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March 6, 2020March 5, 2020

Share Six Blog Circle – March 2020 | Morning

I am not, nor will I ever be, a morning person. The struggle I had to find {morning} images for our new Share Six theme is testament to that alone! Although the majority of these images are from last year, I hadn’t processed them until today, but I knew each one of them was sitting there waiting for an opportunity to see the light of day, rising like the sun each morning! I hope you enjoy them.

This is what “I’m ready to go for my morning walk so I’m going to sit here in the rain and wait patiently for you get your shoes so you go get your shoes now please” looks like:

We’ve almost been in our house for a year so we’re finally coming full circle but I’m still learning how the light works through each season. It turns out light only comes through this window in the deepest darkest depths of December. On the one sunny day we had this past December, I saw it…just for a fleeting moment:

Early morning on a rainy day:

When the patient dog finally gets taken on her morning walk, I’ll often take my camera and sometimes the light will inspire me to try some creative. This image is from one of those times. Sunlight poking through the trees, autumnal colours of the bracken, it was asking for a play on tone:

This next image (or rather 30 images layered together) is another one from last year. I’m grateful to my lovely Share Six colleagues for giving me the reason and the motivation to get my images off the hard drive and to breathe life into them:

Last summer we took Nerys camping by the sea. She enjoyed relaxing in the sea mist that rolled in each morning. Here she is ready to put the kettle on:

When I think of mornings I instantly think of my two favorite morning people. Every single morning they get themselves up, they get themselves breakfast and they start their day together. It’s a time I haven’t ever really documented at home (shame on me), but I did one morning in France last year.

Thanks for joining us again this month. Don’t forget, post your {morning} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_morning. A new theme will be posted on 6th April.

Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Liz of It’s Still Life Photography. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!

Until next time,

Ceri xx

February 6, 2020March 4, 2020

Share Six Blog Circle – February 2020 | Out of Focus

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This month the Share Six theme is {Out of Focus} – quite possibly my favourite of all the things! There was certainly no need for me to take images specifically for this blog; I have a ton images to choose from from this past month alone! I eventually settled on some intentional camera movement images that I took from the car. We were on the way back from watching a rugby match one Saturday in January and the sun was just setting. The light recently has been so grey that the glimpse of sun was more than enough encouragement for me to get my camera out.

Thanks for joining us again this month. Post your {out of focus} images, deliberately out of focus or accidentally out of focus, on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_oof. A new theme will be posted on 6th March.

Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Jan Douglas. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!

Until next time,

Ceri xx

January 6, 2020January 6, 2020

Share Six Blog Circle – January 2020 | Macro

It’s 2020! Thanks for joining me as we kick off another journey around the sun.

This month Share Six is focusing on all things {macro}!

It’s no great secret that I’ve been struggling creatively these past few months (ummmm, all of 2019…), but I’m hopeful that my most favourite Christmas gift, as well as forcing myself into a new 366 project, is going to turn the tide and refocus my energy.

That Christmas gift was a set of Lensbaby Omni Filters. If you haven’t come across these before, they are a set of prisms/wands that, with the use of magnetic arms, enable you to play with light and reflections right in front of your lens. As with any Lensbaby (or indeed any new equipment…yes, I’m talking to you, new Wacom tablet, that I’m attempting to use for the first time today too, humph), there is a learning curve. With these filters learning comes with experimentation, both in terms of using the different wand attachments, but also using different lighting. It turns out different lighting scenarios change what you thought you already knew about them!

These images were taken on Boxing Day (that’s December 26th to those who don’t know). Which means, yes, it took over 24 hours for me to get the chance to play. What madness?! These were my very first attempts with the Omni filters, so ixnay on the judgement, ok, thanks 🙂

I’m adding in an extra one here, whilst not strictly macro, it shows how the omni prism creates beautiful reflections:

Thanks for joining us again this month. If you have any questions about how I created specific effects or Lensbaby Omni in general, fire away! Add you comments or questions below. And don’t forget, post your {macro} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_macro. A new theme will be posted on 6th February.

Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Lynne Grant. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!

Until next time,

Ceri xx

December 6, 2019December 8, 2019

Share Six Blog Circle – December 2019 | Light

The December Share Six theme is {light}.

“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”
― Roy T. Bennett

The interpretation opportunities with this theme are truly endless so, my wonderful photographer friends, you have no excuse not to share your images with us this month. If you have never shared an image before, this is your chance. Post your {Light} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_light. A new theme will be posted on 6th January 2020.

Here are a few of my recent captures that were inspired by the light more so than the situation or moment. The first is an early morning dog walk on the frosty heath.

Just an ordinary moment with a favourite book and a hot chocolate, but the light hitting his face compelled me to pick up my camera:

She often looks at me like this. She is wondering why I’m lying on the floor but not next to her; she knows it isn’t possible to cuddle from a distance. This is “puzzled in a perfect spot of light”:

“I am the light”:

Our house with Christmas lights at sunset. It doesn’t look nearly so pretty without the movement, but I do love the Christmas lights:

Sparklers:

Thanks for joining us again this month. Up next is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Lynne Grant. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!

Until next time,

Ceri xx

November 6, 2019November 5, 2019

Share Six Blog Circle – November 2019 | Portraits

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The Share Six theme this month is {Portraits}.

I’ve talked a lot this year about how I am uninspired and how I have not been driven to pick up my camera since our international relocation. As I sit down to write this, it is exactly one year to the day since we left the US, and my goodness, my sentimentality is through the roof! Reflecting on the images I have taken in preparation for this blog in this past week alone, I see that I do have a reason and a purpose to pick up my camera.

My boys have changed so much in the last year and I wonder now if, when I look back through my 2019 images, I will have visibly missed a chunk of their growing up. I grateful for this theme and the push to capture them more. I vow to continue to do more again.

Inspired by my self-portraits from a few months ago (see those here), I bribed the boys with Halloween sweets. I would say it was worth it.

I snapped this last one as we were heading out the door on Bonfire Night. He does make me laugh!

Remember, remember the fifth of november, for gunpowder, treason and plot

Thank you for joining me for another month at Share Six. I hope you will take this theme, run with it and share your favourites with us. Post your {Portrait} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_portraits. A new theme will be posted on 6th December.

Up next is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Lynne Grant. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!

Until next time,

Ceri xx