Living for Light

I know it’s been a while.

I’m sorry.

I’ve been busy. And uninspired.

Okay, about these first. They are the first photographs of the new year. I have had opportunities to do sunrises, sunsets and aeroplanes and somewhere, my mind has been saying meh. But today while going about my lawful business of making tea, I was hit [...]

I’m not one hundred per cent sure where that necklace is at the moment.

I’ve always liked this.

This grew in my garden. In fact, I watched the plant for a year thinking helpful things like “I don’t need 15 runners, can’t I just have some red, sweet, fruit please?” Eventually today, one of them was ready to eat. So I clipped it off the plant, took a few photographs of it as [...]

Last year, at a charity plant sale at work, I bought two strawberry plants. They spawned 15 runners, all of which I dutifully planted, 13 of which made it through the snow and about 5 of which have managed to survive still further. The mammy plants are also still alive.

One of the spawned runners and [...]

I’m not a Radiohead fan. They’ve never really spoken to me but I heard Street Spirit for the first time on Wednesday and there are elements of it that just really appeal to me. I am not sure why.

Anyway, this is from the front garden; I took pictures of it before it faded. I’m not [...]

This from the recent winter. As I have plants in the garden that are not currently dead, I am hopeful of no further snow.

Via LinkedIN, I’m subscribed to a bunch of groups and get discussion emails every day. A few of those are photography related. Anyway, from the Canon EOS Digital Group today, came an [...]

More from the Christmas morning selection box

Word has it the cold weather is on its way back. arggh.

Okay – some plugging. Julie is flogging very nice handmade photographic calendars here. I’ve seen her prints. I wouldn’t be plugging them if they weren’t worth flogging.

Richard has a very ominous moody sky here. I’d like [...]

It rained yesterday.

I have a macro lens.

and a clothes line

and a large population of spiders in the garden.

I like this.

ETA: and so did the nice people at Pixie where it has been voted TOTD. Yay.

I’ve come to the conclusion that other people are better at selecting jewellery for me than I am. This is from one of my friends who thought a necklace that featured some element of the sea was suitable for someone like me. The blue piece of glass is seaglass. You can collect seaglass on most [...]