Well, I'm back. Again! The last 6 months I've had so much going on that I just haven't had a chance to get on Buuuut, things finally seem to be settling down again and the last few weeks I've had chance to catch up on doing some of the things I love doing, including a bit of traditional art, which I haven't done for aaaaages! And I've got the rest of the summer to carry on doing all those things I've also had the chance to work on some new photos, so one or two of those might be appearing in the next few weeks

Anyways, I hope you're all well and enjoying the summer!

And now I've got my membership back as well I'm going to leave you with some features of a few of the photos I've been lucky enough to come across since I've been back


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I'm off on holiday tomorrow, and so I probably won't have a chance to come online till the week after next, but when I do return I should hopefully have loads of nice shiny new photos

Until then, hope you're all well...and adios!

I've finally got through all the deviations in my inbox, and there are so many amazing works, I've just got to feature some of them

  
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Okay, I figure it's time I did some more features. I realise I've been a little inactive recently in terms of submitting stuff, but I've been slowly going through the deviations in my inbox, and there really are some amazing works out there, so until my next photographic excursion (next big one will be Menorca in September Can't wait! ) I'm going to focus on a couple of features





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Finally, I just wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone for their support, whether you've commented, faved, or even just had a quick look at my work. I really do appreciate it

Okay, so I'm not actually going anywhere, as such, but the last 3 weeks have been so busy I've hardly had any time to come on-line at all, but...I'm back! And with a fair few photos to process In the last few weeks I've been watching some of the wildlife in the garden (a couple of squirrels, a magpie and some robins mainly) and I'm really enjoying trying to capture something new, which is completely different to landscapes. It's also given me a chance to play with my telephoto lens a bit more I also visited some gardens a couple of days ago, so I have quite a few shots of flowers to upload (again, this is fairly new territory for me, so please bear with me on my early efforts )

Ooh, and slight side note- I've been accepted onto a masters course at Southampton Uni, starting in October! Yay!

Ahem, anyway, I hope you're all having a good week

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to mee-ee, Happy Birthday to me!

Sorry about that, couldn't resist

So as you might have guessed, it's my birthday today! And I'm 22! I have to say, it's taken me a little while to get around to that idea...as compared to where I'm coming from (i.e. 18, 19, 20) it makees me feel really old! And I've only just been able to convince myself, that actually, in the grand scheme of things, it's really not that bad

Anyway, hope everyone is well and having a wonderful day (well why not, it's a perfectly good day! )

Yay, spring is properly here! I know it's a bit late, it's been here for a while now, but it's just been so nice I thought it was worth mentioning

Anyways, last few weeks I've hardly had any time to come on here (just lots of work and other things) but I finally have a whole evening free, so I'm really looking forward to having the time to look through all the deviations in my inbox (as soon as I've finished writing this ) and hopefully replying to all my messages (I feel really bad that it's taken me so long to get to it! )

Also, I'd say it's about time for some more features as well, so here you are!

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Righty-o, got back from Cardiff last night Still adjusting back, although really good day today, revolving mostly around football )

Anyway, Cardiff was amazing. I can't rememeber exactly how many photos I took, but I'm really looking forward to going through them and seeing what I've got Managed to get quite a few night shots (mostly city scapes- our appartment looked out over Cardiff and the river so I was really lucky in that respect), as well as a fair few shots from Cardiff Castle. On top of that I carried my camera about with me practically everywhere I went (which, when you're shopping, can get pretty heavy! )

Anywho (ooh, I also went to the Doctor Who Exhibition! ) Sorry, I digress...ahem, as I was saying, I should hopefully have some of my new shots up next week (along with another smoke shot which I've been working on)

I'm just about to go and have a look through all the new deviations in my inbox, and I hope you all have a great rest of the weekend

Okay so I'm off to Cardiff today (on the way now actually- trying to grab hold of internet connection wherever there's network *sigh*) so I won't be around much for the next four/five days (getting back late Friday evening) so I'll endeavour to reply to all my messages (well, however many I have ) and go through all the deviations in my inbox over the weekend when I get back (armed with a whole load of new photos, I hope! )

So anyway, until then, I hope you all have a great week, and I'll see you when I get back!

Just a few features to leave you with :


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Okay, first I just want to apologise for my lack of activity recently with submissions. Over the last month or so, I haven't had the chance to go out into the landscape, and I was completely shot of any other inspiration (and I didn't really want to submit just for the sake of submitting) so consequently I've had very little to work with!

But, yesterday afternoon I dived into the world of smoke trails, and had a go at capturing smoke (which isn't as easy as you might think! Well, for me anyway ) And having just about got rid of the smell of incense sticks from my room, I have quite a few shots to play with which I'm actually pretty happy with. The only difficulty I have now is (after the original rush of inspiration of actually having been able to capture smoke ) coming up with some original and interesting ways of presenting what I've got... So over the next few days you're probably going to be seeing quite a few smoke shots from me, so please bear with me ..the first few shots might be slightly unoriginal, but as I've said, this is completely new ground for me, so it might take a while to get creative

Anyway, that aside, I'm pretty excited because in a couple of weeks I'm off to Cardiff for a few days, and I can't wait for the chance to shoot some new areas (Bring on the landscape and architecture photography! ) Ahem, as I was saying, last week I bought myself a new tripod (one that doesn't wobble about) and a remote shutter release, so I'm really looking forward to testing those out with some low light/night photography along Cardiff Bay, and hopefully some potential HDR shots (which is still a relatively new area for me ) All of which should keep me pretty busy for a fair while!

Finally, my lack of photoshopping and submissions recently has given me a chance to have a good look at all the other amazing artwork and photography that is there, so I just want to do a copule(ish) of features

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Hey, I hope everyone had a great christmas, or holiday, and all the best for next year

Anyway, I just want to feature some of my favourite works from the last few weeks





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Okay, so, here I am. I've got loads of stuff I want to do, but for now I'm just going to upload some recent landscape stuff, but over the next few weeks I want to put together some photo-manip stuff combining a number of my photos. With the stuff I'm uploading at the moment I would really appreciate any comments or critique so I can approve what I'm doing and learn from it. Thanks guys.