55/365

After a trip of over 200 miles today I arrived home exhausted (had forgotten to take a camera with me) and decided to take a photo of the necklace one of my daughters got me for my birthday and the chic lit she has loaned me!  We had such a fab time together today visiting her brother!

54/365 Toy Story remake!

Nearly 15 year old son has been sorting his stuff out today in order to pass the toys down to some younger friends.  It's amazing what turns up - and now gets to go to a new home! Yay!!! to the sorting out of stuff but Booooo!!  to the end of an era!

53/365 Birthday cards

Today was my birthday and these were some of my cards that had arrived in the post!  A bittersweet day with nice times with my family and lunch with a friend but also some sad news and my health is not so good!

52/365 Some colour!

Just for Stella - some colour!  :)  Haven't stepped away from the bokeh yet but largely that is because I am taking my photo late in the day and need the aperture wide open in order not to have to use the flash!
This is my RNLI rose right now.  It is beautiful!!

51/365 Teacup

I've been enjoying Red Bush herbal tea lately and this is my preferred cup!

50/365 Spring has sprung!

This lovely sign of spring is poking over our fence from our neighbours garden.  Love it - roll on some lovely warm sunshine!!!

49/365 Torch light

Wish I'd thought of this on valentine's day!!  Playing with light - One son, one torch, one camera and tripod, lots of laughs!

48/365 Animal!

The weather was really beautiful this morning and I lugged my camera around on all my errands  in the hope of a good photo opportunity.  It really hurt as I was in pain anyway and ended up carrying lots of heavy stuff.  Eventually I thought it had paid off and I saw a really good potential photo - went to take it and..... no memory card!!!! Again!!!!  I have to get into the habit of replacing it straight away!!!  Anyway, felt a bit rubbish and had to do an indoor photo again but never mind as I really like my animal belt - I got it in one of the surf outlet centres in Devon!

47/365 Control tower to Gull 1 - You may now make your way onto the runway!

The weather was - yes, you guessed it - grey and rainy so I went and had a cup of soup at the seafront after a busy morning and took photo's through the open car window and then practiced the HDR techniques I learned yesterday!

45/365 HDR

HDR week at the photo course today!  We went through the basics on HDR then went to the local graveyard to take photos (learnt something new about my camera in the process - always a good thing) and then came back to class to edit.  It is great to know how to do this although I don't always like HDR photos!  However, when it is done well it can be fabulous!  Here are some of the other photos I took with the before and after shots.

44/365 Amarylis

Went to lunch at a friend's today - she's from scotland and fed us haggis, neeps and tatties!  Delicious!  By the window she had this beautiful Amarylis.

43/365

So, D and I were at the shops and I'd just finished saying don't get me a rose for valentine's day when we ran into the RNLI money raising stall and they had single stem roses for a £1.  Well, we have supported the RNLI ever since they saved D's brother from drowning over a decade ago - so here it is........ the RNLI Valentine's Rose!

42/365

Spent the day cleaning today - to a deadline - and so once again didn't get to the camera until it was dark.  This is a handmade brooch made for me by a friend and given to me on my birthday.

41/365 Rain on the windscreen

I went for a bit of impressionism in grey and rainy land today.  (Someone said to me today that the more progressive way of thinking is that grey and rainy is really Silver and Cleansing!  :)) I'm learning to love it!!!) This is an entrance to a piece of wooded land near my home taken from inside the car with different focus on the raindrops on the windscreen and I've upped the saturation. It needs a lot more editing but I don't have time and also the photos aren't really worth it but I got to practice and play for a few moments and in some ways that is what the 365 project is all about. 

40/365 Bedroom radiator

So, my photographic life is getting a bit sad!  I need to get out of the house with my camera!!!  The texture on this is not my favourite when the photo is big but I like it small.  And sorry Stella but the 50mm on a large aperture was the only way to go with this shot! Lol!!  I cannot step away from the bokeh.....yet!!!

39/365

This little box sits on my bedroom windowsill.  It is made by a local artist in McLaren Vale, South Australia.  It is made from Jarra wood (Australian mahogany) and I love it!

38/365

Today at the photocourse, instead of doing landscape photography in the woods ( it was raining), we did a question and answer day and learned to apply textures in layers.  We took some photos around the campus and blended them together. This photo is a blend of these two photos.  Check out Stella's photo Here of the lock it's brilliant!

37/365

A house filled with lovely young friends and family tonight!  An exhausting but a good day!

36/365 Heart shaped face

Wedding dress bought!!!!  Maybe I'll have a bit more time to plan my photo's now!  Want to do some natural light photo's but am enjoying the tripod!

35/365 Mexican

Delicious mexican wraps for dinner tonight.  Love my 'heart' chicken bowl!

34/365

I tried to edit this in different ways because it was a bit of a boring photo on it's own. I like the way this edit emphasizes the shadow.   This is the sort of present I get from my friends! :))

33/365~2feb2011 Potato masher face

Desperation is forcing me to use kitchen utensils in my photos!!  Edited this from 'raw' in photoshop with the skills I learned at my course on Monday!

32/365 All things wedding!

My life for the last month has been pretty much dominated by preparations and plans for my daughter's wedding.  So, after an exhausting day I decided (with the help of a friend here) that my photo would be some of the paraphernalia I am collecting to do with wedding planning and ideas!