Love in Black and White
Today I’d like to share a bit of appreciation for this lovely human. This is David, my husband. We’ve been together for almost fourteen years and married for almost thirteen. Our wedding was on a...
View ArticleFake Blood and Water Droplet Macro With Tutorial
Conflict of Viscosity, October 2015 Ever since reading that the phrase Blood is thicker than water may not refer to family ties being stronger than other relationships, but rather that the blood of...
View ArticleAct 5 Scene 1
Act 5 Scene 1, October 2015 What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Because Lady Macbeth is my...
View ArticleMy Cardiac Arrest
My Cardiac Arrest, October 2015 See I know the taste of the spike in your brains As you crawl to me, a little closer to me… But still you can lean on me if you want to Why don’t you lean on me for a...
View ArticleIn a Maximum of 15 Minutes
I was killing time yesterday waiting for a taxi home from an appointment (the title of this post is part of the text message I received from the taxi company) and took some photos of bits of my...
View Article2016 Photography Calendar and Lovely Fan Art
Today I’m super excited for two reasons. The first is that my 2016 photography calendar is now on sale through DeviantArt! It features a year’s worth of vibrant and colourful conceptual, macro,...
View ArticleAnniversary Wreath Macro
I am absolutely itching to decorate our apartment for Yule but I’m forcing myself to resist the urges until 1st December. To help me handle the waiting, I shot some photos with my Polaroid macro lens...
View ArticleBrass and Labradorite
Last Friday I went to see Circa: Beyond at Edinburgh’s Christmas. That’s totally not what this post is about but it was amazing so I had to mention it. After the show, I was attracted to the shiny...
View ArticleI Did Something Kind Of Stupid
Back at the start of October this year, I moved my blog from WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress.org but I didn’t realise that I could migrate my subscribers! I only found this out last week...
View ArticleWindswept and Golden
This winter has been unseasonably warm (so far) but it’s still beautiful, even without the snow I’ve been hoping for. My husband and I are staying with my parents for the holidays and yesterday we...
View ArticleGoodness Gracious Great Snails of Fire
We have a family of small orange ramshorn snails that live in one of our aquariums, hanging out with the goldfish and keeping things nice and clean. Today all the snails decided to congregate on the...
View ArticleGalileo Thermometer Through a Migraine
This lovely thing is a Galileo (or Galilean) thermometer, or at least a close-up of a little bit of it. If you’ve never encountered one before, Wikipedia will explain what they are. I took this photo...
View ArticleWinter Moments With The Broken Holga
The ‘bad’ news is the Holga lens that fits my Sony Alpha a550 dSLR is broken and the focusing ring, such as it was to start with, doesn’t move at all now. The good news is this doesn’t matter because...
View ArticleAltar: Public Ritual and Art Show
Last month, I spent an evening (or rather an early-hours-of-the-morning) posing for photographs with translucent material stapled to my right arm, from wrist to elbow. Anyone who knows me will be aware...
View ArticleResting on the Bones of Winter
I love it when quirks of natural light play with the perception. This isn’t a black and white photo. It hasn’t been desaturated. It’s a full colour picture taken on a day with a sky so grey it seemed...
View ArticleMobile and Delicious
I absolutely adore looking for tasty new meal ideas online, especially in places like Instagram and Twitter. I also enjoy sharing my foodie creations with the amazing community of vegans who post...
View ArticleKitty Chill
Sometimes you just need a picture of a sleeping kitty. This is Pablo, photographed with my Samsung Galaxy Note 4, processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015. FOLLOW ME ON BLOGLOVIN’ | VISIT...
View ArticleGavin and Gosia’s Wedding
I don’t think I really get to say “I don’t photograph weddings” any more. Maybe “I very occasionally photograph weddings for certain clients, specifically very laid back ones who don’t want...
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