Sorry.

I don't know why I haven't posted any thing since the last entry, I really don't.

I've got a camera, and I have a camera on my mobile phone (ok, who doesn't). I take pictures with that on a semi-regular basis (mostly clouds and knitting). Right now, I'm having fun with distorting pictures by moving the phone as I take a picture. I've gotten a few with nice (not great) effects while doing that, but at the time, I just hadn't even thought about putting them on here.

I'll get a few ready over the weekend and I'll post some of them next week.

Yes I will.

But for now, here's one of them...

 

I was passing the train yards outside Piccadilly Station, Manchester and placed the phone on the window ledge and took a picture. I mostly like it. I'd have liked more track-sleeper definition, but the buildings aren't bad.

Later.

Off the cuff photo. . .

Well, I was out in the back yard and noticed the bees among the lavender.

This was the best photo of the ones actually with bees in them - they're very fast and very busy little things. *grin*.

(Taken with a mobile phone.)

Wow! A Photo!

This is of the Lake/river next to the wall near Lichfield Cathedral, taken October 2008. Yes, it's slightly out of focus, but it was done without a tripod at midnight (no filters and no post manipulating, either). I think the composition is

pretty. Considering.

I tried to get another picture a few months later when I'd taken a tripod with me, but the pictures were abominable. So I'll settle for this.

Later.

Photos - or lack of them.

I realise that there's not a lot of photos on here. I guess that my main problem is pickiness. I'm not confident enough to click, transfer, crop and upload. I should be, considering I've been taking pictures for over 35 years. I'm not perfect, as I've never taken a photography course, but I'm not bad. I should find the giraffe picture I took when I was younger (exact age forgotten), scan it in and post it.
We'll see.

As to the digital photos - well, there's lots of those in small viewing format, courtesy of Flickr, if you go to the other journal attached to this one.

Later.

Real Photo

I captured this one at the beginning of the month, around midnight, just after the rain had stopped.

It's a miniature rose bush, and as is typical for them, unscented. My three other rose bushes are 2 yellow - one pink-edged - and a pink, all full sized scented tea roses.

I'm hoping to eventually get another rose bush (not a tea rose), a scented biscuit coloured one - not bronze, but biscuit. They're out there.

Night.

Kitten photos

Yes, I'm being mushy. I've put dibs on a kitten (possibly two) from a litter that a cat of my Best Friend's had (yes, that IS an awkward sentence construction. Live with it.).

I've named her Apricot. The first one (cheesecake pose) is a photo I took the night of the day I arrived, and the second (sitting in handbag), is of the day I was leaving. She was originally on my coat, and I pushed her off, expecting her to jump down - she ended up on my bag. Not once, but twice - the second time - I'd turfed her out and put my handbag in the kitchen, and she planted herself there again (didn't get a photo of that one as I'd packed my camera away by that point and was waiting for the taxi).

She's got very pretty markings on her back, which I just couldn't capture - she's ordinarily an active little girl and just didn't want to be posed.

Shame - I also wanted belly shots - she's got a spotty belly. Num.

The other kitten I might have? Her name right now is Gizmo and she's a long-haired version of Apricot (more orange, though) with a black nose. SO cute. But my Best Friend's youngest girl wants her badly, and depending on what happens between now and December, I might have her.
I've got a few photos of her and I'll work on posting them.

Later. Got kitty supplies to search for.

I LOVE My Camera

Ok, maybe I'm not too fond of it's lack of willingness to capture violets and indigos if any other colours are there, but I really get thrilled by its super macro feature. Well, it is one of the primary reasons I bought it.

Take these couple photos, for instance. The first one is of the back of a pretty house spider. She's the dark smudge in the web underneath the Plug - look for the strands of webbing. So I set up, took photo - then realised I'd forgotten the light. Oops.



So I went and set one up, took the shot, and focused in on this:




Isn't it GREAT! You can even see the hairs on the legs. Whee!

Later.