All posts tagged: Through the Lens Thursday 2015

Through The Lens Thursday 2. Colorful/Colourful

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 It is not a colorful day today and it has not been a very colorful week!  Lots of cold and grey and a sprinkling of snow. At the same time I am getting super into gorgeous and amazing mandalas – drawing them and learning about them.  I tried drawing one for the first time this week and it is lovely and colorful.  I had a really nice time drawing it and now I can’t stop!  A blog post on mandalas is coming up next week.  Huzzah! In the meantime, here is my first go at a mandala and it is ‘Colorful’. Through the Lens Thursday is a weekly project headed up by Greta of GFunkified and Alison of Writing Wishing.  We are taking and posting a photo a week using our DSLR camera on manual to improve and hopefully take some great photos. For this project I am using my Canon Rebel XS which is now set to manual at all times!

Through The Lens Thursday 2015. 1/52 New.

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  Happy 2015 to you! I am so pleased that Through The Lens Thursday is continuing through 2015.  I left today’s a little late, because we went on a lovely hike. The prompt is ‘New’, so I took a photo of myself with my film camera (Minolta X-370, if you have any clue how to use it, do let me know!) and a new lens to try.  The camera is not new, it is circa 1984, but what is new is my experience using it.  Even when 35mm cameras were all that was available, I only had a point and shoot, not a manual.  I am using Through The Lens Thursday to improve my manual camera skills on all platforms! I have taken a film with the regular lens, but I haven’t collected it yet, so I don’t know if I am managing to get anything at all in focus.  I took my second film today (technically my third, but I failed to wind the first film on properly and ended up with a whole …