This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is Things that are Cold. I have to admit that I got a little muddled this week. I had it in my head that ‘things that are cold’ was the theme for the Black and White Challenge. I dug out a selection of cold pictures from my … More CFFC: Things that are Cold
Sombre land washed clean Sunbeams shimmer on damp earth Splashing in puddles
This post is for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s prompt is time. Sunlight caressing A stark landscape awakens Vibrant leaves unfurl Days advance onwards Dancing on the turning wheel New growth supplants old Yesterday, for the first time in over a week, the weather was pleasant enough for me to venture out for a walk. It was nice … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Time
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Food and Beverage. This is another of those themes that I didn’t think I’d be able to find much for at first. I don’t usually take pictures of food, other than the fruit growing in the garden. Once I started flicking through my archives, though, … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Food and Beverage
This post is for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s prompt is vibrant. Take flight, embracing each bright possibility, vibrant wings unfurled in joyous wonder.
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Lines and Angles. I hope you like them.
This post is for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s prompt is optimistic. Hoping: warm sun remains, dispelling bleak darkness, setting winter to memory. Eager. We’re having a very weird, wet, windy yet warm winter over here in England. Daffodils in January. Need I say more? The picture above I actually took right at the beginning of January – it was … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic
This post is for the first month of Jude’s Garden Photo Challenge, where for January we’re asked to share photographs of a winter garden. Those of you who’ve been following my blog over the last year may recognise that these aren’t from the garden that I usually photograph. They were all taken around my sister’s when … More GPC: January’s Winter Garden
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Anything that Starts with the Letter S. All of today’s pictures were taken around Hartsholme Country Park in Lincoln, UK, back in November. I hope you all like them. Do you have a favourite?
This post is for the Miniature Writing Challenge run by An Artist At Heart. This challenge gives a picture and a short story prompt and asks that you write either a mini short story (50 – 150 words), a poem or a haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables). To read the full rules, go here. This week’s prompt is … More The Sound of Drums
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is yellow or orange flowers. I hope you all like them.
This post is for the Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s prompt is weightless. Tumbling thistledown Catch a fairy, make a wish Dreams take soaring flight When I was a child I was told that each floating thistledown was actually a fairy in disguise. I’m not sure exactly who told me this – I have several relatives who told magical … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Weightless
This is my second entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge for the theme buildings. I decided that I may as well post the rest of the pictures I’d originally intended to include in my last post seeing as they were all ready to go. These ones are a little less ‘vintage’ than the last set.
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is buildings. As I’m sure you can tell, I spent a little longer playing around with the editing of these this week. I thought a vintage effect would fit the subject matter quite nicely. I’d love to know what everyone else thinks. … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Buildings
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is white flowers. I hope you all like them.
This is my entry into Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is Any Kind of Bricks or Stone Walls, Walks or Roads. I had to go with my favourite types of stone walls for this – those of historical sites! The photos were all taken at either Warwick Castle or Fountains Abbey last year. My … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Stone Walls
This post is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. This week’s theme is red flowers and so I decided to revisit a few of the flower photographs that I’ve taken over the last year or so. The poppy pictures were the main things to catch my attention as I wandered through my archives but I also found a few red … More Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Red Flowers
Every Wednesday, all across the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it. Here is mine.
Every Wednesday, all across the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it. Here is mine.
Every Wednesday, all across the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it. Here is mine.
Every Wednesday, all across the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it. Here is mine.
Last Sunday I visited Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire with my parents, a day out to celebrate both my birthday and their 45th wedding anniversary. It’s a wonderful place to visit for several different reasons. The ruins of the Cistercian abbey, destroyed with the dissolution of the monasteries under the orders of King Henry VIII, … More Fountains Abbey
Here’s my final October edit for Robyn’s One-Four Challenge. My main aim for this month was to learn how to layer images to create a composite. I also wanted to build up to a really spooky image for the final week. I’m feeling quite happy with everything I’ve achieved but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks! This … More One-Four Challenge: October Week Four
It’s time for another post for Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is, Things Made From Wood. All of today’s pictures are of a wooden statue that my grandfather brought back from Africa in the 1970s. She’s probably quite basic tourist wear, not to mention she’s rather battered nowadays, but she’s been a part … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Things Made From Wood
Every Wednesday, all across the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it. Here is mine.
