View From February

I'm a little late with my view for February  but wanted to try and photograph the moon as the view from my little craft room this month.  I've seen so many stunning shots of the moon.  It was far more difficult than I thought trying to get some of the trees and the moon in focus and I really need to practice this more.

But this is what I managed for February

and finally just catching a bit of the sunrise - I doubt I'll be awake in time for this for a while

What a difference a day makes

I don't often take part in year long challenges or shall I say continue with them for very long but when I saw a link for this one on Suzy's blog Sea Glass and Sand I decided I really liked the idea of it.

The challenge is HERE  at Lucky Snapping in 2013 and is the View Challenge.  I'm a little late in starting as it should have been taken last week.

I chose the view out of my little craft room looking over the garden towards the farmers fields and the woods. I took my photo yesterday

I had to take the same view again as it looked so different with all the snow we had today.  What a difference  a day makes.

I'm so looking forward to seeing the changes over the seasons and can see all the photos making it to a lovely mini book

12 Days 2012

I've been taking part in Cheryl Johnson Christmas photography workshop again this year and have thoroughly enjoyed all the assignments and again learned so much. When I did this last year I did not have my DSLR and have actually found it much easier this time than when I only had my bridge camera

The final assignment was to make a a collage or slide show of some of your photos.  After looking at some of the slide show programmes I decided to do mine in photos hop. Not sure if this has been a mistake as I have had loads of trouble trying to upload to the forum. I uploaded it into flickr but seemed to loose loads of quality. Not sure what the quality is like here

Portrait Photography Workshop

I'm currently doing a 4 week photography work shop on how to photograph people by Cheryl Johnson
This week was to use an adult model - my wonderful prospective daughter in law Helen obliged. It was hard to tell who was the most nervous but we did end up enjoying the session. I found it easy to choose my location for the shots but not so easy to direct, but we muddled through and I'm quite pleased with these