Frosty

A cold and somewhat frosty day(mostly de-frosted by the time we went out lol) today but a good day for a walk.

We went to Happy Valley and had a good 2 hour walk, cutting through Bramhall Park on the way back home. None of these photos are from Bramhall Park though, for a change.

It was a good walk, I spent most of it talking to my dad about my life. Well, what I'm going to do about my life this year. There isn't something specific that I am good at. I like lots of things: Photography, Writing, Drawing and Illustration. So the plan is to push forward with them, enter competitions for photography and writing. Use contacts to get involve with people who might be able to offer me advice about doing Children's picture books. Do more work in all these areas.

I was thinking about going back to college but Stockport College are useless in getting back in contact with me and it was only an A level. I could do a Nation Diploma Level 3 part time but its in Didsbury at Manchester college's campus. But! I still don't know If I want my career to be photography. The problem I have is a lot of people can do what I can and I need to push myself out there. Show myself to people and make contacts.

There might be some promise for next year but I have to start now to push forward this year. I'm going to work hard on Cross and Pike, and create the children's picture books I want to make even if its just to see if I can. I want to take as many photos and improve as much as possible on my own.

I dunno when the next lot of photos will be up, got a lot to think about and need to split my time between everything. I do hope to organise some shoots soon

Fiona

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Read my round up of 2011

I wrote a blog post of the last 12 months here: Visit my other blog to view the post

I'm hoping in the new year I will be able to do more photography, we'll have to wait and see what happens.

In the meantime, have a photo of what my Fiancee and I ate for dinner on New Years Day :D A big Roast :D most likely enough for 3 or 4 people

Phone picture as per usual, sorry!

Edit: Also, thinking about doing posts about some of my favourite but unknown photographers that I see on Deviantart.com and around the internet. What do you all think?

Fiona

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Busy Busy Busy

So it's been a while since I took photos. I know! Sorry!

It's been work work work at the moment but I took some photos at my mum's birthday of her amazing cake. I then went to Sheffield with my camera, finally!

This is me reflected in a giant metal orb with water flowing over it. You can find them near The Winter Garden's in Sheffield.

This building was just amazing. Hidden out of view of the main streets. It almost looks like some crazy object rather than a HUGE building. I think it's one of my favourite photos of this blog post.

I don't know how this flower is just surviving but it is. In a barren small park in Sheffield city centre. I love how the colour stands out against the murky dead plants in the background.

I don't think I'll have any more photos till after Christmas and/or New Year so Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

Fiona

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From Sheffield to home

A bunch of semi-recent photos. Some from my Camera and some from my phone, so sorry for the bad quality!

Capturing the fog as I left Sheffield and was sat on the train home. At one point I couldn't see anything except the bit of track next to the train. 

My lovely cat being silly. He loves to play and this is like a hiding place for him. I find it amusing that you can't see his eyes either.

This just made me laugh SO much. The Nerd in me, anyways. Operation GOTHAM. Sorry, is Stockport waiting for Batman to save the day? I just found it so funny.

Trying to capture the sheer amount of rain falling in Stockport. Failed because again this was on my phone. You can see how the ground is though!

This! OMG this! I saw this and I nearly let out a squee like a small child! You put money on the fish plate and when the cat thinks your not looking, it'll swipe it into the box. It's just too cute

My current list of books to read. Click on the image to go to my blog that talks about books!

Sorry for lack of photos but I'm hoping to take my camera to Sheffield next time I go (I know I said that last time but I WILL this time)

Fiona

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Take a walk on the wild side

Well, not really the wild side, it was Lyme Park.

Yes, I have photographs! Only been nearly a month since I got the chance to. My parents decided to go for a walk and I went with them along with my camera. I still need to use up my film camera but not sure what to take photos of for that.

I was trying for ages to get a photo of the light coming through the clouds and I like how this one turned out 

Not many photos because I wanted to keep up and the light wasn't great so a lot of them came out blurred anyway. Not my best photos either but these are just a selection from the 60 I took.

I hopefully will have 2 photos shoots with models in the new year as I don't really have time right now. I need to time to find a new place to shoot photos too.

Take care everyone and hopefully i'll come back with some more photos in December.

Fiona

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Away we go!

I'm really sorry that I haven't been keeping up as much with my photography as much as I would have liked.

Things have been a bit mad with shifts changing at work and going to stay with my other half in Sheffield. He moved last week.

This means I haven't been able to fit in much time for going out to take photos or arrange photo shoots (I am working on it though, I promise)

As I write and read more than I take photos at the moment (because I do it on the move to work and to Sheffield either on my tab or with an actual book) I have created a blog that will run beside this one that is all about what I love to red and write. Reviews of books and snippets of my new writings :D

http://themidnightfantasy.blogspot.com/

I hope you can all forgive me, I will try to take photos again soon, I promise!

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I remember them

Hello!

I know, I've been missing for a while from my blog. I have no real excuse other than I haven't been taking photographs lately. I have a bit more time off now so hopefully I'll get to take some more soon!

I went on a day trip to York yesterday (already feels like ages ago) to see my much missed friends from uni. I had forgotten just how much I missed them and to be honest I found it very hard not to cry when I was going to leave.

So here is a blog post post with some of my favourite photos from the trip :D

Ryan also had his camera and was playing with lens flares so I had a go too!

I love colours of leaves and these trees had such amazing colours when the sunlight hit. Seriously, me in parks with a camera, I could spend hours there!

I'm really impressed with how this photo came out. The squirrels were very tame and we managed to get quite close.

I hope you enjoy!

Fiona

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