Baby Blankets for Heavenly Gowns

Small blankets made for Heavenly Gowns - using wool I've been given, charity shop finds and lefts overs from bigger projects. I think this is the very last of my charity shop wool!

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Granny Squares

 

 

 

 

CCC: Season 3 - PDI 3

The Real Hungry Caterpillar - unedited. Taken in the summer at the butterfly house at NHM (Just love that place). This year there seemed to be many more butterflies and many, many caterpillar (not something I had notice in previous years).  Struggled with the light and sharpness of hand held so have to open the aperture right up. 

First version: cropped square and just altered the shadow and highlights. Acceptable. Not entirely happy with the depth of field on the bottom right hand of the image.

Final Version - reprocessed the first week of January - I have altered my white balance setting in LR - can't believe the difference it makes (shot in auto WB) - much happier with the overall colour - the green is so much better than the grey background.  Having looked again at the unedited version I have decided to go for a letterbox format, and include the baby caterpillar on the top of the leaf. Not sharp on the right hand side of the image because of the DoF but I do think it adds to the image.

He munched through that leaf in seconds - it was fascinating to watch (I came away with about 500 images of this little caterpillar - most, may I add out of focus!)

Judges Comment: Simple image, back-lighting works well, head pin sharp, letterbox format works well, however - too much to green on the left of the picture - and too light. Score: 9

The Mist - unedited. (The whole morning can be found here). One of those lucky mornings when mother nature gives you everything on a plate - and its just your technical knowledge that let you down!  Shot in raw, so adjustments to shadows and highlight  must. Crop and a major clean up from my very dirty sensor.

The Mist. Final. These are the days when you are so glad you got out of bed.... and make every morning when you got out of bed and achieve nothing so very worthwhile. Love this set of images.  You may see another one entered at some point!!

Judges Comment: Nice base to the image - not too much included, Nice sky - perhaps a little too much but because of the detail it's OK, Dark tree works well to contract the bright sun. Composition good. Score: 8.5

Eastbourne & Newhaven

Richmond Park - November 2016

Didn't she do well.....

Camera Club Award Night 2016.

During my first season - I received a certificate for second place in the standard group colour print group. Yay for me!!

During my second season - I received...... Yay for me with a little tap dance.....

Vice Presidents Cup, with certificate - Colour Prints - Intermediate Group - 1st Place
Certificate - Mono Prints - Standard Group - 2nd Place
Certificate - PDI - Standard Group - 2nd Place
Cup, with certificate- Judges Award - Best PDI in Annual Exhibition - joint winner with Marian Guess
Trophy, with certificate - Public Award - Best Panel in Annual Exhibition
Susan Hill Award (Cup), with certificate - Newcomer of the Year, presented to a member of the club who has given their time to help the club and developed their skills as a photographer during their first two seasons.

In the word of Bruce Forsyth..... Didn't she do well......

I can't believe my name appears along side the club greats of Martina, Marian and Trevor. I am truly honoured.

Bring on the rest of this season - although once again, I may have peaked way too early lol. And I really feel with the quality of these three images you can see how I've done so well - snigger snigger - Note for 2017, learn how to take a good still life image.

Gloves for the raffle

Our annual raffle for the camera club is here again. Last year I made two camera bean bags (similar to the one I made myself) - here. This year, fingerless gloves. Hopefully someone will like them enough to pick them up for themselves or as a Christmas gift for someone else.

Very much like the second set .... may have to make another pair!!!

Christmas is coming....

So our annual secret Santa has arrived for our QQ group.  an early decision on what to make was easy - just a matter of what colour scheme depending on the recipient!

An advent calendar with a twist....

Soooooo, with cardboard scissors and a massive pot of glue off we go....

Can you see what it is yet...

Ta Dah......

 

Such fun.......I'm really not sure how robust the whole thing will be, and certainly wouldn't survive a household with little hands but I hope it will last for years to come.  I'm off now to collect all the little red beads that pinged themselves across the sewing room as they fell off!