Northwich.

Went for a walk through the lovely town of Northwich the other day. Armed with my camera and a tele-zoom lens.
I must say, I was rather surprised at how pretty the little town looked in the sunshine. Never thought that Northwich could look good. Admittedly i didn't venture into the town centre, I remained at the outskirts but it really did look lovely.
LOOK!

Three very pink trees's. the third image is my favourite out of them all. I think its because of the vibrant green behind the pink, rather than just a solid pink image.

Taken from the midpoint of Castle hill in Northwich, these two images are almost birds eye view. My favourite of the two is the top one where it is literally just the top of the house that can be seen. Its a nice compostion of lines in a variety of directions.

Gettin' a close up of this flower was difficult considering i'm still learning the lens. Not particularly fussed on the image however I do like the composition, because the subject isnt in the centre of the frame.

And finally a picture of a tree..
This tree still seems rather autumny, what with the red leaves and all. I like the feeling of this image, its a little mixed buh it fun. The two colours work well together and neither dominate the frame.

Theres my pretty little walk round the edges of Northwich. I hope you agree with me?!

SU Conservatory

This post sounds a little dull i realise. However I have spent the past two days sat in MCC Student Union Executive Committee Office with a fellow student officer going through mass amounts of paperwork, filling in forms and finding out what we could change to make our union stronger. We got a lot done in all honesty. Anyway, I found at one particular point that I just had to take some pictures, the paperwork was getting a tiny bit much.

I like the bright colours spread out through this image in small clumps. The unorganised desk also adds to the atmosphere of the photograph. It is though my tatty handwriting you can see on the note-pad (proof we were working!)

Again it is the bright colours I like the most about this image. As well as the fact that Emilys outline is visable via a reflection i the mac screen. The daffodils add that bit more colour and nice feeling to the photograph as well.
Some might think that this image is just a cropped version of the one above when in fact it isn't, it's just zoomed in further. I think this is why i prefer this image, there is less going on and it still shows what was going on.

The third and final image is Emily Spiers, my fellow officer I have spent the tow days with. Her company is probably the only thing that stopped me wanting to shoot myself.. haha.

Daffodils

We only have two in our garden this year, I have no idea where all of last years have disappeared too. We seemed to have hundreds of them this time last spring. I decided it best to photograph these two poor daffodils incase they too fail to return next year.

This first daffodil has more of a tonal range due to the two different shades of yellow present in the flower. Something has clearly had a good munch on one of the petals as well.

I personally prefer this image of the daffodil. I'm not sure why, it could just be because no little creature has been eating it for its dinner so it is fuller, I really don't know.

Self Portrait.

So you've seen my studio shoot. And my location shoot, for this portrait project. I suppose it's only fair that I should show you my self portrait as well.

Its very abstract and trying to figure out what was what proved a challenge. Not even I could remember where it was taken (thats pretty bad i know!) Eventually though it was Danni that solved the mystery.

The image should be a simple monotone one however the scanner seems to have added a slight green tinge to the image. Not really sure why thats happened. But you get the gist of the picture. Good look trying to figure it all out, Im not going to explain. That would be too easy, too nice :)

Massey Ferguson 135

Flicking my way through magazines today at work, unexpectedly came across the photograph below. I took it the other week and emailed it off to Classic Massey, had no idea that it would be printed in this issue though. Was a lovely surprise.

National Conference 2011

Its been a while since I last blogged and I suppose that one doesnt really count does it? Ahh well.
Been a busy week. Attended a 3 day conference organised by the NUS with a fellow exec officer, Emily Spiers (sustainability officer) and found it great fun and incredibly interesting.
A lot of voting was involved, my poor arms have never been flung up and down so many times. New delegates for the National Executive Committee along with finding out plenty of information on how to improve our own exec, we also learnt more of the actual damage these costs will cause.
Back to the point (being a photography blog) I did take plenty of images whilst there. they aren't very good, I didn't go prepared for most environments and so struggled a little. timing as well was limited due to the jam packed schedule.
Still, heres a few of the best.

Reflection in the over head baggage area.

Passing by places

and again..

In the conference - speaker is Usman Ali (VPHE)

Balloon at the fringe "cuts cuts cuts"

View of the Sage from Quayside.

Bridges.

Out of focus reflective image of the bridge lit up.

Inside the Sage.

View of the Sage at night.

Viewing the bridges out of the Sage windows.

Old building reflected in new.

Fellow exec officer, Emily.

Train journey home. Evening reflection in the window, out of fosuc due to movement and darkness of the train.

Playing in the garden.

My cousin Menna, (model for a previous post) is at that age now where absolutely everything she does is superbly cute and I daren't go anywhere with her unless I have my camera to hand.
Over the weekend she learnt to drive, with my Grandads assistance of course. He was moving the morris and mini van out of the garage and well Menna seized the oppurtunity to have her photo taken some more..

I realise she doesn't appear to be moving very far, but she was. These are just the best photos of her in the old morris. The mini van on the other hand..

Plus, before you say anything, I know these photographs are particularly impressive from the artistic point of view. There is just something about them I absolutely adore and couldn't not post them.

When not in the car, Menna did approve of Grandads shoulders for her transport. Using what little hair he has left as a handle to hold on. Bless her. This was taken on the way to let the ducks out of there little house.

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Got to keep a close eye on those bloomin' ducks ya' know?

This final image, is a particularly impressive one from the artistic point of view. Or i seem to think so. As does my Nan.
It is by far the best portrait I have ever shot. I don't know what you think though? You could disagree for all i know?

So there yah have it, Mennas day playing in the garden with my Grandad. She's so unbelievably cute, I do love her.