All posts tagged: Taken with the Canon

Through The Lens Thursday 17. Water

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  It is Through the Lens Thursday today and the prompt is ‘Water’.  It is supposed to rain later today which I was going to wait for, but in the meantime I popped down to the creek to see what I could see. I wandered around for a few minutes checking out the rather low flowing water.  I  snapped some reflections and tried to work out how to get the water in focus as it danced about infront of me (one of the reasons I love this challenge, having to figure out new settings and understand my camera better). As I turned to walk back along the edge of the water, a flower seedhead floated down towards me and it was the prettiest thing gently gliding along in the water. It soon came to rest next to a rock letting me get a photo before it moved on down the creek. The sun was bobbing about in the water under the bridge (last photo), so I took his picture. I am sure I will still …

Through The Lens Thursday 16. Together

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I am hiding out in the library sitting on a nice squishy chair with a little round table to write on and keep the books I have already chosen to check out. We are fully into the Spiderwick Chronicles, so I have book 2 ‘The Seeing Stone’ and a couple of Tony DiTerlizzi books to have a look at too. My house is full of the noise of a bathroom being re-done – drilling, crashing and some swearing. So here I am in the lovely library putting together my Through The Lens Thursday post. This week was ‘Together’, and as I gathered my mid morning frothy coffee equipment, I thought they were the perfect ‘together’. I make the coffee in a Chemex, froth up the milk in my metal frother thingy and serve it in my favourite coffee cup. Ta da! Do you have specific mugs or cups for tea or coffee? I totally do, some of my mugs I would never drink tea from and some would never contain coffee! For instance, I would …

Through the Lens Thursday and Ten on the 10th April 2014

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A lovely sunny day for Ten on the 10th this month, so I thought I would snap a few pictures of the wonderful tree blossoms which are only around for a week or two before the leaves pop through and the trees are green. I do love the flowers, but they make me sneeze, not really bad allergies, just enough to be inconvenient! Looking back on April 2013 Ten on the 10th, Spring is a little behind this year, but as long as we get a Spring and Summer doesn’t come too early to heat us all up, I am not complaining. I have taken the photos on the Canon and my iPhone.   Lots and lots of tree blossom! My Through the Lens Thursday offering.  The prompt today was ‘Books’, so I took a photo of my cook books.  I had to use the tripod to get this as the books are in a dim corner. The last photos are taken on my phone.  I saw this sign in the road, so of course …

Things I Collect…

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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 …

Through the Lens Thursday. Dark

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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 …

A Cup of Tea with Me

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For the past month I have been a student in the classroom of Blog with Pip and I have a folder full and a notebook bursting with ideas. Now we have graduated, we have been invited to write this post by our fearless leader,  Pip Lincolne of Meet Me At Mikes, so here I am to chat about me over a cup of tea.  If you pop over to Pip’s blog, you can read posts by the other lovely students.  I got to spend time with some creative, inspiring folk I can tell you. Today’s cup of tea features a gorgeous vintage pink willow pattern teacup and saucer.  My youngest picked it out from a flea market while we were on holiday in Cape Cod last year.  I must admit, I don’t drink out of it, I need a big mug of tea, but big mugs are not so pretty. Being from the UK originally, I should be a tea drinking monster, but I tend to gravitate towards coffee more and more since I have …

Ten on the 10th March 2014

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A gorgeous Spring day, hurrah! It is amazing how mood boosting a spot of sunshine and warm air is. For ten on the 10th this month, I have all sorts of things to show you!  It has been a lovely sunny and warm day and even though the dastardly clocks went back an hour over the weekend, everyone is in a good mood. Today I have been admiring the flowers I bought last week. Wondering what I should do with the treasures I found at the antiques mall?  I bought a perfume bottle stopper and some chiffon ribbon which by coincidence is the same colour almost exactly as the stopper, so pretty. Pablo has been enjoying the sunshine too.  Chasing his tennis ball up and down the garden! I made and listed a couple of new bracelets, I think they are both beauties!  If you want, click on the image to magically fly over to my Etsy shop. My new notebook and my favourite scarf. The garlic is starting to peek through.  Remember when I …

Through the Lens Thursday. Hands.

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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 …

Through the Lens Thursday. Window.

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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.