photography

Colour my grey day

September 15, 2017 By Jax Blunt 10 Comments

Right now I’m really enjoying photography, and particularly sharing it on Instagram, where there are some wonderful communities you can join in with by tagging your pictures. I thought I’d share a few of my favourites here. #colourmygreyday is for those days when you need a pop of colour. This evening’s picture, taken during this […]

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What’s your X Moment?

July 17, 2016 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

Parenting, or indeed life, is full of blink and you’ll miss it moments. Once upon a time, that was what happened, if you weren’t there, you weren’t looking, you lost your chance. Then came cameras, Polaroids, digital cameras, and now most of us have that powerful camera in our pocket in the form of our […]

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How does your garden grow?

May 19, 2016 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

Colourfully. I planted irises last year to grow myself a new header. They bloomed partly when we were away, so I didn’t get the pictures I wanted. This year the single blue one has flowered in the rain. It’s beautiful. But not quite what I want looking for in a header. Hm. I could use […]

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The calming wild.

April 28, 2016 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

It is no secret that I am fond of outdoor time. Most days I try to get outside even if only into the garden, camera in hand. You can find little secrets and treasures everywhere, even in your own garden, if you look carefully. It’s all about perspective. I have two favourite walks at the […]

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Solstice at the beach.

December 22, 2015 By Jax Blunt 6 Comments

I thought Solstice was yesterday. (In my defence, it’s often on the 21st. Except when it’s not, like this year. Solstice is the moment the sun reaches its most southerly position, which was 4.49 am or some such, so this morning’s sunrise was the one to watch.) Shame, because yesterday’s was better. Happy solstice! Went […]

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Wordless Wednesday – on the bike

December 16, 2015 By Jax Blunt 3 Comments

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Perspectives

November 23, 2015 By Jax Blunt 4 Comments

It’s all about your point of view. The same flower, the same morning, the same camera. Just from two different points of view. To me one looks warm and one cold. One could be morning and one evening. Or one summer and one winter. No, both today, taken just a minute or so apart, […]

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If you go down to the beach today

November 2, 2015 By Jax Blunt 5 Comments

you’ll need to be careful not to get lost in the fog. Very very thick fog. No foghorns – I assume it was too thick for the ships to be coming in at all. I guess Operation Stack would have lorries lined up down the roadside. I don’t know though, because I didn’t leave town […]

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Sun dogs and sandcastles

October 25, 2015 By Jax Blunt 2 Comments

I hate clock change time. I’m not good with sudden change, and this time of the year it seems to just pile up – one minute it’s summer (beginning of this month we were on the beach in T shirts), next it’s practically winter – it was 2 degrees this morning. 2! Best way to […]

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You can have berries. Or you can have moon. Not both

October 20, 2015 By Jax Blunt Leave a Comment

I stood on the pavement outside our house, and aimed my camera at the tree opposite, which has the most wonderful berries and leaves, and was being lit by the setting sun. And then I saw the moon. And I spent the next ten minutes trying to get shots of the moon with the tree. […]

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