Photography Class ...

Hello there! Many "Thanks" for all your comments on my last post. Some of you asked what happens to the art - it is painted over by another street artist! Sometimes the works are there for quite a long time and others a matter of days only. Artists from all over the world participate - artists frequently travelling thousands of miles to paint on the streets of London. We usually therefore try and go up to Brick Lane three or four times a year and there has always been many different artworks.

On to other things - on Tuesday I attended the last Photography Course lecture. The above photo was taken the week before shortly before I fell flat on my face! I have incorporated photos from the two lessons as a memento. Although I would rather forget the session where I flew in the air and crash landed face first!

We were at a place called The Silent Pool near Guildford. It is called The Silent Pool as the story goes that King John on his horse abducted a woodcutter's daughter who was forced into the deep water and drowned. The Pool has also been linked to  the crime writer Agatha Christie who infamously disappeared in December 1926, it was feared that she had drowned in The Silent Pool after her car was discovered at nearby Newlands Corner.

With me around it didn't stay silent for very long.

This photo was the one I took just before the fall - it's not even a good photo. The water has been blurred through the use of a slow shutter speed.

On Tuesday of last week the class was at the home of one of the class members. The plan was to take photos of plants in her garden and then have some lunch - each member having brought something with them to contribute to the meal.

The bee to the right was very aggressive towards other bees. It would lie dormant and then when another bee landed it would get all vicious. I've never seen bees behaving like that before!

This is a moss rose. I'd never even heard of it before.

The classes have been quoting from "Miranda" - "Such fun" - we all agreed that we should meet up after the Summer Holidays to go and shoot together - photographically speaking! A date has been set for September, I do hope that we stick to it!

This weekend was brilliant - we went up to London to a concert. More on that next time.

Here's hoping that the good weather lasts.

June.

A Visit to Winkworth Arboretum ...

Hello there! Blogger still playing up I'm afraid. I've sent 10 e-mails now to Google. I think that there's a bottomless pit that they have and that's where my e-mails have been thrown into!

Some of you have sent me e-mails or commented on a post saying that you can't seem to connect to me via Bloglovin' - I have to sound completely stupid and ignorant now (not for the first time, I hear the OH shout) but what is Bloglovin'? Is it related to Facebook? I'm not signed up to Facebook nor Twitter, I just don't think they're the thing for me. So, I'll just have to struggle on here :(

On Friday I had arranged to meet up with two fellow students on my Photography Course and we went to Winkworth Arboretum in search of bluebells!

It was only when I got home and looked at this photo on the computer that I noticed the daddylonglegs!

There were literally millions and millions of bluebells. They are stunning to look but really hard to capture on camera so as to do them justice.

I thought that this tree trunk looked like a face - the hollow circle to the left is like an eye. Can you see what I mean?

I will just let the photos do the talking.

We walked down to the boat shed.

We did the Azalea Walk.

A good day out with like minded souls. This weeks Photography Course was class based and all about Photoshop. I know zilch about Photoshop and so I sat there like a bloomin' idiot for most of the lesson. The others on the course had tried Photoshop and were far more knowledgeable than me :( It was all about you can "lasso" this and TIFF that - I was all at sea!

Next week is going to be much of the same! Every one else will have been practising. The tutor told me to download a 30 day Trial of Photoshop Elements. I did try this before but got so confused I couldn't even open the darn thing up! I don't know whether you can download another free Trial - only one way to find out I suppose! You probably get the gist that I don't get along with technology nor does technology get along with me - as demonstrated by the Blogger problem! I can't believe that the Blogger issue has gone on for more than two months but alas, it has :(

Anyhow, I have two more posts to do about what we got up to at the weekend - On Saturday we visited Hinton Ampner and walked around the garden in the pouring rain and on Sunday we went to Farley Mount with the dogs where we went one better and had a picnic in the pouring rain - it was quite refreshing!

Until next time,

June.