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| Dad and Ed in cafe |
Other photos from the week:
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| Beautiful views on the scenic route home from Hay on Wye |
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| We think Ed took this. It isn't freaky... until you notice his face in Mum's skirt!! |
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| Looking up at the SS Great Britain |
Monday, 6 August 2012
Books and a Boat
I seem to be very behind in making my weekly posts... thinking back to my birthday week, here's the Pleasing Photo:
I know the cider bottle in the front is a bit distracting but I like the light and their expressions... I'd been trying to take a photo of both of them but Ed was pretty insistent on reading the write-up of Bradley Wiggins' latest achievements and wouldn't look up.
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
A Trip to Bristol
So... the summer holidays finally arrived, and I was able to spend some time in Bristol with my lovely parents and brother. The sun even came out for my visit. Hooray!
Pleasing Photo from last week:
As usual I had a few potential pleasing photos (PPPs?) and it was quite a tricky choice between them. In the end I went for this one even though it is slightly underexposed in some places - I kind of like the effect of that and the way it lets you see the quality of the late afternoon sunshine. Also it is genuinely candid (I'm not very good at getting those!) and I feel it conveys the quality of those few days in Bristol, spending time in the garden, just doing our own thing.
Two other contenders were:
What do you guys think? Which picture is your favourite?
Pleasing Photo from last week:
As usual I had a few potential pleasing photos (PPPs?) and it was quite a tricky choice between them. In the end I went for this one even though it is slightly underexposed in some places - I kind of like the effect of that and the way it lets you see the quality of the late afternoon sunshine. Also it is genuinely candid (I'm not very good at getting those!) and I feel it conveys the quality of those few days in Bristol, spending time in the garden, just doing our own thing.
Two other contenders were:
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| Mum with soup at her lovely outdoor-cafe-style table |
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| Dad enjoying a stroll by the river (slightly overexposed?) |
(Another post coming up later with this week's PP)
Sunday, 15 July 2012
iPhone Toes
All the photos I've taken this week have been with Gwyn Bach. Sorry, real camera. Anyhow, I think this week's winner of the Pleasing Photo award is...
This charming image of my feet, adorned by the socks I acquired at the charity shop last weekend. The best thing about these socks was that they came in a pack of three, all different. Like :D
Other photographic moments from this week include...
Whilst the iPhone is certainly not as awesome a photographic tool as the Panasonic Lumix G2, it is certainly rather more readily available - and app versions of photo editing software are much cheaper than the real thing!
This charming image of my feet, adorned by the socks I acquired at the charity shop last weekend. The best thing about these socks was that they came in a pack of three, all different. Like :D
Other photographic moments from this week include...
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| Noah pulling silly faces |
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| A Kate Photo |
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| Breakfast in Bed (hurrah for Saturdays!) |
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| And a sneak peek at the recipe I invented this evening |
Sunday, 8 July 2012
Pleasing Photos...
... from the last six weeks!
I'm not entirely sure that there's one photo per week here - but I have got six that were taken over the past six weeks, so that'll have to do. Sorry for not keeping up properly. It's all to do with being pregnant, and being ill, and being a primary school teacher in June and July (I was surprised last year to discover that the summer term is by far the busiest and most stressful!)
Anyway, without further ado:
I don't think these are even in chronological order (Blogger doesn't seem to like putting photos in the right order) but anyway, there they are. And two more bonus shots:
I'm not entirely sure that there's one photo per week here - but I have got six that were taken over the past six weeks, so that'll have to do. Sorry for not keeping up properly. It's all to do with being pregnant, and being ill, and being a primary school teacher in June and July (I was surprised last year to discover that the summer term is by far the busiest and most stressful!)
Anyway, without further ado:
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| Noah tidies up after the all-age service |
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| A view I've spent lots of time pondering... |
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| One sees this sort of thing in St Albans from time to time |
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| Possibly our favourite local pub, the Olde Fighting Cocks |
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| A door knocker somewhere in Ware |
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| Ed: I say, where's my drink? |
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| I think I prefer this to the above actually - this'll be my Pleasing Photo from the wedding. |
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| And from today, the moment when a cheeky police officer asked the olympic torchbearer to hop onto his motorbike for photos. |
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Self Portrait
This week's Pleasing Photo is a (kind of!) self portrait, taken during my first outing since being ill. Here it is:
I love the way the early evening sunlight slants through the trees around here. (That is, when there is any sunlight to speak of - which there has been this weekend, hooray!)
