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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting take 2
Walking on Desborough Island the other day with Wilson, wrapped up in my winter woollies wondering what on earth had happened to our summer (again) my eye was caught by these beautiful delicate blue...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Curves
Here is a photo from my recent visit to Dublin that I wasn’t expecting to be sharing so soon! As I mentioned in my post for the photo challenge ‘Fleeting‘ I visited The Botanical Gardens in Glasnevin,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Camera’s Eyes
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes Last week I posted a photo that I had taken of a blue Geranium, and I mentioned that this photo was the result of a single shot not the...
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I remember that summer in Dublin
Whenever the sun comes out in Dublin in the summer, and people start taking lunch breaks in the park, this song comes into every Dubliner’s head who was around in the 80′s In the olden days, as my...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh This week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave here in northern Europe. We haven’t had a good summer in ages, probably since...
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Photography 101: The Quality of Light
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. For me, that is what my camera has been for many years. As a child I wrote a diary, but i would have phases of intense...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Fresh Flowers in my Garden
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Fresh As I said in my last post for this challenge this week we have been experiencing the third week of a wonderful heatwave and nobody is complaining as we have...
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Travel Theme; Wild
This week’s Travel Theme is Wild The word ‘wild’ invokes for me the closing words of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ Poem ‘Inversnaid’; What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness ? Let them be...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Portrait or Landscape
I love the new series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling. I read this week’s post ‘Finding the Best Shot – Portrait or Landscape‘ and was having a conversation with Jeff Sinon...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
I have only just learnt how to do this with my camera; To take a macro photo and have the background out of focus. I have been learning how to use my camera better and make it take the photos …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
This week’s photo challenge Sea, has had me thinking. We spend most of our spare time in summer on or at the sea, preferably on it if it’s warm, even more preferably in it! I have a huge collection...
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Travel Theme; Play
This is an easy one! In case you are wondering why Wilson is wearing a coat in 27° (80°F) heat, it’s a ‘cool coat’, made from chamois leather. You wet it, wring it out & it keeps him from...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View
Again the series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling have inspired me to start thinking about this week’s photo challenge, An Unusual POV in advance of the challenge. I often look...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: The World Through My Camera’s Eyes
This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is The World Through Your Eyes Last week I posted a photo that I had taken of a blue Geranium, and I mentioned that this photo was the result of a single shot not the...
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One Word Photo Challenge; Blue
Blue is my absolute favourite colour, so my holiday photo albums are full of blue photos! Having just spent time in Australia and New Zealand, it was even easier to find blue photos, since the sky was...
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I’m back & I’ve missed you all!
I’ve been away for ages, I’ve been working too much, I’ve been de-cluttering my house (a little) I’ve been doing some classes; learning how to use my camera a bit more & I’ve been enjoying this...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Refraction
I have posted this photo before, but when I went to look for it, the photo is not the same version. I took this picture through a car window in a downpour so heavy I wouldn’t even open the window! …...
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