27 Dec 2011

Blogging from my phone

Just having a practice blogging from my phone

24 Dec 2011

MCS Sketch Challenge 3

Didn't think I would have time to finish this months sketch challenge over on the MCS Sketch blog I've used the October LE kit gorgeous Websters pages. The photo is my granddaughter taken on her 11the birthday at the beginning of December. There's lots of hidden journalling about what she is like at 11 ( a lovely caring young girl)

I love my MCS kits as I buy very little else in the way of stash now as they are so packed with goodies



Have a lovely Christmas everyone and take lots of lovely photos for scrapping




XXX



4 Dec 2011

12 Days of Christmas

I'm currently doing Cheryl's 12 Days of Christmas photography course. Talk about having a lot to learn but I am determined never to use my camera on Auto again.
The first is a collage where we had to try out White balance and wow what a difference it makes. All the shots were taken indoors during daylight hours. I think the best is the cloudy one (2nd down on the left cos I've done the writing too small)

The self portrait below was actually the first assignment, I nearly gave up before I started. I hate being in photographs. Thanks to my daughters friend Dawn on this one who was trying to point me towards taking a low key photograph. It didn't really work but the outcome wasn't as bad as I expected.



Next was to spell it out. For this I have used a Scrapbooking title and Christmas decorations on top of the fire




Finally it was a festive photo walk. As it was my husbands works night out I thought I would have ample opportunity to take some of the lovely lights I thought would be around where we were eating. How wrong I was there were no outside lights so I had to resort to the back garden the following morning







This is one of my chickens who did not take kindly to being disturbed by a mad woman with a camera and holly while she was in the nesting box










Today's assignment was fun party type photo booth shots. Difficult when everyone is out and hubby refuses to play. Will have to think again tomorrow