We have got a bumblebee nest in our garden at the moment! I am so pleased, and their gentle presence in the garden is so lovely. The previous owner of the house was evidently an avid gardener as our back garden is a riot of colour, flowering constantly from Spring ’till Autumn. The bees love it!
There is nothing quite as special as a big empty box, when you’re a little child with a big imagination. We are hosting a jigsaw puzzle twitter party on Tuesday, and a huge pile of jigsaws was delivered to us in this box. They weren’t able to go safely back into the box until we need …
Not an artistic photograph this week, but rather something that made me smile. I spotted this outside a coffee shop this week. I’m definitely a coffee fan so I do like to sit and enjoy a coffee – and I certainly don’t operate properly in the mornings until I’ve got one down me!
We visited a garden centre yesterday with my Mother-in-Law for lunch (at an amazing hidden gem of a cafe I intend to blog about soon!) and I spotted this candle holder in amongst the pretty things for sale. I didn’t buy it, or even look at the price tag, as I have nowhere to put this sort of thing, but I couldn’t resist snapping a quick photograph. I just loved the colours and shape of this beautifully created piece-of-art-with-a-function.
There was a full moon on Thursday, so I had a go at capturing it (kneeling on a windowsill in just my pants & vest top, with zoom lens poking out the window – sorry, neighbours!). I took this around midnight, when the moon finally decided to show itself above the houses in the street …
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 …
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 …
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.
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:
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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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.
