Bye 2011

Another year gone

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas

Today I managed to get some shots of the wee ones, though they were mainly snapshots. Though I think they managed to captured the chaos that is Christmas morning (I am so thankful that they calmed down by the afternoon)

Happy Winter Solstice

Happy Winter Solstice.

I have managed to make some progress with my sorting through photographs. I have been through January's pictures and I have managed to get rid of 8GB of photographs.

I still have a lot to do as I need to sort through last years pictures as well.

The big challenge that I need to face is deleting pictures with my wee ones. I have done it before, but now there is a mental block. It will sound silly, but I feel that by deleting pictures with them in, I am not valuing their presence, and by deleting their pictures something bad will happen to them as a result.

For now though as long as I can get rid of the other pictures then that is good enough.

I am also going to start another one object 365 days project. I think this will be great for me as it will get me using my camera ever day and thinking of new photographs that I can get.

I am also thinking of getting a light box as well. I think that will open a lot of possibilities for my photography.

It is the start, but I am really feeling hopeful about getting my mojo back.

Really have to get something done

For various reasons my photography has really taken a back seat. I have been struggling to make any progress.

I really must do something, so the next step is that I really need to set up a plan of action and do something about it.

It really became apparent to me how long my lapse has been when I see what others have achieved when we started off at a similar time. It made me realize that I need to start doing something now instead of just plodding along. I know that I too can achieve, I just need to get the motivation back.

Another thing that I am going to do is go through the photographs that I have taken this year and delete the pictures that are not good enough and do something with the ones that are.

11-11-11

All the elevens :)

Getting shots

I have started builing a good collection of shots that I have been happy with.

It has been good to do that, as for a while I was not happy with the shots that I was getting. Though that was understandable as I was not finding any decent shots.

As soon as I have got myself organised I am going to start spending time each day to developing my photography skills.

Getting focused again

While the best time for me to get focused will be when my wee ones start school I need to start getting my mind back on track. I have wandered along without a goal.

I need to work out what I want to do and then work out my plan of action.

I do know one thing. I will not do wedding photography. I am not going to dismiss portrait photography, but I do not think I will go for that either (I think if I am going to go for portrait photography I would go for candid shots rather than posed shots)

I met up with a friend that I met through Flickr recently. It was really nice to meet her and we went out for a trip to the beach. I love going to the beach. Here are a couple of shot I got that I have managed to get to edit:

Boat club: (I love buildings that are interesting shapes)

Church window:

Getting out and taking pictures

After seeing the pictures that I am submitting for the gallery, I have been inspired to get out and take more pictures. I have been noticing the flowers again this year (I was not last year) and I am happy with the shots that I have been taken. I think I am getting ready for when the wee ones start school and I will have more time to really apply myself to my photography.

Here is one of the shots that I have got recently:

Happy Star Wars day

May the fourth be with us all.

My prints arrived today and I have decided that as I was given six frames that I will be putting in six pictures.

It looks so funky seeing my pictures framed. I am really happy with how they look and I will be getting a picture of them before I hand them in. It is the first time that I have seen one of my photographs in a frame.

Exhibition

I have decided to submit five pictures to the exhibition. I am cutting it fine though. I am so lucky that I will be given five picture frames and I have ordered the prints for them. Hopefully they will arrive in time.

Supermoon

I was worried that I would not be able to get any shots of the full supermoon tonight, but thankfully the sky cleared and I was able to get some good shots of it.

Here is what I managed to get:

It does look really funky, so I feel very lucky to get the shots that I have done.

Photography competition

I did not do so well in this photography competition.

He said that two of my photographs did not fit the set subject. I can see how he decided it, however I know that it did fit into it.

Though he did say some good things about the picture that I submitted that did fit the subject. He said that he liked the angle that I worked at and liked how I had tried to be different and that it did work. He also complimented the composition of one of the pictures that did not make it in and I can understand when he pointed out something in the background. I will edit that to see how that changes it.

Entered another competition

Yestreday I should have gone out to take some new pictures for the next photography club competition, but I forgot all about it.

Thankfully I had not left it too late and I was able to get some shots taken today. I edited and E-Mailed them off tonight. I am not sure how they will do, but i enjoyed taking them and I am happy with them.

I think I will try to get some printed ones submitted as well before the end of the season.

These were the shots that I took (the competition was urban decay)

Very pleased

That I got the shots that I did of the flooding as today it was back to normal.

I think tonight I will have a read through one of my photography books. I might have a look at the cs4 book. Hopefully not that much has changed.

Flooding

As the ice and snow has been melting, this has produced a lot of water. As I was walking to collect my eldest son from school I noticed one area that had flooded. I have not seen it this bad, so I made sure that I got a picture of it.

Posted again on flickr

For the first time this year. I have manged to upload a picture onto Flicks. I really need to make sure that I do this severeal times a week. Even if I just manage twice a week then that would be good enough.

This was the picture that I uploaded. It was a picture that I took in early December. (I really need to go through my pictures and delete the duplicate pictures)

Cancelled

Well I have cancelled my Digital Photo subsctiption.

Now I need to sort through the unread magazines that I have got and keep the articles that will be useful to me and get rid of what I do not need.

I also need to start going online and finding articles that would be helpful for me.

Here is one site that I have found that gives tips for photography.

Digital Photography School

I have quickly found some CS5 help as well:

CS5 tutorial

Russell Brown CS5 tips

Goals for 2011

These are my goals for 2011:

1. Learn more about CS5
2. Create some interesting images using CS5.
3. Cancel my Digital Photo subscription.
4. Find some photographic techniques online and compile them for easy access.
5. Read the Photography newsletters that I have been sent to my E-Mail address.