Time flies

OMG, where has time gone?  In a career return, that's where. All fun, but where's the time for taking and making those precious pics.  Note to self: must make the time. Looking back at the summer I'm really happy I did make the time, and here are a few of my recent-ish best. Firstly Austria August 2012.

Beauty

Summer time, sunshine, and this is my sunshine.  So innocent and so beautiful, I can't help taking pics of her.

Eyes

Experimental depth of field

An exercise way back when I first got my 50m lense - now I rarely use anything else.

Solec, Warsaw

Views of Solec, Warsaw. 

Summer holidays in PJs at home, roll on these days!

A little apprehensiveness.

The face of a little girl who had been completely drenched in the rain at Sea World in San Diego and is saying "phew, what a day and boy am I glad to be in the dry."  

This shot was taken on the beautiful island of Islay in Scotland, on our summer holiday last year.  Rory is wearing his Daddy's kilt, and 30 years ago or so, this could easily be his Daddy playing at the OK rock in Port Charlotte. Happy childhood memories.

There's something about the summer that takes me back to my childhood. So I've been experimenting with some 70's style lighting and found its ok to let the rays into your pics now and again to get that warm hazy feeling.

Haven't been posting for a wee while because its been hot and sunny here in Warsaw.  On days like that its hard to take good pictures and its hard to stay indoors processing pics.  One evening last week I did capture this pose.  When my little ones were babies it was all the trend to have the little feet photo, here's the same pic five years on and not-so-little feet.  

Children are wonderful to capture.  This is Emma.

This friend is lovely on the outside and lovely on the inside.  You rock Nicky.

 

This simply says 'mummy, I'm sleepy'

"Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories."---Dave Brenner

Spent a lovely evening with such good friends last night.  This is Agnes, she's gorgeous.

Landscapes are not my thing, but how surprised and amazed when I downloaded the pics to find this stunning memory of my team taking in sunset on Dante's Peak in Death Valley, California when we went there in January.

Must stop posting, it will soon be time for bed,.  And here is the road to that sleepy haven in our lovely home.

It's not just about photos, pics, images.  This is the first and probably last time I will show myself on my blog, but here is a little non-narcissistic experiment in self-portrait.  

I've resisted the temptation to blog for some time now.  I've often thought of blogging as a kind of therapy, a chance to get out into the open all rubbish going around one's head and feel some kind relief afterwards.  Or a bit of self-appreciation, or shouting out to people "hey look at me!"

Well, don't worry folks, the purpose of my blog is to make me do more of what I love and share it with you in the hope you too will like it.  And what's that I actually do?  Well, I don't like saying I'm a photographer, because my training has been pretty basic, but what I think I do is see interesting aspects of people or objects, appreciate them, and then try to capture that.

So I start my blog with some pics of people very dear to me - my beloved children and husband - I hope this blog makes you proud, you are so special.