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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 […]
Are you looking for a creative challenge for 2019? I know that I am looking for new ways to grow creatively and this time between Christmas and New Year is when I start to make my plans for the upcoming year. If you are also thinking about ways you can grow as a photographer next […]
December has passed in it’s usual blur with little time made for photography. We always take some time away from home in December which means that Christmas preparations are rushed and the month seems swing backwards and forwards between being busy and being totally relaxed! For this month’s Serenity Project I decided to use my phone […]
I was so organised this month and shot the blog circle images right at the beginning of the month, it seems like ages ago now! I actually had a little panic the other day when I realised we were almost at the end of the month, I’d been so organised that I’d forgotten I already […]
I did it! I’m really pleased to have finally submitted my Qualification Panel and passed! I’ve been a member of The Guild of Photographers for around five years, initially I was shooting portraits but my photography and business evolved over time into something very different. For quite some time I’ve been feeling the need to […]
It’s almost the end of the year and I’m very impressed to hear that some people have managed to keep up the weekly prompts and others will have caught up by the end of the year. Whether you’ve aimed to do them all or just dipped in and out I hope the project has kept […]