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I honestly don’t think there can be anywhere that feels more serene than the Samye Ling Buddhist Centre in Eskdalemuir, Scotland. I’ve visited here a number of times over the years and have seen many changes as the centre has grown and extended around the central temple. It’s hard to explain the feelings of calm […]
For this month’s blog circle I’m sharing something very different for me, something that’s way out of my comfort zone… Over the last year or so I’ve found myself slipping into only shooting the sorts of things that I find easy and people have come to expect that I’ll be shooting still life or outdoor […]
Another month is almost over which means it’s time for a new set of weekly prompts! New members are always welcome, just click here and request to join the Facebook group. All you need to do is take a photo during the relevant week inspired by the prompt and share in the Facebook group or on Instagram […]
This month I’ve been finding myself drawn to black and white photography and questioning why I don’t shoot and share more images in black and white. If I look through my bookcase I most of my photography books are black and white, if I buy a photo magazine it’s always Black + White Photography. There […]
We are almost in April so that means it’s time for a new set of prompts! If you haven’t joined already you will be more than welcome, just click here and request to join the Facebook group. All you need to do is take a photo during the relevant week inspired by the prompt and […]
I would love to be able to paint. Not in a photo-realistic way, although I massively admire the enormous level of skill and talent those painters possess, but I would love to able to paint in loose, more impressionistic or abstract style. I imagine that process of adding paint to paper or canvas and becoming […]
I’ve been really lucky to have had a loan of a beta version of the brand new Lensbaby Edge 35 for the last couple of weeks and although the weather has meant that I’ve not managed to use it as much as I would have liked I’ve really enjoyed shooting with it. If you aren’t […]
For this month’s Lensbaby Blog Circle post I’m sharing some images of my beautiful dead roses. Whenever I’m buying flowers to photograph I always look for the ones that have reached their sell by date and been reduced, I find their slight imperfections much more interesting than the perfect flowers. Plus I don’t need to […]
It’s hard to believe we are almost in March. February has passed in a bit of a blur for me, creating The Texture Shop website distracted me for a whole week and then the rest of month just seemed to disappear! The next set of weekly photo prompts are above and if you haven’t joined already […]
What could possibly be more serene than a walk in snow and fog, each brings their own unique silence, put them together and you feel like you could be all alone in the world…. I woke up one morning at the end of January to a covering of snow, I’m usually keen to head out […]
Last week an interesting email popped into my inbox from the lovely Keri at Lensbaby. It was an invitation to join a select group of Lensbaby Artists and be part of Lensbaby’s Challenge Playbook, a series of photographic projects for us to pick and choose from and shoot at our leisure. The challenges are all […]
It’s very rare that I do any urban photography, partly because I’m happiest in the countryside or by the sea but I’m also a little uncomfortable wandering a city centre alone with a large and conspicuous camera. So when I spotted that the lovely Katya from Easy Insta Manchester was organising an Instacake meetup I thought […]
I’ve loved seeing all the photo’s being posted in the group for the first four weeks, such a wonderful variety of images and a lovely friendly community. If you didn’t join in why not start this month? All you need to do is take a photo during the relevant week inspired by the prompt and […]
2nd January, the first “real” day of 2019 (don’t know about you but New Year’s Day never feels like a real day somehow) and I woke to the most beautiful frosty morning. A glorious winter day, bright but bitterly cold. I argued with myself, part of me wanted to go out and capture the beauty […]
Maybe it’s not the most cheerful of photographic subjects for my first blog post of the new year but I do love a good graveyard! I did very little photography during December and what I did shoot was with my phone, the end of the month was rapidly approaching and I’d nothing to share for […]