Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Cloud 23
A view from the Hilton bar - Cloud 23, Manchester.
Nathan, my sister and her husband went there on Monday night after a very delicious meal at Dimitris, a Greek restaurant on Deansgate which is the road you can see in the photo. We had some rather yummy but expensive cocktails! In the background you can just see the Manchester Wheel which I took a photo of a while back. And of course there is a reflection of the bar at the right hand side. I really quite like the mixture of images in the picture where you can't quite tell what light comes form where.
I'm on holiday at the moment, in cornwall, and am only online in a cafe so may not get on again for a few days. I shall be taking photo's of course but it may be a while before I upload them!
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Dinner!!
We had a "proper" Sunday dinner today. Not a roast, as you can see, but stew and dumplings. I was going to do a beef steak and kidney stew but the girls still struggle to chew meat like that and it always feels a waste, so I bought beef sausages instead.
I think one could "challenge" my use of the word stew as the majority of cooking was done in the oven which would make it a casserole I believe? But despite the semantics, it tasted and looked delicious. Not a drop was spared nor wasted!
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Sunflowers
Piggy Bank
Yesterday was a good day because I bought myself some new items for my camera!
I now have a nice new bag that can fit everything in, including not camera items. I also bought a new zoom lens, a 50mm lens and an adapter to convert the 50mm into a macro lens. :-D I shall be getting more acquainted with them over the coming days and weeks!
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Homegrown
My tomatoes are starting to ripen, at last!!
They've been growing gradually over the summer and I'd just begun to give up hope of them ever going red, and low and behold here we have two very yummy looking little cherry tomatoes. There's quite a few more on three different plants but they're all green just now.
Modelling on Mon 19th
Monday, 19 October 2009
Portait
It's been quite a while since I took a photo of myself I believe. I am thinking of doing something to my hair but can't quite decide. I must say that my glasses are so much nicer than the ones in the previous portrait!
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Thurs 15th - Stained glass
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Squishy close up
I took about 60 photo's of her and this is the best I came up with which isn't that great! She was watching something cbeebies in nature on the Mac and kept moving, in poor lighting. It is very frustrating. I wanted to get a really nice crisp close up shot. Perhaps that is too much to ask with a toddler?!
Fake Flutterbys
Monday, 12 October 2009
Waiting for a bus
On my way home from university.
I think this piece of art work or 'graffiti' is great and really brightens up the street. To take a photo of it in the reducing light meant a long(ish) exposure which resulted in pretty patterns from the surrounding street lamps and passing vehicles. I love these types of photos.
Bin
Another facebook friend inspired photo! (i.e. I request some ideas and this is what I get given :-) ) It's actually quite handy as I really had no ideas for a photo yesterday but I guess it doesn't make for the most interesting shot unless I take a lot of time over it!
Here you can see an empty orange carton which I assume Nathan and the kids drank at some point during the day as I don't recall drinking any orange jiuce! Also some bits of left over tea which regularly happens as the girls rarely seem to finish everything on their plates. We had polenta, olives, some veggies and brie :-) A bit of a mix. There's also the hint of some plastic packaging in there but not sure what that's from. All in all a rather unexciting bin full wouldn't you say?
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Friday, 9 October 2009
Cake Baking
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Oct 6th - Office creating
As I am now a student, Nathan is very kindly allowing me into his office space. I have my own desk for my laptop, and a very cool "techy chair". We decided to make it more homely and warm (because it is actually just half of the garage with no real flooring etc.) but that involved emptying everything into the kitchen, which has proved rather space and time consuming!
Monday, 5 October 2009
Picadilly Gardens by night
Sat 3rd October
The Last Fortnight
Blog update
Morning all!
I am pleased to say that my blog will be up and running again from today. Very sorry for the temporary break, but ever so occasionally personal life has priority and photography has to take a back seat. No really, it's true!
Anyway, like I say, I've taken a couple of photos over the past few days and all being well I'll upload them this evening. Have a good day.
Shona
I am pleased to say that my blog will be up and running again from today. Very sorry for the temporary break, but ever so occasionally personal life has priority and photography has to take a back seat. No really, it's true!
Anyway, like I say, I've taken a couple of photos over the past few days and all being well I'll upload them this evening. Have a good day.
Shona
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