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Garden moodboard: June
I love my garden, but it sometimes feels as if I am in constant battle with it. And it with me. June moodboard, 2014: a mere selection for this month When I first started taking photographs for these...
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The garden in June
I know, I know, I’ve been a bit garden-tastic over the past few weeks, what with all my chat about greenhouses and sheds and so on. I am working on some more craft-related posts at the moment too, you...
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Garden moodboard: July
I had a bit of a conundrum with my garden moodboard this month. On Saturday morning, I was standing in the middle of the garden, secateurs in hand, ready to snip snip snip away at lots of nice flowers...
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Styled: an Ikea jug
Last year I took a blogger’s photography course with Emily Quinton (you can read more about it here: Make light photography workshop). Last month, Emily set all her past students a challenge to take an...
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A peek in the garden
I thought it was high time to take you for another little stroll round my garden and a photographic browse of what’s going on outside in August. I’m thinking about my garden pretty much non-stop at the...
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August Break 2014: lots of photos
Well, 31 photos to be precise. These are the first nine… Left to right, top to bottom, the prompts were: orange; pattern; selfie; lunch; today is…; three; reflection; pattern (again!); window Last...
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August break 2014: week two
The photos continue… Prompts, left to right, top to bottom: hands; guilty pleasure; drink; blue; look down; in my bag; look down (again); look down (and again!); handwriting Phew, this has been a tough...
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August break 2014: week three
Prompts, left to right, top to bottom: bookshelf; black and white; treasures; peaceful; shadow (twice) Well, another week over and another weekend reached. Tick, result, breathe… It’s started to feel a...
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August break 2014: the last week
Prompts, top to bottom, left to right: memory, nature, lines, love, small, adornment, morning, something new, nature (again) So, a whole month has passed, just like that. *Clicks fingers* Much as I...
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Photographing trees
Earlier this year I resolved to spend lots of time this summer photographing (and identifying) trees for my Instagram feed. (See A love of trees for more.) Now, if you follow me on instagram you can’t...
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On the mantel: October
October for me is usually a month to stay at home, tucked up warm with my slippers on, or out and about in wellies, tramping through the fallen leaves. Flowers, pumpkins, books and invitations: what...
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Defining your Signature Style: a few photos
When I first moved from print to online journalism about, oooh, 15 years ago now, everyone was abuzz with the “immediacy of the web.” Print is dead, they raved. (Okay, I might have raved a little bit...
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Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy: possibly one of the best things I’ve ever...
One of these days, I’ll become one of those organised and useful bloggers. The kind who share Christmas tutorials in November, so you’ve plenty of time to make the craft before the big day. The kind...
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Cabbage flower, deconstructed
No, not the name of the winning dish in a Masterchef final, but rather my growing obsession with endlessly photographing lovely dead crap. There is a new market stall at the end of our road selling...
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2016: a year with my camera
Just dropping by to tell you about an awesome new project I am doing in 2016: taking part in a (free!) online photography course for the whole of the year, called A Year with my Camera and run by Emma...
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Behind the scenes
I was sorting through some of the gazillion photos on my laptop this morning and I thought it might amuse you to see some of the behind the scenes “help” I get from the older of my two eager assistants...
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Five on Friday
One of my all-time favourite blogs to read is CJ’s Above the River. She’s a brilliant writer, witty and wry, and her glimpses of family conversations never fail to amuse me. I particularly enjoy the...
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