Tag: photography
Sun dogs and sandcastles
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…
You can have berries. Or you can have moon. Not both
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.…
Sunday morning in the garden
Bedraggled is the word for it really. It’s a bit soggy out there. Things to note when pootling around in your pyjamas 😉 But if you squint and stroll and look around, there’s all sorts going on. This guy looks how I feel.. Whereas I don’t think this flower got the whole autumn memo. In…
Sunrise in a dewdrop
There’s a whole sunrise in that dewdrop. Worth dropping a whole load of water on my head wriggling into the bush to get the shot, right? Definitely worth running to the beach, even if there wasn’t a whole lot going on over the sea. May have taken some artful shots of wet stones. We…
I haven't blogged
And it’s making me twitchy, not blogging, holes in the archives. I haven’t blogged, and I’m afraid my readers will just fade away, forget I was here. (Are you still here? ) No blog for days and I might forget the days, except. Except that I have a record of beach days in photographs, and…
If you go down to the woods today
be sure to take your carrying bag, map, binoculars and little brother. Don’t forget your imagination. There could be fairies in the wood, but you’ll have to be quiet or you might scare them away. Watch for the signs. There could be gossamer hammocks hung from old flowers. Maybe they’ve grown little fairy steps…
Saturday snippets 3 October 2015
{riding} a bike. I staggered out of bed earlier than I needed to be up to get Big to cadets D of E, and as I met her in the kitchen she said – go look at the sky. So I did, and then I went back inside, asked to borrow her bike, and peddled…
Sun dogs and eclipses
The super blood moon last night was incredible. The three youngest children saw it – each of the younger two just had a look, while Small stayed up for around an hour watching it. I didn’t get a red picture. For some reason it didn’t occur to me to try manual focus, and the light…
Playing with light, and doodling
I love experimenting with my camera, which is not something I expected to be saying here. Today I was scrabbling around in the garden, trying to get the angle to get a shot against the sinking sun. I think it went pretty well. Then I finally got around to doing a sketch for sketchalong. Which…
New camera: Canon SX700 HS
I’ve had a Canon camera for a few years now, a present from Tim. It was a Powershot SX110. It takes very nice pictures. And sometime last year I started playing with what I could achieve when I moved off manual, and the answer is, some very nice things. Some are on my much neglected…
