Category: <span>Photos</span>

Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park (Nature Centre)

July 4, 2015

This week we visited the Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park, formerly known as the Nature Centre, for Georgie’s Pre-School trip. Lydia got to come too – she’ll be starting at the pre-school in September for three mornings a week so it was lovely to see her playing with some of the kids she’ll be going with …

Iggle Piggle Love – My Sunday Photo

June 28, 2015

We were at Alton Towers to visit CBeebies Land earlier this week, and this photo of Lydia with Iggle Piggle just melts my heart. She was so excited to see him there and waited impatiently for her turn to give him a big cuddle and kiss, running straight into his outstretched arms. The girls also …

On the Beach – the Black & White Photography Project

June 17, 2015

Here are some photos I took recently when we stopped in Swansea for lunch and a bit of fresh air… I’ll be posting more about our stop in a few days, but for now I wanted to share these black & white shots for PODcast’s photography project.

I haven’t joined in with this one for a while, and I have missed the challenge it presents. Editing in black & white, and taking photographs with it in mind, is a whole other ball game to “standard” photography. Here are my four favourite monochrome shots from our day…

Symmetry - building a sand pile — Symmetry – building a sand pile

Sisters – My Sunday Photo

June 14, 2015

Yesterday afternoon the girls were tired out after an early start and a busy morning at the Sea Life Centre in the city centre. They cuddled up with their Daddy on the sofa for a bit, and then when James had to get on with a few things, Georgiana and Lydia snuggled up together and …

Spring in the Garden – Macro Photography Project

June 10, 2015

I’ve been out in the garden again this week with my new extension tubes mounted on my DSLM camera, snapping the new flowers that have bloomed in the spring sunshine. I took all of these photos with a Samsung NX3000 with both the 10mm & 16mm extension tubes attached, and my 50-200mm lens. (click any …

Jump – My Sunday Photo

May 31, 2015

We went to Geronimo Festival last Sunday, and had a whale of a time. This is one of my favourite shots from the mountain bike display – they were a brother/brother team and were fantastic; really skilled and also very entertaining.

Puppy Spam!

May 25, 2015

Last weekend we visited my Mother in Law for an afternoon, and we all spent ages playing with the new puppies. Of course, I took along my camera and snapped away – there isn’t much cuter than two small children playing with four small Norwich Terrier puppies!

I took an awful lot of photos, and here are my favourites…

Norwich Terrier Puppies — Georgie getting some Norwich Terrier Puppy cuddles

Norwich Terrier Puppy - floppy ears! — This one’s ears haven’t quite made it up yet

Norwich Terriers — Ready, Steady… Throw!

Norwich Terrier Puppies and kids — Getting down to their level

Norwich Terrier Puppy playing football — Lydia being tackled by a puppy

Lydia running — Lydia’s running style is hilarious, with her arms out behind her

Georgie and Norwich Terrier Puppies — I love this photo of Georgie

Norwich Terrier Puppy Kisses — Norwich Terrier Kisses

Hello — I feel like I’m being questioned

Me, Lydia, and Norwich Terrier Puppies — A rare photo of me

Macro Flowers – My Sunday Photo

May 24, 2015

I ordered some macro extension tubes for my Samsung NX 3000 camera (you can see a link at the end of the post to what I got) this week, and as soon as they arrived I was out in the garden playing around. We are lucky enough to have moved into a house with a lovely garden that, although small, flowers from Spring to Autumn, so I am looking forward to practising my photography all through the Summer with these new tubes to help with the extreme close ups!

All these photos are SOOC (Straight Out Of Camera, with no editing or cropping).

Here are a few more of my favourite shots:

I was stalking this bee with my lens, poor mite

I always think these flowers look like they are painted with watercolours

Our shed door - it probably needs replacing, to be honest! — Our shed door – it probably needs replacing, to be honest!

Here are the tubes I got, which will fit all NX mount cameras, and have electrical points to carry through the signals. I’m very pleased with them!

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Bubble – My Sunday Photo

May 17, 2015

Yesterday I attended the Baby Show and met up with Zara from Mojo Blogs. We were chatting with the team on the Arla Big Milk stand, and suddenly this bubble appeared seemingly out of nowhere and Zara managed to catch it on the tip of her finger, which surprised us all! I had my camera around my neck and couldn’t resist snapping a quick pic.

Nature Photography at Bluestone, Wales

March 31, 2015

Not long before we went away to Bluestone, I upgraded my camera body to a Samsung NX3000, a small improvement on my previous NX1000 – I only really upgraded as my kit lens got damaged (thanks, Homily dog). As I wanted a replacement with OIS it ended up making the most sense to actually buy a new camera with the lens I wanted, and sell off the damaged lens, the old camera body, and the bundled software to make the difference.

I am loving my new camera, and had a lot of fun playing with it, and the lovely lens James bought me for Christmas, while we were staying at Bluestone. There is so much beauty there to photograph and I was completely snap happy while we were there. Here are my favourite shots…