Showing posts with label January. Show all posts
Showing posts with label January. Show all posts

Friday, 3 January 2014

As one challenge ends...

Another begins!  Lucky Snapping in 2013 has finished but KathiJo, one of the contributors to Lucky Snapping is carrying on with photo prompts and I am going to try to do at least one each week.  Now it's Friday already and I haven't managed a single one - not a good omen!

As it's a funny sort of week we are starting on Wednesday.


Your word for this week will be : Resolutions 
with added daily prompts : 

    • Wednesday : Food
    • Thursday : Drink
    • Friday : Clothes
    • Saturday : Travel
    • Sunday : Family 


I don't do resolutions so here are my first three daily prompts:



Hope everyone is staying safe in the storms, it's wild, wet and windy here.

Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Lucky Snapping in 2013 - January View

Well, here I am starting another photo blogging challenge this time there will be a variety of photographs and only occasional scrapping.  There will be different challenges organised by a variety of different creative people at Lucky Snapping in 2013  The first is described, by Jen, below:

                                 The View challenge


So this challenge is to decide on a view that you love and take a photo of it at some point this week, when the light is good and/or you have time. Over the year we will then have one photo a month of that view which will show the changes in the seasons. 
 

It was pouring with rain this morning when I got up, so I thought that as this is probably our most prevalent weather feature, I would see if I could take a view from one of the windows in our house as this might prove more sustainable!  The window I chose faces West and has two alternative views:

This one, which features our 'swamp' area full of willow trees, it floods regularly. The water has just gone down, but no doubt it will be filling up again soon.

And this one which features the farm sheds, the patio and there should be fields and hills in the backgound but today they are obscured by a thick mist!

In the end I decided to use the second view because there will be changes on the patio when the beech hedge turns green and the bulbs come out in spring.  Then in summer, the patio table and chairs will be put in place and the tubs will be filled  with bedding plants.  The fields and hills behind will change too as they go through the farming seasons and you might even catcg a glimpse of the calves.

There is a scrapping part to this challenge, so I may be back with a layout for the view later.

Thursday, 5 January 2012

365+1 - Excitement

Photo Mask by Coppercurls Designs, Kit: Gingerscraps, Scrap Your Life
I noticed on the weather forecast that it was going to be a sunny day today, so decided to take my camera to work and went out for a walk round the beautiful grounds of the Crichton Estate.  The plan was to find some 'excitement' for the 365+1 prompt.  I thought their might be more bulbs pushing through but found this one clump of snowdrops with only one with the flower starting to show.

I thought I'd share another couple of photographs I took.  This is the Crichton Church, the sky is blue but there was a freezing cold wind blowing.

On the way back, the sun was shining low, right through the church window.  I really enjoyed getting out in the sun for a dose of vitamin D and some roses in my cheeks!

Sunday, 9 January 2011

January makes me shiver...

 
Photographs of today's snow and ice.

Template by Digitreats, blue paper by Handmade Christmas from Ellie Lash, white paper and pine branch from FeeriedeNoel Collab from Digital Crea.  Fonts - Stone Serif & Scrap Calligraphy.

In case you are interested, there are a couple of great giveaways going on in the blogosphere, one here at Purple Lotus Art and another one at Maggie's Nest. Both involve copies of publications by Somerset Studios, really great inspiration.