All posts tagged: ThroughTheLensThursday

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 …

Through The Lens Thursday 14. Self

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I am joining Greta at GFunkified and Alison at Writing Wishing this year for a weekly photography improvement and practice challenge.  We have to use our camera on the manual setting, none of this auto, doing it the easy way nonsense and each week there is a prompt/theme to follow.  It is proving to be a great challenge and I am learning lots from other people’s photos and the prompts themselves. This week brings the dreaded self portrait with the prompt ‘self’.  In true selfie style I held my camera at a full arm stretch and snapped away!    As it was pouring with rain, I held the camera just inside the door while I stood just outside and got a bit soggy. I am just getting the hang of the F stop numbers the camera and which light works best with higher or lower numbers.  This was taken at F4.5 and ISO200.  Lots of learning and experimenting, I took 44 pictures of only half my head, some out of focus and some very weird …

Through the Lens Thursday 13. Looking Down.

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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’.    

Through the Lens Thursday. Door.

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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.

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 …

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.

Nonpareils and Through the Lens Thursday #7 Dull.

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No, you are not a day adrift, and amazingly nor am I. I  decided not to post my Through the Lens Thursday yesterday or it would have given away my Valentine treat for my husband and he looks at my blog, so that would not have been much of a surprise! So here is the photo and how I made the Valentine chocolate treats. This week’s theme was ‘dull’, so I snapped these sprinkles which are dull in comparison to the usual garish coloured and shiny versions.  I took the above photo with my Canon, the rest are taken on the iPhone. I still call these itsy bitsy sugar balls  ‘hundreds and thousands’ and I love them!  They are called  ‘sprinkles’ here in the States, what do you call them? Crunchy teeth breakers? Teeny coloured balls which look pretty on cupcakes and trifles for a few minutes then melt and bleed a tie dye effect all over the treat? Fairy balls? Nonpareils? Whatever you call them, I like them best with chocolate on,  so I …

Through the Lens Thursday. Flower.

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I know, ha ha, very funny. We have a few inches of snow and I have to find a flower for Through the Lens Thursday! Challenge accepted. I found some snow topped hydrangeas which with some bending and twisting and kneeling in the snow, I could photo against the beautiful blue sky we have today. I took a ton of photos, different numbers on different dials for different effects. In fact the first two I took, I just shot them straight off, I forgot to check my light meter and all other numbers.  Someone was going by and in my self conscious rush, I just started to snap away.  Well, thank you stranger who made me uncomfortable in my random photo taking because these are my favourite photos of the lot! It is so exciting to get the photos onto the iPad to check them out properly. I always put my photos onto the iPad so that I can see them nice and big and check for focus or lack of it.  I get a …