Excellent News!!!

I have been shortlisted for the Professional Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year Competition!!!! The results came out today and although I didn't win (unfortunately) just to be shortlisted is a huge honor and I am so excited I want to scream it from the rooftops!!!! I entered the Still Life/Food Category with this image:

Yay Yay Yay Yay!!!!

I new I was shortlisted a while ago but I didn't know if I could say anything so I have ben ready to burst for about 3 weeks!!

Happy Christmas

Its my last morning at work so in about 3 hours Christmas will officially start for me. Happy Christmas everyone and I wanted to share some of my favourite photos I have taken this year. The top one is particularly special but I can't say why just yet, just keep your fingers crossed for it!

this was when John took me to Norfolk for my birthday, we camped in October! Our tent was stuffed so full of duvets and blankets that it wasn't cold though.

my mum in her garden, I had been taking her portrait in the morning (she was a very good model!) and was just having a cup of tea when I snapped this one. It was one of my favourites from the day.

old photos

I was printing some photos for Johns mum for Christmas and found these 2 from when we walked to Cambridge, I love photos of the backs of peoples heads

fell over

owwww, its so icy, fell on my arse walking to work this morning. i've not got much to do today work wise so i took a photo of my injury to get sympathy.

114 miles week 19

This is our Cheesy Christmas themed 114 miles! Hope you like it, I am on the left and Ian is on the right.

for more see www.114miles.blogspot.com

114 miles week 18

This week I am on the left and Ian Land is on the right

follow the project here:

www.114miles.blogspot.com

Thankyou Kayte

A big thanks to Kayte from This Is Love Forever blog for posting a lovely blog post about me. If you havn't heard of her you should go see her blog. She writes amazing books

Christmas Market, Chinese and a Hoodie

this (the one above) is my absolute favourite photo!

Film grain is good! lovely 3200 iso Kodak Tmax film, drunken opening the camera back is not! (see above!)

light

The light at the moment is just so beautiful. So beautiful that I had to take a photo right now! The only interesting thing I could see though was where I dumped my apple on the printer this morning!

114 Miles Week 17

A collaboration with Ian Land. We email one photo a week to each other, pair them up as a diptych, and display them on this blog:

www.114miles.blogspot.com

Some work better than others. This one, I think, is particularly good. My photo is on the left and it is of John's Dad. Ian's is on the right and I would guess that it is his shadow but you would have to ask him about that!

National Portrait Gallery Wonderness

I went to the National Portrait Gallery mainly to see the Photographic Portrait Prize 09 and was really blown away by the amount of amazing photos that were included in the competition. I have been for the last couple of years and there are always always great photos but there are usually a lot that I just don't get why they were picked. This year, I loved pretty much every one. My favourite one was called William by Kelvin Murray. I will definately enter next year and I don't know why I didn't this year! I probably would of entered this:

or this:

next year I will enter!

114 Miles Week 16

Ian is on the left and I am on the right.

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Weekend breakfasts

I know it is Tuesday but I had some delicious breakfasts at the weekend which helped me to practice my food photography.

It was so tasty even the washing up looked good! Unfortunately I also attempted to make a lemon drizzle cake for my parents, which failed completely and did not taste good, at least the messy remains looked good though!

ps. that magazine in the corner of the top photo is the best photography magazine ever ever printed, it is called GUP and you should read it.

not 114 miles....

......but still a diptych!

and also a portrait of my lovely Dad