Photography

If you are a photographer of any kind, you probably understand the annoyance of carrying your camera on a strap around your neck.  At least if you are like me and you still have the nylon strap that came with your camera, those things are so scratchy.   I can imagine that after a certain amount of time it must get …

A few years ago I wrote about another blogger who was photographing strangers in public to ridicule them, which was something I disagreed with very strongly.   It brought up a lot of questions in regards to taking photos of people in public.   My personal opinion was that it was ok, that people in public are fair game, as long as …

Saturday we went to Roosendaal for Noah’s first Birthday.   It’s hard to believe he’s a year old already.  I am shocked by it, so I can only imagine how much Penny and Yuri must be wishing they could stop time.  Every time I see him he’s changed so much and is doing so many new things.  I almost fell over …

Sunday morning I woke up and my back was still killing me, but I couldn’t stand the thought of not making it to Keukenhof.  The last time I was there was about 8 years ago and I was due for another visit.  I packed my camera bag with painkillers and tried to take the Suck it up, Buttercup approach. It …

If you have two dogs, and you use those extension leads with the big plastic handles… don’t do like I did today and think you can hold both of them and your camera at the same time.  Whatever is out there can wait.  Otherwise, you will just end up deciding it’s a good idea to put one lead between your …

April doet wat hij wil is a saying about the spring weather in the Netherlands.  It means “April does what it wants”, and boy does it!   A lot of people get irritated by not knowing what the weather will be like from one moment to the next, but I like it.   We go from days of 20-25 degree sunny weather, …

This weekend I went on my first outing with my new photo club.  I was a bit nervous as I didn’t know anyone other than my friend Heather, but I liked the fact that it was a smaller gathering.  I’m more comfortable in those kinds of situations and thought it would give me a good chance to meet some of …

Well, Pixel is almost a year old now and has been with us for 9 months.  It’s been a bit of a roller coaster of pee and poo but we’ve finally gotten it all under control *knocks wood*.   She is so cute it’s hard to stay angry with her when she does things like, oh I don’t know… pee on …

I’ve always been really interested in photography but never knew anything about it.  I’ve tried looking some info up online but there is something about my brain that causes it to switch off when I get too much information at once.  I needed personal instruction and I never knew anyone here in NL who could give me that, or at …

shoppers and crystal tree by wvs Every day I visit the website daily dose of imagery because I have serious photo envy, and because I like to torture myself by looking at photos of Toronto and getting homesick. Yesterday he posted this photo of one of the big shopping centers in downtown Toronto at x-mas.   When I first saw it …

Even though I’m feeling like crap at the moment I am giving all my well wishing vibes to Pixel.   Somehow she managed to scratch her eye, which has caused some swelling and irritation. The vet said that she has a scratch on her cornea and gave us cream to put in her eye 4 times a day.   We felt terrible, …