When I were young..

I found some pics of me from when I was a nipper, thought I’d share and make you all giggle.. I had blonde hair when I was small – now its very dark brown – how did that happen? I think I may have needed a wee in this pic 😀 And one from the hole in the tree as per my earlier post…

favourite place

Everyone has a favourite place in the whole world. It might be your garden, somewhere you went on holiday, your bed (as in the case of Jay, who loves her bed more than anywhere else) or somewhere you grew up. In my case, this place is Oldbury Woods, nr Ightham in Kent. I grew up a few hundred metres from this place and spent…

castles (part3)

So, the last castle we actually went to visit properly was Hever Castle, only 30 mins drive from my mum and dads house. Hever Castle is another fairytale castle, complete with moat, drawbridge and portcullis, surrounded by sculpted parklands with a maze and a Tudor village too. Its a fabulously beautiful place. Similar to the others, it has its foundations in 13th Century, with…

castles castles and more castles (part 1)

The thing about England (and the rest of the UK come to that) is that almost everybody lives in a castle. There are simply millions of the things scattered about the country that if you don’t live in one, you live next door to one or a pile of stones that used to be one. I’m not even kidding – where I grew up…

more tall tales..

so, how far did I get? I’ve been so busy and also sick (with special thanks to my children for their so far unblemished record in handing over the lurgey baton when I see them) that blogging was placed on the back burner. So, Easter Sunday was spent at my sisters: Ava is my youngest sister’s smallest child – she’s ever so sweet, very…

leaving on a jet plane..

I’m going back to England for a couple of weeks so I can spend some time with my children, so I expect my blog may well be full of little snippets of what we’ve been up to rather than anything dramatic and amazing. I don’t really like the long flight – I don’t sleep well on the plane and there’s not really time the…

getting old

I’m suddenly noticing how fast my kids, my daughter in particular, are growing up. I was looking at photos on Flickr and its really clear how much Ella has grown since I left the UK. Not that much time has passed really, 18 months or so, but in that time, she’s changed loads. I don’t notice it in myself that much, I don’t really…

new toys

I just bought some new stuff for my camera as I’m very interested in long exposure shots. I got a B&W ND110 filter reduces light by 10 stops so enables long exposures during the day (interesting, but not *that* useful) or more importantly, longer exposures at or around sunset. The longer the shutter is open on the water/rock/beach sunsets that I like, the smoother…

having said I was crap..

…I take it all back. Well, not all of it, but some. back onto the subject of cool black and whites and living the 60’s Parisian cafe shooters dream I went through some shots of Melbourne again and decided to convert a few to black and white to see if I could get that street photography look, and well I’ll be buggered – some…

club night

I go to a photography club every month in order to learn from other people, but also to have my photos judged by some top class judges from locally in Western Australia and also nationally. I’ve only been going for about 6 months, and so far, I’ve managed to get at least one photo each time I’ve been in the top 3 of the…