A great day.

Been a great day today, a walk with a friend along the Pentewan Trail, finding another phone box to photograph (doesn't take a lot to make me happy you know lol), a pasty for lunch, some scrapbooking..... yes you did read that right, scrapbooking, then a swim in the sea with a very close encounter with the huge jelly fish that are abundant in our waters at the moment, could not believe the size of it.  My friend touched it with her feet and it completely freaked her out, which I thought was hilarious as she had spent the last ten minutes telling me there was nothing to be scared of swimming in the sea.  She does it all the time I don't.  I am rather  very, lets be honest, extremely nervous of swimming in the sea due to an over active imagination and shadows - yes jaws, the loch ness monster and thousands of other Karen eating creatures lurk in the dark waters down here just waiting for me to dip my toe in there!!!  Anyway she is helping me over come my slight fear of swimming in the sea, well not so much a fear just a paranoia that I shall die an edible death.

 

This it the harmless creature that caused us to do a Scooby Doo swimming impression lol

 

 

 

Kathi has a much better photo on her blog  taken actually in the water.  Mine was taken whilst dangling over the cliff edge 200ft up looking down on this one, hence quality, seriously zoomed in.

 

My contribution for the Lucky 7's challenge today is something crafty - which was Kathi's suggestion for yesterday - I am not known for my conforming!!! 

 

 

 

Yes I am still working on my 50th album and really like this one, I lifted the idea from Nathalie .

 

Linking with Lucky 7's in 2014

Learning day 2

This week's quotes for us to blog about are:-

 

“ Anyone who keeps learning stays young” Henry Ford

 “You cannot open a book without learning something” Confucious 

 

So my learning for today has been how to create a contact sheet in CS6. A quick google on U Tube produced a fantastic tutorial and contact sheets produced in seconds, it has taken me longer to sort out the printing!!!  Here are two of the six done :)

As you can see these are from my telephone box project.  Think I am going with the landscape format and the 50mm lens on a full frame camera. Though it will be interesting to see what Colin and the other students on the course think.

I have spent today photographing the latest creation from Button Moon for their prints and website.  Such a lovely pair of ladies.

A sneak peek of the princess!!

 

Telephone Project

The first two images of my telephone box project,

 

This one is by one of the clay pits, totally off the beaten track and smashed up :(

 

This one is in the village of Caerhays, still working

 

Neither have been worked on and it was raining when taken, not ideal but when Mick says would you like me to drive you around so you can take photos? who am I to point out that it is raining!!! well it wasn't when we set off lol. I took several shots of each box as I am not fully set on what format I want this project to follow apart from showing the telephone box in it's environment.  Over the next week I shall create a contact sheet of all the images I have taken and then get a better idea of the format I want to use.

 

Fifty album

Here are another couple of pages from my album

 

Yesterday I said I had come up with a new project, I am still doing the car show rooms, but as they have to be taken at night and most of our evenings have been wet lately, I have had to stop for the moment.  After my post the other day re projects and reading your comments I some how came up with the idea of photographing telephone boxes to this subject matter but I have done and I am really quite excited about it.  I am mainly looking for red telephone boxes, so far I have five photographed and another one I know of that is in someone's front garden so shall have to knock on the door and ask first.

I was hoping to post two I took on Sunday, but my computer is misbehaving at the moment and will not let me upload photos, although I have managed the above two it has stopped working now, so will post this and try again later with the boxes. xx