A Summer's Day

Hello! 

It's been a long time since I have posted any photos and I'm very sorry about that. My life has been crazy and the camera has spent most of the last few months in it's case. These photos are from one day in the summer when I went for a walk with my parents and brother. I think it would make for a wonderful place to do a fashion shoot. I fell in love with the field,s that's for sure. I'll talk more about life at the end of this blog post. Enjoy the photos

For those who follow my book blog/Twitter/Deviantart etc, you will know that I've been working hard at my part time job as well as the Studio project I got back in January. The project is starting to come to a close after a lot of work. I have had no time to do photos or even draw what i want to draw. My Fiancée is also getting a transfer back from Sheffield to Manchester and we have found a place to rent so we are moving at the end of the month. So lots of things to sort out. Hopefully in the New Year, things will be settled and I will be able to go out and take more photos! I hope you all look forward to it as much as I do.

Fi

x

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

x

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine

"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." - Max Muller

A lovely quote which goes with the weather today. The sun is out and it is gorgeous outside! I wasn't going to stay in on my day off so here are some photos!

I woke up earlyier than I had planned (got to be up at 6.15 for the next 3 days after today for work :/ ) but the sun was shining early in the day. I decided to go out in the garden with my camera. As usual I was accompanied by my cat.
 He thinks no-one can see him.

The light on the water droplets made these images very blurry and somewhat abstract but I like these. I didn't edit them at all :D It's the first time images have done this and it's interesting to play with.

I then wandered over to Bramhall Park, just down the road from my house. Flowers, leaves and photogenic geese today.
Action by EliseEnchanted on DA





I love the colours on this photo.


My Moo.com business Cards arrived today. I chose a selection of my favourite photos to use. Here is what they look like





I have a photo shoot on the 7th so I don't think I'll post anything before then. I might do a "My Day in Photos" as I'm hopefully going to a wedding fair on Sunday (It'll only be on my phone and not my slr most likely) We'll see.

Have a good week

Fiona

xx

Mixed Up Ideas

So I've had a bit of a mad week. Was only meant to be working 26hours but ended up doing 31hours. I've had a 3 day break though and I'm back to work tomorrow. I also have a model to meet this week so expect some more photos later in the week! And I'm suppose to be helping a wedding photographer on Sunday but I need to get back in contact with her.


 So this post is full of two lots of photos. Some I took one night last week but didn't get round to doing anything with. Others I took today while we had a tiny bit of sunshine.







 This little doll I bought in Manchester last weekend. She was too cute not to get. Her body doesn't really move because her clothes are glued to her but her head turns. I adore her little curls and hat. I love how the detail shots came out above even in the dark. I don't often shoot in the dark but I want to start trying things where I can.



As I ended up outside I thought I would play with focus. Usually the foremost object is what I focus on so I decided to change it up a bit. I like to play with different idea's when I'm in the right mood.





I love how the colours on the one above came out. The silver and black stand out against the brown even though they are blurred. I think it's a really nice effect

Now some of you on Facebook may have heard me talking about my new film slr that my dad found and gave to me. It is a beautiful camera. So much so that I had to photograph it to show you. It's 30+ years old and you can tell on the bits connecting the strap. I will most likely get a new strap for it if I can get film for it and it works.







A very attractive camera and I already love the style of it. It is very hard to figure out how it works though. Its even goes down to F1.8 on the aperture ring. I'm still working out how to change the exposure but it seems to be in full working order. It even had its original case but it was pretty badly damaged and falling apart. My dad still has the external flash that goes with it and that even works too! I can't wait to get some film for it!

 I hope you all have a good week. I should be back with some more photos later in the week and beginning of next week assuming work doesn't mess me up again.

Fiona xx

Bramhall Park Ducks

So I was off work today and kinda bored.
I don't have many friends around these parts and I didn't have any models for this part of the week coz my hours had been shifted around somewhat
I decided I was going to go to Bramhall Park, then decided I couldn't be bothered. Then decided I might as well as otherwise I wouldn't have done any exercise today at all. I don't want my day's off to be too lazy







All the duckings were nearly fully grown. I did see them not long after they were born but they have lost most of their fluff now. There were also LOADS of geese about too. A lot of them sleeping.
I wondered around for about an hour overall, camera in hand, getting strange looks as usual. I went armed with my new 55mm-200mm lens and of course my macro filter. I'm glad I took my macro as I finally found a ladybird to take photos of! I've been trying to look out for them and had no look up to that point. I also saw a squirrel but it was just that little bit too fast and dark where I was stood so all the photos came out dark. Maybe I'll get lucky next time.













As usual lots of flower shots and flower macro shots. I want to shoot as much of flowers as possible because summer is quickly coming to a close. Everything is dying which is sad but that's just how things are. I'm not looking forward to winter though. Work is going to be not so fun if it snows considering I rely on trains to get to work. Anyway I'm getting a little ahead of myself there
Last but not least have a photo of some headphones. Not mine by the way, they were randomly there but I though it would make a nice photo, framed by white of the gate they were on