Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Saturday, 8 September 2012

Memories are made of this

Back in July when I was in Amsterdam, we visited a photography museum/gallery called Foam [link].

The exhibition I found most interesting there was a massive collection of peoples' old photo albums. It lamented the digital photo galleries of today on Facebook and Instagram and Flickr, and wished for the nostalgic days of when we used to go to the chemist and get our camera film developed, then carefully arrange them into albums of memories.

You can still do this today, either with your old skool camera film, or by getting your digital photos printed (websites like Snapfish and Jessops have special offers where you can get free prints sometimes).

Looking back through photo albums always puts a smile on my face. It's easy to make an album and invokes memories of times past, making you think how much you've developed, how things have changed and how things have stayed the same.


It's a great activity for a lazy weekend afternoon when there's not much on the telly and the weather is a bit naff.

It's treasured memories of years spent together.

It's remembering funny times spent with good friends.

It's that 21st birthday where everyone got all dolled up and then it rained on the way to the club. 
It's the canal holiday with the strange little icing figures on the giant, delicious carrot cake.


It's an adventure through the woods and it's a fabulous work Christmas do.




Thursday, 21 June 2012

#100happy today - When the Olympic torch came to Town



My boss agreed to let us all leave early to watch the Olympic torch go past, hurrah! 
(He is a good boss, he makes everyone at work a cup of tea every morning without fail. Good lad.)


It was quite busy!


There was such a lovely atmosphere


The lady in the bottom right corner was brilliant, she was dancing and waving her flag...


Wooooooo!

Hyperactive Green Superheroes

We waited a long while for the torch and I managed to get a quick snap of it running past!

Shame I didn't bring my "proper" camera but glad I got these taken on my phone :)

Find out where the torch is off to next HERE




Saturday, 3 March 2012

#100happy today - The First Day of Spring

Today I went for a drive through the countryside and it was 11 degrees at 4pm and the sun was getting in my eyes. This is a good thing - it means spring is finally here, hurrah!

I saw lambs and crocuses (crociii?!) and blue sky and tiny little buds on the trees.

Spring is the time of new beginnings and for me, new year's resolutions. To me, it's pointless making a resolution to be better in January, the bleak midwinter, because it's too cold and dark and I start biting my nails again by the 3rd.

The REAL new year starts on the first day of spring. A fresh start.

Here's the best of the spring photographs on deviantART:


^ "Spring" by ~aimeelikestotakepics


^ "Spring" by *007TINAR

^ "Spring" by ~loLO-o


^ "First Lamb" by =FriendFrog


^ "Duckling" by ~SzandorDuBois










and some tree buds by me :o)