Week 15 - Complex

Another trek around the house and I came across my sons toy flying helicopter. Complex machinery! Done.....macro lens got another trip out for this shot! Cropped in to get the diagonal sweep of red (I do like red in an image). Minimum processing too. Great!

Week 14 - History

Ive had this old old, (very old!) book of photographs from my mothers side of the family. Edwardian/Victorian days gone by! In amongst the pages is a photo of Queen Victoria. Perfect for this weeks History shot!
Lens 50mm 1.4

Week 13 - Out of Context

What a tricky theme.....reallt struggled with this. I had a kind of idea in my mind but in reality it didnt really work.It was going to be a plate, knife and fork with the daffodil being the "food". Who eats daffs? Anyway.....compositionally it just wasnt working so I shot this and it will have to do. The daffodil in place of the spoon. Nice lighting and Im pleased that there wasnt much processing to do on it, virtually straight from camera which is good!  Used my macro lens & tripod

Week 12 - Emotion

So Ive rediscovered my macro lens with my Week 12 Emotion shot. I had thought about making one of my children cry by nicking their sweets but not wishing to be labelled a bad mother I took this instead.....a lucky find in my collection of buttons! I enjoyed using my macro lens. Hadnt used it for ages. (nor my tripod!) This Photo 52 project is certainly getting me to use my camera and equipment!

Week 11 - Reflection

I had a new toy for Christmas (a girl can never have too many lenses) A Lensbaby Composer. I see this lens as being a bit of a toy really, fun, some cool effects but its so not easy to master!!  I decided to persevere with it and try to get that sweet spot sharp. Not a good success rate but this was my best out of about 10 last night just messing about in my kitchen. I really should of been cooking dinner but hey, this is ART  plus I love my Le Creuset saucepans!!

Week 10 - Hands

Week tens theme - Hands. I initially thought of taking a couple holding hands, zoom in to get a close up from a distance. Then I thought of cute little baby hands but dont know any babies LOL then other end of the scale, an old persons wrinkly hands but although Im old, my hands arent quite wrinkly enough! So......another mooch around Leicester Square at the weekend and M & M World! Cheating really isnt it!! No fancy processing, just cloned out a few lights to get that background all black.

Week 9 - Passion

ooh what a topic!! The obvious shots of roses or chocolates came to mind or perhaps a shot of some protestors camping at St Pauls! Anyway, a walk through Soho. Got be be some shots to take there!! Came across this shop window.....doesnt it look like a magazine cover! Had the wrong lens on though (70-200mm) and the street was narrow so the shot filled the frame completely and cut off the "S" in "Everything's" so I increased the canvas in photoshop and cloned it in. Not easy and not happy with it so dont look too close!