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Weekly Photo Challenge: Focus
I have only just learnt how to do this with my camera; To take a macro photo and have the background out of focus. I have been learning how to use my camera better and make it take the photos …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Sea
This week’s photo challenge Sea, has had me thinking. We spend most of our spare time in summer on or at the sea, preferably on it if it’s warm, even more preferably in it! I have a huge collection...
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Travel Theme; Distance
I have realised I’m only getting to post once a week at the moment which isn’t anywhere as often as I would like. I’m only working 2 days a week, but I keep getting asked to do extra days so …...
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My House is for sale!!!
We walk past this house all the time, and pictures of it, or the island are always appearing on my blog as it is wonderfully photogenic. Now we have a wonderful opportunity! For a measly £4,000,000 it...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: An Unusual Point of View
Again the series of posts devoted to photography as visual storytelling have inspired me to start thinking about this week’s photo challenge, An Unusual POV in advance of the challenge. I often look...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
I love this photo It was taken in Lanzarotte, in Cezar Manrique’s house. César Manrique was an artist and architect who was born in Lanzarote. The first time we visited there we couldn’t help but...
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Happy Birthday Leonard!
Last Sunday we went to see Leonard Cohen again in the O2 arena in Greenwich. This is the 5th time we have seen him since he started out on his world tour in 2008. We were there, at the concert …...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!
When we went to Egypt on our honeymoon in April 2011 we climbed to the top of Mount Sinai in the middle of the night so as to see the sun rise at the top. We got to the summit … Continue reading →
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I’ve been under the weather…. but I’m not giving up!
Where on earth have I been? I can’t believe its been nearly a month since my last post! I’ve missed all my favourite weekly challenges, I’ve got some catching up to do! I have been ill, even more...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
I know I’m a bit late for this week’s Photo Challenge. I’m running a month late on most things at the moment so a few days past the deadline is good for me! When you are on a boat the … Continue...
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My Best Photo of The Week (Week 11)
I am way behind with posting at the moment, and when I get this far behind it is hard to know where to start!! I have lots and lots of photos to post, but picking just one to move forward … Continue...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Habit
As Michelle says in the Weekly Photo challenge, having a dog does indeed mean going for walks daily, often more than once a day. Where the habit comes in for us is where we chose to go for our walks....
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge; One
I love the spot this solitary bird has chosen to fish. He’s making it clear that he is the only one with any fishing rights For other interpretations of ‘One’ have a look at Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
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My Best Photo of The Week (Week 12)
I am rarely up at dawn, but in winter it is a little easier for me!! I this photo as the sun rose one morning on Langstone Village as we were waiting for our boat to be lifted out of … Continue reading →
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Layers
This week’s Weekly Photo challenge is called Layers, and I can not resist posting some pictures of the biggest layers I have ever seen! To put this image in perspective, here are some others of the...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge; Two
Keeping with the animal theme for week two of Cee’s challenge in the series ‘Numbers or number grouping’ but I’m not sure if I can find photos of 3 for next week! For other interpretations of ‘Two’...
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Oatlands Palace
I have wanted to participate in Lisa’s ‘My Home Town‘ Sunday challenge for a good long time, but before I post about my local area, or the nearby towns that I call my hometowns, I have to post about...
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My Best Photo of The Week
This is a photo of the converted mill buildings beside ‘Thames Lock’ the last lock on the River Wey in Weybridge before it joins the Thames. I am composing another post about the lock in connection...
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Butterfly Identification help please!
My recent post of a Peacock Butterfly inside my house reminded me to look for my pictures of a butterfly I took near Lechlade in August. We were visiting Buscot Park, in Buscot near Lechlade for my...
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge
This week’s Foto Challenge asks for pictures of numbers and letters. My first post in this challenge wasn’t a number, but a picture of four thistles, being the fourth challenge in the number series....
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