The one taken on a REALLY frosty morning

Taken on a really frosty morning. a few months ago

The other one of the back garden

Taken a few months ago loved how the tree looked against the sky. Gosh I REALLY need some new material!

The one with the cold beach

Dont you just love the beach in winter?

The one with the wellies

Just what we need for those lovely British summers!

The one with the colourful old school bus

I took this on a trip to Aruba a few months ago. Isn't the colour just gorgeous....and the beach.....ohhhhhh I wanna go back there :)

The one of the interesting building

The design of Peasholm Island was inspired by the scene depicted on the willow pattern plate. The island sits in a large-ish lake in Peasholm Park at North Bay in Scarborough.

The one with mum smiling

She hates her wrinkles so I did a flattering effect on them LOL

The one with the sick cat

Our cat was rushed to the vet a few months ago. Sooooo scary. I honestly thought he wasn't going to survive the night. He was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and was to sick to eat but needed to to prevent liver failure so he had a feeding tube (oesophagostomy) put in. He had it for 2 weeks and had to be fed 6 times a day...it was exhausting. Poor thing...

Photo-a-day: The one with the doorway

Don't ask me why but I like doorways LOL

Photo-a-day: Nairn beach

Nairn beach - taken August 2008. This place is soooo beautiful!

Photo-a-day: View from our bedroom window

Ooooh how exciting I hear you say? LOL

Photo-a-day: Royal Yacht Britannia at Leith

Aaaaahhhhh....happy memories. This pic was taken last year on a trip to see my sister in Scotland. Andy and I are a fan of ships so my sister took us to see the Royal Yacht Britannia at Leith near Edinburgh.

I liked this picture because even though its a bit dull and flat (taken with my old naff camera) I like the way that it illustrates one of my favourite activities....people watching. I like people-watching....its free....available anywhere...and I find people interesting.

Incidentally the person in the photo isn't just a regular person that I was spying on - its my sister....my twin sister. Did I mention already that I'm a twin?

Did you find me in yesterdays photo-a-day?

A fun photo-a-day for you today

Ok I have a fun photo-a-day for you today. I took this photo in the ships restaurant on a trip I took last year. If you click on the photo it will be much bigger and you'll be able to see me hiding in a reflection somewhere. Can you find me?

Over-cooked

I took this photo last summer in a small village about 6 miles away from my house. It was a really stormy day although I kind of killed the photo (some might say) by over doing the HDR. I was still learning how to do HDR at the time and kind of realised that actually I quite liked the over-cooked look. So anyway I recognise its not everyone's cup of tea....but I love the drama of it :)

The one with the cat

This was the first picture I took with my new camera (Canon Eos 450d). It was taken on fully auto as I didn't know how to use the functions back then. Of course I kind of know how to use them now :)

This photo is only a snap really but I've posted it because....well I think its sweet. I remember being totally amazed that I could see the texture in his fur....even the bits that weren't focused on. With my old Sony camera there was so much noise that everything looked fuzzy...even in reasonably goo lighting conditions.

The one(s) with the rabbit

Today I couldn't decide which picture to post as I like all 3 - and they are basically the same object anyway....just different views of it. The pictures were taken at Yorkshire Sculpture Park....my all time favourite place....just incase I haven't mentioned it a few times already! This place is truly amaaaaazing....really.

The picture above was taken last autumn when all the leaves were covering the ground and adding some lovely colour to the scene. The colour was enhanced further during the HDR process. HDR photography seems to be something people either love or hate. Has anyone tried it?

You can find out more about HDR photography on Wikipedia. Essentially you take 3 photos (a bracketed exposure)...one is normal exposure and the other 2 are over/under exposed. Then you use some special software such as Photomatix Pro to merge the images. There are other ways to do it and get similar results although I don't think the results are as good and I'm not sure you could call it a true HDR image. And I'm not interested in the debate...I know what I like and that's what matters :)

The head - I love the angle of this shot

The feet - if you look closely the detail is amazing!

Feel free to critique....constructive of course lol

Photo a day(ish)

I’ve tried this before but gave up after 100 days or so for various reasons, but I’ve decided I wanted to try again. I used to post (on a previous blog) photo every day and then I’d kind of critique it and hopefully learn something from it. Sometimes it would be a new photo and sometimes it would be an old one that I found interesting for one reason or another. So without further ado I’ll post todays photo.


This photo was taken on Filey beach (N E coast of England) in January 2009. The weather was terrible – dull and stormy and the photos just looked flat and lifeless in colour. I decided to try the photo in black and white because I thought the clouds and water would look more dramatic. So anyway, ignoring the fact that I never stuck to the rule of thirds, I think the results were fairly promising. Whilst it could still do with some corrections, I kind of like it. I would have liked something more interesting with respect to composition, but it wasn’t really the weather for hanging about!

*cough, cough*

*Dusts off blog*
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Ok I'm sorry I did kind of forget about this blog - although reading through it I am now wondering what I was thinking when I wrote half of this stuff LOL. Anyway, I will try and come up with something new at least twice a week. Do graphics count as photography? Hmmmm maybe I should re-name this blog "Louise's image work" :)