I’m inspired by the creative team of Anna Aspnes and often follow their tutorials.
Inspired by Barbara Houston see her notes HERE
Inspired by Miki read the tutorial HERE
Supplies by Anna Aspnes and myself. Find Anna’s website HERE
On Gratitude
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my habits in the morning as soon as I get out of bed is to move the blinds and look out of the window. Today the sky was showing it’s best face, smiling and beaming out the glory of a wonderful sunrise.
I thought it was about time I posted a layout. All supplies by Anna Aspnes
Tuesday Thoughts – A Week of Autumn
This week I have been using my iPhone even more than usual to document my days. It’s always with me, it makes me think about limitations and how to get around those problems.
Close shot using Snapseed and adding lens blur, taken at Trill Farm
Of course the days of low megapixel camera phones have gone and retro photography is all the rage, adding leaks, deliberately fading and adding lomo effects all add to the fun.
Using VSCO and adding fade highlights and shadow colours. Taken in Vivary Park
It’s making people take photos again, documenting lives and making memories. I’m all for that, as a historian it warms my heart. But on the other side what worries me is that so many people don’t bother to take their precious images off their phone, they sit there never being printed or saved and one day pouf…. they will be gone when the phone crashes or the phone gets damaged. Although i’m a disorganised and untidy human being ( my husband will testify to that ) but as far as photo organisation goes I am a fiend. I don’t keep my photos on my phone for long they are saved to my Lightroom catalogue under year and month, they have their own key words and monthly they are backed up onto an external hard drive. I know I know you are thinking that is overkill but I don’t expect everyone else to be quite so picky as me !
Taken using ProCamera tweaked in Lightroom
So if you know someone who has a phone and their life is documented on it please help them to take those photos off and save them and think of all those wonderful memories you have saved….
Layouts this week.
I’ve just finished the wonderful Anna Aspnes’ AnnaBlendzLive class it was fabulous I learnt so much….
Have a great week ……
Autumn in Clifton
‘The man with the greatest originality of thought and power of execution, bold in his plans but right’.
Daniel Gooch, 1859
Now both our children leave in Bristol we seem to be spending a lot of our leisure time driving up the motorway ! It’s no hardship as the city has everything a photographer could want or need.
It has some wonderful green areas. This is the beginning of what is known as The. Downs, but Bristol has so many green spots and vantage points.
The wonderful Clifton Suspension Bridge designed by the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. it spans the Avon Gorge and took 33 years to build. Brunel was a great engineer, a visionary, a man willing to take chances. In 2002 the BBC ran a programme called 100 Greatest Britons, Brunel was second, only Winston Churchill beat him and William Shakespeare was fourth ! If you want to learn more here is a link about the history.
On a beautiful Autumn day you can’t beat the view.
The area known as Clifton is considered the most desirable, elegant and upmarket with lots of classy, independent shops.
It has the Clifton Arcade which is full of little independents one off shops.
And finally one of the many scrapbook pages I have created about this wonderful city. Supplies by Anna Aspnes.
Morning
I’m a day behind but no worries !
Supplies Anna Aspnes and Jen Maddocks
31 Things for September and maybe longer….
Recently I have discovered that I like monthly prompts, my concentration and boredom levels kick in about week 4 so this seems to be the perfect length .
August Break 2015 Day 6 Notebook
I have just finished August break with Susannah Conway and now I am joining up with toris_tales for her #talesofseptember. Instagram has become my favourite way of communicating it is clean, quick and friendly.
For September I am revisiting 31 Things by Ali Edwards, I’m using her prompts to create an image, art piece or maybe a quote. I hope to document daily here on my blog, which I have so neglected recently. I realise that blogging daily could be a bit of a challenge but I am not going to beat myself up about it, I’m just going to enjoy the process…
So onto Day 1 the prompt is jewellery. This is my take on the prompt .
The supplies are by Anna Aspnes for those interested I used ArtPlay Palette Everyday, FotoblendzOverlays no6_2
“Jewellery holds memories, of occasions, of holidays and milestones.
But to me the best jewellery is nature’s bounty.. Raindrops sparkling like diamonds, the sun blazing through the trees on a winter morning changes colour into emeralds and rubies. The bright blue sea shows sapphire glinting under the sun.”
Tell me about your jewellery what memories does it hold for you ?
Vision
I think we’ve been so successfully seduced by the technology and technique – the HOW – that we’ve forgotten our vision or intent – the WHY. We didn’t mean to, of course we didn’t. But if the art of photography lies where craft and vision converge, then it’s probably because we’ve all been so caught up in the maddening learning curve of the craft that we’ve neglected the vision. David DuChemin
Oh my goodness this is me, technology and a head full of ‘stuff’. Bits from classes, a bit here a bit there. I’m going back to basics a sort of downsize. I have my wonderful new camera. all the hardware and software I could possibly need. So back to basics using IG, my blog and of course Facebook. Lets see how I do.
Early morning, it had been raining. In my garden just before the boundary. Panasonic FZ1000, 1/80 at f 4.0, focal length 146mm, ISO 250.
In the morning in the sunroom. Panasonic FZ1000, 1/1000 at f 3.2, focal length 15.26 mm, ISO 200.
Supplies by Anna Aspnes, Mini Palette Cherish, ArtPlay Palette Explore and Downtown.
Back to Basics
I am not very good at sticking to a plan sometimes I just prevaricate (like the ironing) . Other times I just can’t decide what to do creatively, I just have too many strands and I often am frozen.
So today I just started with a blank canvas and pulled supplies onto it and didn’t think I just
C R E A T E D.
Face by MissSouls-stock @ DeviantArt http://misssouls-stock.deviantart.com/art/Free-1-153353204. Digital supplies
by Jenn Maddocks and Captivated Visions.
Supplies by Anna Aspnes and Captivated Visions
Supplies by Rebecca Mcmeen (Tari)
Photography may just take a bit of a break and I will play and experiment..
Linking with Barb at Sunday Sundries HERE
Texture Tuesday
Good morning is Spring or Autumn with you yet ? I feel the seasons are slow to change this year, one step forward and one step back or am I just more impatient ? A bit of both I think….
These lilacs sum up my feelings on Spring, glorious, uncertain, full of fragrance and over all too quickly..
I’m currently following prompts from Liz Lamoreux on her Hand to Heart Facebook page. This month the prompts are Prompts of Everyday Beauty and today’s prompt is ‘Your own Backyard’ so all the images today are from my garden or the sunroom in my garden… If you want to check out Liz’s website it’s HERE
I’ve created this post on my iPad mini using photographs taken on my iPhone as an experiment today.
The quote is from Julia Child. Apps used Typic, Project Life app, Over and Rhonna Designs.
Here comes the Rain
Hello Texture Tuesday. i’m so glad I took some blossom photos yesterday because today the weather forecast is not good. As photographers how often do you check the weather forecast before you grab your camera ? I’d love to know….
Over in The Studio Online Kim’s prompt is potting sheds, the greenhouse needs a good clean so many cobwebs ! So I took my potting shed into the garden.
Some of the flowers were taken from the grass, the lilac from the fence…
I have created a new soft preset called berrily blue, It’s one of Kim’s that I have tweaked…
The little jar is a tealight holder but it works well as a vase…
I love hearts and the paper was part of a little packet that contained a wedding invitation, more about that in June….
Finally a layout. 
Supplies by Anna Aspnes, Breakaway and Spring Showers.
I hope the sun shines where you are today…..