I wandered abroad for only about 25 minutes on Friday evening. I tried out a number of photographs, several of which were failures. I'm always drawn to the patterns in the mud and the reflections in puddles, but quite often they don't come out anything like how I expected. So instead, here are a couple of upward-looking shots:
On Saturday I was fit to go a little further afield, walking as far as the fabric shop, where I needed to purchase some elastic for a certain sewing project I have finally begun (sorry, Becky!). Today I made it to church and back, and very much enjoyed the service.
My feet have been encased all weekend in a new pair of Toms shoes. (Not Thom's shoes*. That's different.) What I like most about them is how the manufacturer give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every single pair they sell to people like us... but I also like the way they're surprisingly comfortable - kind of almost like wearing a sock instead of a shoe. Noah likes the way they look stylish (or so he says). I'm also very fond of the fact that, despite the subdued black of their outer surface (purchased to wear to work), the inside is decorated with printed elephants, rhinos and lions. Even if they look boring, I know they're not.
* When I talk about wearing Thom's shoes, I mean the pair of red Converse trainers three sizes too big for me which my kind little brother gave to me as a birthday present after he'd worn them for a year or so.
I love the way the early evening sunlight slants through the trees around here. (That is, when there is any sunlight to speak of - which there has been this weekend, hooray!)
I wandered abroad for only about 25 minutes on Friday evening. I tried out a number of photographs, several of which were failures. I'm always drawn to the patterns in the mud and the reflections in puddles, but quite often they don't come out anything like how I expected. So instead, here are a couple of upward-looking shots:
On Saturday I was fit to go a little further afield, walking as far as the fabric shop, where I needed to purchase some elastic for a certain sewing project I have finally begun (sorry, Becky!). Today I made it to church and back, and very much enjoyed the service.
My feet have been encased all weekend in a new pair of Toms shoes. (Not Thom's shoes*. That's different.) What I like most about them is how the manufacturer give a pair of shoes to a child in need for every single pair they sell to people like us... but I also like the way they're surprisingly comfortable - kind of almost like wearing a sock instead of a shoe. Noah likes the way they look stylish (or so he says). I'm also very fond of the fact that, despite the subdued black of their outer surface (purchased to wear to work), the inside is decorated with printed elephants, rhinos and lions. Even if they look boring, I know they're not.
* When I talk about wearing Thom's shoes, I mean the pair of red Converse trainers three sizes too big for me which my kind little brother gave to me as a birthday present after he'd worn them for a year or so.
Friday, 11 May 2012
Monument
Last week's pleasing photo is not particularly pleasing... it's ok, but it was taken with my iPhone. My time last week was mainly taken up with going on the Year 5 Residential then being ill, which is my excuse for pretty much everything.
And another couple of photos showing what me and Noah got up to over the weekend (with me feeling steadily more queasy...)
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| Ashridge Monument |
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| Our first trip to an English Taco Bell! |
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| Noah feeding Marmite Marmite. She didn't like it. |
Marmite on the Sofa
This is my Pleasing Photo from two weeks ago (29th April). It's of our new cat, Marmite (who was much newer when the photo was taken!)
She's a very tricky cat to photograph (or is that just all cats?!) so I can see that I'm going to have to build up my skills before I get any really good snaps of her (although I like this one ok). She's very curious, but also extremely nervous... the phrase 'scaredy cat' springs to mind frequently, particularly when she scarpers upstairs at full speed just because somebody sneezes. She'll come over to be stroked but never for very long; hates being picked up; loves it when Noah plays laser pointer with her and has sat on my lap (or rather, on a cushion on my lap) only twice (both occasions involving considerable persistence on my part). She miaows a lot and has extremely soft fur. On the whole, we like having a cat :)
She's a very tricky cat to photograph (or is that just all cats?!) so I can see that I'm going to have to build up my skills before I get any really good snaps of her (although I like this one ok). She's very curious, but also extremely nervous... the phrase 'scaredy cat' springs to mind frequently, particularly when she scarpers upstairs at full speed just because somebody sneezes. She'll come over to be stroked but never for very long; hates being picked up; loves it when Noah plays laser pointer with her and has sat on my lap (or rather, on a cushion on my lap) only twice (both occasions involving considerable persistence on my part). She miaows a lot and has extremely soft fur. On the whole, we like having a cat :)
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