January 17 Bag
My mother always mentions my handbag is heavy. What do I have in it? An umbrella, digital camera, purse, pens, glasses, iPad, handfan and name badge for work.
Category: other things
January 15 Sleep
My total bedroom is messy but the pillow and doona are comfortable even though they don’t quite match.
New theme
I want to change the theme of my blog to show just the images on the front home page rather than the image and post. But having checked out the themes available I notice they all need a featured image. That’s OK, can do that easily. But they also only have images in landscape version. All my #fmspad photos taken in Instagram are portrait.
So from tomorrow on, they will be taken as landscape using the camera normally on my iPad then sharing to Instagram and uploading here via the Edublogs app. This will create me a new post as well as add in the image.
January 11 Inside my fridge
Inside my fridge
As I tend to do a lot of eating from the local shop or frozen foods from the freezer, there is not much in my fridge. But the water jug is important as is the fruit to eat for snacks.
January 5 Favourite thing
Favourite thing
Easy peasy – my computer! When I go travelling it is my iPad which I have on the seat beside me with all those fantastic travelling apps ready at my fingertips. When I am at home, it is my desktop PC with my Farmville 2 and Criminal Case games as well as my blogs. Couldn’t use my iPad with Instagram app on it to take photo of iPad so ……..
January 1 Favourite colour
Favourite colour
I have lots of these but mainly blue, probably because I spent so much time in the Girl Guides who had blue uniforms. But I also love blue sea and clear blue skies. Sorry this image is out of focus – also learning how to use instagram on my iPad to take photos.
Here is the January challenge
I have decided to try the daily challenge by #FatMumSlim She has allowed me to put the image of the January challenge here on the blog.
Doing a challenge like this means you can sometimes plan ahead to find something to photograph. If you decide to join me in this challenge, remember you can add your images to Facebook or Instagram and use the hashtags mentioned.
My New Year resolution
I have just finished a unit at UTAS – University of Tasmania- called Photo Essay. This made me look at the composition and design of any photos I take from now on. I don’t know yet what my result is for the photo essay I put together but here it is.
I tried to use the skills they taught us about:
- rule of thirds
- pop of colour
- perspective
- lines
- patterns
So my 2017 resolution is going to be:
Add an image at least once every week on this blog and preferably more often.
Here are some other photography challenge sites that have been discussed in our unit Facebook group.
- Photo a day challenge – using instagram or facebook
- Photo challenge – gives great tutorials on how to take the photo and use photoshop with it for layering etc.
- 52 week challenge – The challenges are based on storytelling, technical or artistic impression.
Readers: Who is going to try one of these challenges?
14/31 Here comes the rain
Forecast for high temperatures, gale force winds and a cold front to come through today. Think it has arrived.
14/28 Scrimshaw
Being retired, I can now attend some lunchtime talks. Today was about scrimshaw and I took along a pair of whale teeth my father had been given by his foster father who was a friend of his mother. We don’t know the history of the teeth but they might have been handed down from my great great grandfather who was a whaler in the 1870’s and 1880’s.
14/23 Cycling
About five years ago, I bought a treadmill to use for exercise. It was in June when Tour de France was on TV, but now I also use it when Tour Downunder is on during our summer holidays. I only walk at 4km per hour nothing like the cyclists.
14/11 Try something new
Sent out a tweet last night about ipad apps for close up photography. Penny, Jenny and Fiona came back with some options. I also did a search for others. So today I tried one called ItZooms. It also allows you to invert colours. I was sitting on the couch in my lounge room, looking through the fly wire door to the car tyre about 4 metres away. This is the result.