Photo Catch-up 2

To save cluttering up my blog with daily picture posts, I think I'll stick with my usual trick of posting a bunch of my photos at the same time, that was it's easy to skip past for people who aren't interested in my crappy photography skills *laughs*

So, I got as far as books, skipped high angle, which takes us to:

June 8: Sunset. It's been so rainy and cloudy lately that I was pleasantly surprised to actually have a sunset of which to take a picture on the appropriate day! I took a whole bunch of shots, and for some reason my favourite was this one from the car. If I was being arty about it, I'd say that I find the juxtaposition between the calm serenity of the sunset and the sense of movement to be unexpected and interesting ;)

June 9: Fresh Fruit. Yeah. So, this is about as close as I get to fresh fruit on a regular basis ;) I do like grapes though, I just didn't have any at the time. But look, 25% fruit juice... that counts right?!

June 10: Animal. I nearly took a picture of my muppet t-shirt with Animal playing the drums, but it was in the wash *sigh* As boyfriend and I don't have any pets, I staged this with a Pilchard cuddly toy I won out of the grabber machines at Lyme Regis; see it's like a real cat photo, only with a bright blue cat *grins*

June 11: Silhouette

June 12: Sun flare - yeah right, no sun to flare!

June 13: Reminds you of childhood. These are Snuggle Bunny. On the left you have Snuggle Bunny #1, a gift from my nanny on the day I was born *fond smile* Many years later my mum found an identical one, Snuggle Bunny #2 on the right there, and of course she had to buy it! One or other of the two has been on my bed from birth until only a few years ago, when they were retired to an airtight box due to the fear of disintegration caused by over-love.

I haven't done any more so far - the greyness of the outside world is sapping my inclination. I'll probably post more next time I have a batch. I quite like having to remind myself to take more pictures, so I'm definitely enjoying the challenge.

Photo Catch-up

As I don't post at the weekend, and I had my ABC meme yesterday, I thought I'd put up a bumper lot of 30 day photos today. Not sure if it really fits with the rules, but pictures were taken on the appropriate day, so I think I'm ok ;)

June 4th. Clouds, lack of. What can I say, the day I took this, there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. If I took it today, the entire sky would be one giant, matt grey cloud. Neither would be visually exciting, but at least the blue is summery *laughs*

June 5th. Breakfast. I'm not really a breakfast sort of person... So I skipped this one.

June 6th. Books. Ages ago I saw something on a design blog that I thought was awesome - reversing all of your books so that the colours coordinate and look neater. So I did it to my main bookshelf. Ok, it makes it a little harder to find the book you want, but I do love the effect.

Against Defeat*

*"The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands" - Sun Tzu

Two Things

How imaginative a post title *laughs* Funnily enough, I have 2 things to post about today...

First: I mentioned in this post that I had received a skein of yarn from my Blog Hub swap. Well, the lovely lady I sent my parcel to received hers earlier this week, and posted about it here. Part of the plan was for everyone to post why they sent what they did, so here's why... (oh, and check out Ohdessa's picture of the parcel, it's much better than mine!)

The point of the swap was to post someone one ball from your stash, and that they could make something with... I sent this:

I used it for my shawl, and the stitch definition was lovely, the yarn is beautifully soft (in spite of being acrylic) and the colour is really saturated. Plus, I think it has enough length to make something out of!

I also threw in a partial ball of something else. I did think twice before including it (I didn't want anyone to think I was just sending scraps) but from reading her blog, Ohdessa really seems to like bright colours, so it seemed to fit.

Yep, it's the yarn from my happy socks!

Second: I came across this project yesterday... A month long photo blogging challenge

I keep intending to get better at taking photos (and fix my damn camera too!) so I thought I'd try and give this a go. As I don't tend to post at the weekends, I might take my photos then but blog them as a group the following week. Hope that fits in with the rules (which include the proviso that you have to take the picture on the day, or the day before... May need to be quite imaginative with some of my subjects in that case!)

As I missed yesterday, here are my first 2 shots:

1. Self Portrait (I am feeling very dopey, fuzzy and headachey today, so this is very representative of my "self" right now!)

2. My favourite shoes (I have too many shoes, and my favourites change weekly, but these are most likely my actual faves!)