I was at my parents on Saturday night. They were barbequeing, as usual, and I was completely hypnotised by the patterns the fire was making. It was utterly beautiful and I had to take a photo immediately.
I'm often overtaken by the urge to photograph stuff. I have a great deal of enthusiasm and a very clear idea of what I want the picture to look like. Unfortunately, I'm not that good! I usually end up with very mundane snaps. With the advent of digital photography and photo editing software, things have become slightly less hopeless. Sometimes I can produce something that almost resembles the picture I have in my head. Mostly, I'm still a point and shoot girl.
Anyway, watching the fire and feeling pretty chilly, I realised that summer was all but over. I haven't blogged in months so I thought I'd take a look at my photo files and see what exactly, if anything, I'd done during the summer months. Here are a few...
Discovering the joys of the digital macro function on my camera! And bugging a poor, busy spider.
Indulging my daisy obsession.
Sunbathing on a beach in Devon. What? It was nice but not bikini weather!
Finding stones with beautiful lines and markings - fantastic.
The typical beach clutter that I adore - stones, driftwood, seaweed...
Stones and water
More stones and water - and just really cool shapes.
This was Project Garden Beautification - involving my family (those in the vicinity) and much hard work!
In the beginning.....there was turf.
In the beginning, the middle and most of the project....there was mess. Gulp!
Hidden treasures - these stepping stones were found buried under the grass. I'll be re-using them. I love to recycle this kind of thing.
The beginning of order - sort of!
The slate starts to go down.
We christen the cute little pot-bellied barbeque that my parents got me as a garden treat.
And the rain came!! Luckily we'd finished the barbeque at this point. Mother Nature.
So, those are a very few of the things I did during the summer. I also ran Race for Life - alas no photos as it was pouring and I didn't want to be carrying my camera around the track with me.
I've done a bit of writing - a very small bit. If I'm extremely lucky some paid work may come of it.
What I haven't done is learned to drive or managed to escape the insanity that is my current job. They are now on the list for next year. Of course I'll be 40 by then and all grown up and stuff. Sort of.
