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

Hipstamatic

Found a new lease of life - Im now using my iPhone to take photos. I'm still not getting out and about to photograph but somehow the pressure to take "good photos" is off and this is a lot of fun. Here's a quick grab from the prom at West Kirby.

Big Camera - Wet Day

Just got an infra red photo from Jonathan Hillhouse that he took of me at Flaybrick Cemetery a couple of weeks ago. He said it would be a good thing to do - IR makes the skin look white, the lips look yellow and you look like a zombie - sounds good - so - - - It was pouring with rain and very cold  - Jonathan was using an ancient plate camera and as he was only taking ONE photograph it was ultra important to get it right. The rain was coming down so hard,  I was soaking wet and Jonathan was taking for ever setting up the camera  and saying "Keep still!" I never laughed so much in ages! Brilliant day and am using the resulting pic as my avatar.

FRPS

Well that was a massive relief and I never want to see those pictures again!
I heard today I have been awarded my Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society and of course I am over the moon!
The project started when I was invited to make re-creations of well known paintings for Digital Photographer and Creative Imaging Magazine - with screen grabs of the whole process.  Some of these images took over a month to complete but I loved every minute of it. I have my models to thank - my own daughter, Rachael,  my friends daughter Sarah, my Nymph, and not forgetting Jessica of the Pre Raph hair, my "Pandora" and Margie, my "Persephone".  Thanks to my friends for their support and making me carry on when I failed it the first time!
Now I can relax - and make pictures.   Back to the greenhouse - - -

Greenhouse ~ Again

 Went out with Photo friends to photograph the autumn leaves and I just happened to get waylaid by the sight of "glass" - -  cant resist!

 So, another place, another greenhouse.  A new treatment for this one.

I do like the 16:9 ratio that I can select with my new camera. Great for landscapes and wide angle subjects. it also has the options of 4:3, 3:2  and 1:1. The greenhouse is taken on the 16:9 setting. This camera  (Panasonic GF1 with 20mm lens) is terrific - great on focus and clarity.

Day of the Fox

Had a dental appointment today and on the way back I stopped the car to take photos of some horses in the field - to try out my new camera. I took a few photos  and was on the way back  because the light was very harsh.  I heard a rustling in the leaves - and a fox came by. As the lens is only 20mm I didn't get  decent shot of him but it felt  like a good omen. More magick.  Picture "Spot the Fox"

Greenhouse Windows

I'm still  working away on my almost a hundred greenhouse pictures. Greenhouses that have been abandoned to the take-over of nature, glass that has still kept its memories of years ago. If someone cleaned it all the magick would go. (btw that is the correct way to spell magic-k with a k if you believe in it.)

Got a new  camera today. It is the new Panasonic lumix DMC GF1 with 20mm f1.7 ASPH lens. Lenses are inter changeable and very light - being of the G Micro System.  The world's smallest and lightest -  well its looking good!  Next comment will be a picture taken with it - today it is pouring down with rain so it is still in its box!