Here’s my October week three edit for Robyn’s One-Four Challenge. I’ve been playing around with this week’s image so much that I’m really not sure what steps I took to reach the final version – but I’ll try to remember as best I can! I began with the week one edit which I opened in Camera Raw where I increased both contrast … More One-Four Challenge: October Week Three
It’s time for my October week two edit for Robyn’s One-Four Challenge. This week I wanted to focus on the spiderweb and bokeh. I also wanted to give the image a slightly a magical or spooky appearance. Hopefully I succeeded. To create this week’s version I first opened the image in Photoshop Elements 13 where I cropped … More One-Four Challenge: October Week Two
This post is in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is, Cameras or Photos of Photographers. I wasn’t sure for a while whether I was going to be joining in with this week’s challenge because, as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t generally take many pictures of people. The exception, of course, is my … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Cameras or Photographers
It’s now October and so time for a new image for Robyn’s One-Four Challenge. I took this image just last week when out for a walk around the village. I’ve always found graveyards fascinating places to walk around – I always wonder about the stories of the people buried there. Here’s my first edit: For this first … More One-Four Challenge: October Week One
This post is in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is, Backs of Things. I considered taking some photos of the backs of random items for this one but then I thought about all the pictures I’ve taken of my family that only show their backs . In the end I decided to create the … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Backs of Things
This post is in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Change. Don golden garments Dance through the spiralling year Winter soon will come I love this time of year – as summer shifts into autumn, greens fading into gold. With this week’s theme I thought I’d capture that change in progress. I hope you like them.
It’s time for the final September edit of Robyn’s One Four Challenge. I can hardly believe it’s week four already – this month has flown by! For this week I wanted to create a soft look of an impressionistic painting for the image. This week’s edit was actually the first one I created, as soon as I … More One-Four Challenge: September Week Four
This post is in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is, Perspective. And here are my photos: A little while ago I was wandering along the lanes around the village when I discovered a piece of farm equipment, unhitched at the edge of a field. I think it might be a … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Perspective
It’s time for the third September edit of Robyn’s One Four Challenge. This week’s edit is in response to Joanne’s suggestion that she’d like to see a black and white version of the image. I again began by opening the original image in Camera Raw where I made these changes: Temperature: +20 Contrast: -100 Highlights: -19 Shadows: -78 … More One-Four Challenge: September Week Three
It’s time for the second September edit of Robyn’s One Four Challenge. I wanted to create an image this week that was very different to last week’s highly detailed version. Stacy of Lensaddiction suggested that I crop some of the rocks away from the bottom, whilst Ben Rowe of Aperture 64 said how he’d like to see it … More One-Four Challenge: September Week Two
This post is in response to Cee’s Black and White Challenge. This week’s theme is, What is Beautiful to You, so I thought I’d post a few galleries. I hope you all like them. I find beauty in roses, blooming gloriously throughout the summer months, their velvet soft petals curling in intricate layers. I find beauty … More Cee’s Black and White Challenge: What is Beautiful to You
After taking August off from Robyn’s One-Four Challenge I’m now back with a new image for September. The picture I’ve chosen to edit this month was taken a few years ago at Corfe Castle in Dorset, UK, and has languished in a folder since that time. I’ve always dismissed it as being too dark but decided it would be a good one to … More One-Four Challenge: September Week One
Riverboat idling Amidst the harvest sun’s glee Youthful dreams recalled The child’s wants expressed In wildly scattered glitter River flowing on It took me quite a long time to decide what to write to accompany these pictures. I knew that I wanted to express at least one of the ways in which they fit the Weekly … More Weekly Photo Challenge: Connection
One type of weather you can nearly always rely on in England is rain. This year has been particularly wet! It might be annoying, stopping me from getting outside to take photographs, but it’s what makes the gardens so green and the growth so lush, so I suppose I shouldn’t complain. As I arrived home a … More After the Rain
A sedate path idles where mighty engines once roared. The bridge stands lonely sentinel, holding memories of its glory days in unloved brick-work. This post is for Cee’s Which Way Challenge. The photograph was taken in Newark on Trent (Nottinghamshire, UK) along the path of the old railway line. The railway itself closed in 1988 and since then … More Cee’s Which Way Challenge 2015: Week #34 – The Old Railway Bridge
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