Week 25/52 : Friendship

So the plan was to get some super cute photos of Rach and I this past weekend while she was up visiting. But the rain put a slight dampener on that :( It was pouring before we went out for dinner on Saturday night so we just took some photos inside...while my icky old camera and on camera flash. Many of you won't understand how horrible the words "On camera flash" are to a photographer. But, anyway! This photo of Rach was taken with my old camera also while we were enjoying dinner and cocktails at Chiquitos. Yum! I thought I'd go for the grainy instagram look...haha.

And this is what happens when you ask my Mother to take a nice photo of you...

I need to confess that this 52 project is no where near as enjoyable as my 365 project was. It is tempting to give it up...but, I won't. Instead, I'm just going to use a theme from Paint the Moon each week, rather than thinking up my own. I have used a few in the past, with slight adaptions. And, looking at the theme for their Week 25; 'Captured from Above', that's the opposite of my 'The View from Down Here', which I did plan on doing at some point...so there we go! Ha.

I like the theme for last week "Portraits Without a (Whole) Face Visible" so we'll go with that for Week 26...the half way point!

Week 24/52 : Rain or Shine

So, many of you will know that I was up in Lewis last week, and, for the first time ever, I was up on my own. I was excited to be going up, but not as excited as usual, due to the thought of being a loner on my birthday etc. But that soon passed, as I did a wee giddy dance when I walked through the living room of my Granny's old house.
I. Love. Being. There.
I unloaded the car (took a few trips...you'd think I was planning on moving up or something, I had that much stuff), then made some tea and toast, and settled down to watch Dirty Dancing. Good start to the trip!
The following day was my birthday, so I woke, rather early, to discover various text messages and Facebook notifications from lovely people and proceeded to make breakfast and watch The Fast and the Furious...because, let's face it, watching Paul Walker and fast cars is a great way to celebrate your birthday! Then I made lunch, and headed off to my favourite beach for the afternoon with my camera, in the beautiful sunshine! I sat on the empty beach and enjoyed my lunch, climbed a big rock while some tourists appeared and looked up nervously, ate my birthday cake, and took some photos!
Some of you may remember when Katherine and I went to Lewis last June, and I lost my sunglasses while on a wee walk along the coast...well, this year I decided to climb the hill behind Garry beach, and when I reached the top I discovered a loch (see bottom right image above), dumped my jumper, fleece, rucksack...and sunglasses on the ground and plonked myself down at the side of the loch. When I got up again to head back down the hill I packed my jumper and camera in to my rucksack, trudged down through the heather filled hillside (and almost slipped a few times), only to realise when I reached the bottom, that my sunglasses were neither over my eyes, or on my head...they were at the top of the hill. Sob. So, there are now two sheep roaming the hills with my sunglasses on.
The following two and a half days were filled with movies, food, tea, driving, walking, photo-ing sunsets, beautiful families, and lovely couples on the beach, and relaxing on the sofa by the window enjoy my surroundings. 
I. Love. Being. There.

*Note* The bottom left image was taken on Friday night, on my return to Vatisker after the first engagement shoot...the first time it rained all week. Oh! And the top right image is the side of a boat. YUM. I want a boat.

The theme for week 25 (...almost half way!!) is 'Friendship' :)

Week 23/52 : Texture

Mm mmm mmmm! I love texture!

Next week's theme is 'Rain or Shine', because I'll be out on the beach/cliffs/machar in Lewis, with my camera, tripod, camping seat and flask whether it's raining, or glorious sunshine!

Week 22/52 : Beauty in the Unexpected

I don't know about you, but I think this shot of these totally dying flowers is rather beautiful! They have since been binned, but isn't it wonderful what you can keep alive with just a quick push of a button?

This weeks theme is 'Texture'.