Testing! So long since I added a post. Yes, already botched it by deleting but it still came so putting it back again. 

Horses again. I know now why it is horses with me all the time.  American daddy's cousins were rodeo riders . He told me they were all cowboys when they were kids.
Messing about as usual - I want to create a mood rather than a straight photo of these horses. It's made from two photos.

Manchester Cathedral

Went to see the PAGB Photo exhibition at Manchester Cathedral before it ended 2 weeks ago - it was excellent and was good to see some great pictures. I love the cathedral. When I was an art student in Manchester I used to go and sit and listen to choral evensong every evening on the way home. The music always finished a day off well. 

Took this pic on Thursday with my iPhone and later found that Corel have launched a new iPhone App  - Paint-It. This is the result. 

Flower Paintings

Bought a little Chinese paper sketch book and have been painting away in the garden when the sun was out.  One of our dahlias has been amazing with flowers that are 10 inches in diameter so that was one of my subjects. it is still hard to get going and I hope the course I start in a couple of weeks will give me the discipline to do more painting - and on big paper.

Chinese Watercolour Painting

I'm going to do a course in September on Chinese watercolour painting. it is something I never did before and decided it would get me motivated to do real art again. Chinese watercolour painting is very disciplined and is meditative in nature. The brush must only make a mark that is deliberate and the calligraphy is something that all Chinese people have to study from an early age.

I have had some days over the summer painting and this is one of my avocets.

Mood Swings

 Several weeks ago I started making a drawing every morning on my iPhone because it cheers me up. I start very blue and end up being colourful and happy.
http://gallery.me.com/caroltipping#100199&bgcolor=dkgrey

In to the Garden

 Finding it hard to Blog at the moment as don't seem to have anything exciting to tell.  Physio is the  highlight of the week!
Had a morning in the garden photoing the daffodils. Folders of pictures that aren't any use  -but its a start to be using a camera again.  Had to read the camera manual its so long since I used it!

When he came to Hoylake to do a workshop Paul Gallagher said you can be anywhere and just take photos without even moving from one spot. It's good discipline apparently. I go with that theory but I'd still rather be up there with those wild ponies in Conway - - only a predicted 11 months and will be there!

Phone Pictures on Mac Gallery

Havent been able to photograph out there for a while now and have actually run out of viable photographs to work on so the new direction of using the iPhone  camera just around and about where ever I go has become quite exciting.

I'm very privileged as well to be a member of dot mac or should I say mobileme and it is so easy to send the phone pics up there to the web gallery and now I could share them - yes, I will send the link here!

The pictures show the mundane everyday things  - just my life at the moment in time. Pic of poor little birds in a cage at the garden centre - -

http://gallery.me.com/caroltipping#100164