  There are a couple of lenses with it too, so I am looking forward to using them.  The first thing I will learn is to plan the photo and not take a bazillion photos to get one shot.  I see note taking …

Sparkle. Through The Lens Thursday #40.

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Today I had lost my sparkle big time. You know when you just can’t be bothered? Wonder why you are bothering?  Why am I doing this why am I doing that? What should I be doing? Blah blah blah. I took a few photos for the sparkle prompt and they were all a bit rubbish. Why bother? Actually,  I did think ‘why am I doing this project?’  I am at week 40 and I have not missed a single Through The Lens Thursday, but why? I might be getting a bit better at using my camera but I am really not understanding all those numbers.  What do they all mean and how is it that they can create a sharp, wonderful shot or destroy it by adding a distinctly non artistic blur. So, I took myself off to Pilates which is one of the toughest exercise classes I take and believe me, I don’t bother with easy workouts. The weather looked like it might produce something biblical and I almost turned around and went home …

Through The Lens Thursday 39. Away.

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    For this week’s Through the Lens Thursday our fearless leaders from GFunkified and Writing Wishing blogs prompted us to take photos around the theme – away. So I grabbed my vintage luggage and took a pretend ‘going away’ photo.  I would love to use these cases to travel, at the minute they have wool (big Samsonite) and buttons on cards (mushrooms) in them! While I was getting my settings sorted on my camera, I noticed the blimp way up in the sky, pretty far away.  Double ‘away’ whammy this week.  I feel like a bit of an over achiever!  Ha. Are you participating in any challenges this year?  Photography or otherwise.  How is it going?  We are into the last third of the year, so if you are still keeping up with your challenge I applaud you.  It can be pretty hard to keep momentum even with a weekly challenge such as this. I also do a photo a day with Fat Mum Slim‘s prompts and I have got into such a habit with it, …

Through The Lens Thursday 38. Tall.

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  Tall.  I found a tall tree. Predictable, I know, but I quite like the focus spot on the bark and the bright tree tops in the distance. Thanks to Greta at Gfunkified and Alison of Writing Wishing for coming up with Through The Lens Thursday and many congratulations to Alison on the birth of her beautiful twins. Next week’s prompt is ‘Away’.  Happy Thursday!