After the Easter rain
Well what a cold and wet Easter it’s been! As I type it’s still pouring with rain outside, the sky is grey and Ben Hur is trending on Twitter as everyone settles down for a bank holiday epic with a cast of thousands!. Traditionally I always like to get out into the garden and get…
Rizzle razzles!
Way before Rizzle Kicks came on the scene one of my daughter’s nick names has been Rizzle. As luck would have it she is a great fan of the boys and she even got to see them at the Guides Big Gig last year! Yesterday she had one of her dancing moments in the…
Spring pixels
After a session of mega posting to launch the Pixel Chef I have been very remiss and not posted anything for nearly two weeks. That’s not to say that I’ve not taken any photos – I have a couple of luscious recipe features planned and have been very busy with my work for 2up photography.…
Welcoming spring with Yoga Mala
Yesterday a small group of select yogis joined to welcome the spring and raise money for the Prostate Cancer Charity by performing a Yoga Mala of 108 sun salutations. It was a lovely uplifting evening with the hall full of candles and spring flowers. It was a particularly special event for our yoga teacher Sue…
Official launch for The Pixel Chef!
Today’s the day when I finally unveil The Pixel Chef – the personal Blog I’ve been planning for several months. As you’ll see there’s already a fair amount of content on the Blog – I didn’t want to go public with just one post! I’ve been blogging for several years now as part of my…
Walking: 19 March
What a glorious morning! A cold start but there is Spring warmth in the sun.
Walking: 15 March
Very foggy this morning. Or a pea souper you might call it. These photos cried out to be in black and white….
Winter exhibition
Just before Christmas I exhibited a few of my photographs at The Dragonfly Gallery – a small but lovely little exhibiton space in Watton. As it was a very local exhibition I chose to display photographs taken within walking distance of our house – including some from our garden. The resulting set of images you…
Vignette app not Instagram!
As I don’t have an iphone (or an i anything for that matter!) I don’t have access to Instagram as it’s not yet available for Andriod. However I have been experimenting with other similar photo manipulation apps – my favourite of which is Vignette. I have had the demo for sometime now and have finally…
Walking pixels explained
Back in September last year my daughter started High School and for the first time in 12 years I did not have to do the walk to school in the morning. Even though it was only a quick 5 minute stroll round the corner and back I really missed the fresh air and a chance…
Walking: 14 March
It was so grey and dull this morning so I added a yellow filter and a saturation boost to try and cheer things up. The VW Camper van and Fish and chips lorry were an added bonus!
Fun with frames, patterns and textures
One of the things I plan to do with the Pixel Chef is to share images that I have developed in Photoshop using a a wide range of techniques such as actions, textures and frames. There is a huge range of resources on the Internet from photographers and developers – many of who offer things…
A trip to the seaside down memory lane
We’ve recently been making the effort to frame and display a few of the many hundreds (no thousands!) of family photographs that we have languishing on our server. With so many to chose from I decided to go back to the summer of 2004 when we bought our first digital SLR. I eventually picked these…
In the bike shed!
My husband Geoff is a very keen cyclist and has a shed full of bikes and bike paraphernalia. One of my favourite things to do is to take the camera into a space like the bike shed and shoot wide open with a prime lens to capture foreground detail and some lovely blurry background shapes. …
A trip to the dark side!
I don’t get to go shopping in Norwich as much as I’d like to and usually when I usually do it involves trailing round with one or both of the kids! As a treat I normally put in my trusty old Canon 300d which has become my handbag camera but on this trip I decided…