The Garra Fish experience..

Yesterday afternoon the girls and I had this done........  it was brilliant.  It tickled like mad at first ( my feet are extremely ticklish) but after a couple of minutes I got use to it and it was very relaxing.  We went here (borrowed their photo for this post) the ladies there were lovely and would happily go back again.  If anyone reading this has been thinking about having this done I highly recommend it..... (Yvonne - when I get back :) )
Then the evening was spent watching Harry Potter - the end of an era as Bernadette pointed out she has grown up with him (not literally) but you know what I mean.  A very good film, not as good for me as Lord of the Rings but still very good.  Even Mick said it was good!!!!!  so it must be good. lol



And finally....

street photography - well not strictly street, more sort of beach photography, taken the other night whilst Mick was fishing.  Street Photography is something I like to look at but not good at taking, be it due to shyness, lack of confidence or just not feeling 100% comfortable with  taking pictures of people going about their everyday lives minding their own business, intruding on their privacy.  I would love to be able to do it, I even went into town armed with my camera this morning with the intention of doing it but bottled out at the last minute and did some retail therapy instead "lol".  I tend to think how would I feel/react if some stranger started taking photos of me or my girls.  I know I wouldn't be too impressed so maybe that is why I don't do it or make more of an effort, maybe some would say I'm not committed enough!! Who knows, maybe on holiday I shall try and sneak a few in .... lots of maybe's in this post!!  Anyway here is my image.

 So I am now up to date "yeah" ... and this week's theme is wildlife - once again late in announcing it but it has been a busy week so far and I am meant to be on holiday after all!!

A different perspective

A flying visit to post my wkly photo for a different perspective - a photo of Mick fishing Sunday evening.  I sat the camera on the rocks as low as I could baring in mind the incoming tide. 

Weekly photo - so far behind!

I am so far behind on my weekly photos it is unbelievable, but by tomorrow I promise to be up to date. I have fallen behind for various reasons, one being so much going on at the moment that my mojo took a break for a bit, but I am delighted to say it is back. So here is my take on a self portrait, I thought long and hard about this one, I have never liked photos of me and although nowadays I am happy for them to be taken I don't regard myself as at all photogenic so I tend to pull silly faces instead!!! Very childish I know :)  So instead of silly faces or trying to look good I decided to take photos of things that make up me .... like so

Guess I ought to explain for those who don't know me.  Flip flops - I live in them all summer I have several pairs these one's here are my scruffy one's for gardening etc (in fact now I look at them they may even be Bernadette's, we have similar and I do pinch her's!!)  Tomatoes - I eat them all year round in any form at any time.  I always have a couple first thing in the morning whilst watering the greenhouse (which is where these are) one of my Uncle Lew's memories of me at 2yrs old was me sat on the dining room table having eaten my way through a bowl of tomatoes Aunty Mary had put there for tea!!  Nowadays I sit at the table :) My faithful trainers that have run many a Race for Life with me and are now helping me train for my challenged half a marathon.  Last but not least is one of my Panda's I adore them, yes I had a Panda as a child which I still have today although he is rather thread bare nowadays.  He is sat with my other love perfume my two favourite First and Serenity.  Then in the middle is me with my beloved camera and my new lens!!!!  But that is another story. So there you have it my self portrait.  I shall post the others tomorrow, just in time to start this week's challenge!!

Forgot the links to Louise's , Sam's and Yvonne's though Yvonne took her's for a Scrap class she is doing it fitted in with our weekly challenge. 

A Mallard ...

In the absence of any catch up weekly photos here is one I have just printed off for the exhibiton at Pine Lodge that is due to start on the 1st August.  Personally I just love the colours, plus it reminds me of warmer days not so long ago.  It is horrid today wet, windy and cold - but hey I live in Cornwall so what else should I expect??

The week that flew by....

...in a complete daze.  It seems like only hours ago that I was sat here posting to say no photos this week and here I am doing it again - no photos this week - so now two weeks behind.  It has been so busy this week with parents evening at work and the end of year performance by the children - they were brilliant, I was so proud of them.  Plus it was the village Garden and Craft Show yesterday which took up Friday afternoon with cooking, the evening setting out the hall and displaying the school children's exhibits that was from 4pm -9pm then back up at 7.45am - 6pm .... so a very long and exhausting end to the week, but it was a good show and it all went off very well so worth it.

I did have a break Thursday evening - a friend had asked me to go to see Dreamboats and Petticoats at the Hall for Cornwall.  It was so good, pure escapism.  I think that is what got me through the last couple of days.  If you like musicals and rock 'n' roll music it is a must to see.

So back to the weekly theme - which was a different perspective, Kathi has joined us, here are her photos.

Wkly theme- a different perspective

This week's photo theme is 'different perspective'.  My initial thoughts on this theme were looking for different view points to take a familiar scene.  Then I thought I would google different perspective and found all sorts (as you do when you google!!)          
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=different+perspective  found these on flickr which is similar to what I was thinking of. Then  I found these.   I am actually playing catch up this week as I haven't completed last week's self portrait yet but I will do it.  It is just so manic this week with end of term performance and the local Garden and Craft Show on this weekend, but there is so much behind the scenes work as with any event so I shall be tied up with that Wed and Friday evening then all day Sat.  It is always a good day and very well attended and.............. it also means I have completed one of my other 'pre mid life crisis' challenges which is to finish my jumper that I was knitting yeah :):) so pleased - admittedly I shan't be wearing it until the winter but it is done.  Will post a pic later.  As for the other challenges ...well... I can now run a mile without stopping 12 to go then I can enter a half marathon.  Bits for the others are in process as well, including those that haven't been published!!
Now off to sort out photos for Sat's show.

Monthly photo - June

Oops I forgot to post last month's comparison view from Australia and Cornwall - tut tut.  Here they are

Still looking very dry in Australia

 Still green here but dull and wet!!!!  How bland a sky is that ???

Weekly photo - slow shutter

Slow shutter was the theme this week and as I found myself in Fowey Thurs evening I had a go with slow shutter blurring movement and this is what I got.

A small boat coming into the harbour,

followed by the gig rowers returning from a training session.

It was a stunning evening with the sun going down but the sunset didn't really come together as expected and there were way too many people walking around to get any nice shots of the narrow streets lit up, hence I settled for these images.  I like the last two best because of the lighting on the houses and the fact that you can still make out the shapes of the rowers.