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May 31, 2021May 29, 2021

30 Minutes in the Life – May 2021 | Finding Time

It’s been two months since I started a new chapter. After 11 years of being a stay-at-home mum, I went back to work and I’m absolutely loving it!

While my enthusiasm for work continues to grow and my personal time become increasingly precious, I realise that my time for photography has been even more important than ever. Even if I find just five minutes at the end of the day to take a photo for my 365, I need to take those five minutes for myself. When I do that, the rest of my time – time for my family – is all the better. So it may not be 30 minutes in the life, but it is vital nonetheless.

So here’s five minutes in my garden, stolen from that gap between the end of the working day and cooking the dinner.

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed seeing a little piece of our world. Up next in the blog circle is the incredible Jenn of Blueberry Hill Images. Please click here to visit Jenn’s blog.

Until next time, stay safe,

~Ceri

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021

Share Six Blog Circle – May 2021 | Light Inspired

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The theme for May’s Share Six Blog Circle is {Light Inspired}. As photographers, we are always searching for inspiration, ways to create something new or beat our way out of a rut. Ultimately that inspiration often from the light that surrounds our subject.

The past few weeks I’ve been (massively) inspired by a new lens – the Lensbaby Velvet 85 – and a new set of Lensbaby Omni Filters – the colour expansion pack. The colour crystal omni wands create and manipulate light in a creative, extraordinary and incredibly inspiring way, so for me these images are the epitome of {Light Inspired}.

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

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

Until next time, stay safe,

Ceri xx

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Share Six Blog Circle – April 2021 | Growth

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This month’s Share Six theme is {growth}, and I couldn’t think of a more perfect theme for the beginning of Spring. All around us new life is springing into action. Bulbs are coming into bloom and trees are in blossom.

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

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

Until next time, stay safe,

Ceri xx

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

30 Minutes in the Life – March 2021 | Tree in Blossom

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Welcome to another month of the 30 Minutes in the Life blog circle!

I’ve been spending a lot of time recently playing with layers and using the Pep Ventosa technique to create photographic images that are impressionistic in style. A couple of weeks ago, while I was (socially distance) walking the dog with my parents, I saw a tree from a distance that was just coming into blossom. I knew I had to give it a few days but it was calling out to me to be photographed and I was keen to get back to it!

Another day, another dog walk, I made my way back to the lone tree with blossom in the field behind Fleet Pond.

After completing my mission, we headed through the field towards Fleet Pond. The dog loves the beach!

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed seeing a little piece of our world. Up next in the blog circle is the incredible Kim Sidwell of This One Ordinary Life. Please click here to visit Kim’s blog.

Until next time, stay safe,

~Ceri

March 6, 2021March 6, 2021

Share Six Blog Circle – March 2021 | Frozen

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The theme for this month’s Share Six Blog Circle is {Frozen}. Fortunately, here in Hampshire – southern England – we’ve not been quite as frozen as some of my Share Six colleagues. However, when we did have snow and ice earlier in the year, you can be sure I photographed it!

I absolutely adore using the Lensbaby Edge 80 whenever it snows. Perhaps that’s because when I first got the lens – my very first Lensbaby – I did a 30 Day change with it. I took a photo with it every single day. It was mid-winter, we were living in Massachusetts and we spent the whole month of January surrounded by multiple feet of snow. But that nostalgia aside, I love the multi-dimensional focal plan you can use with the Lensbaby Edge optics, as it really helps to emphasise being surrounded by falling snowflakes. With an Edge optic, you see depth, not just a single flat focal plane.

That’s why, when we woke up to snow one January morning and before anyone else was ready to be outside, I reached straight for my Edge 80 without even a second thought.

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If you’re interested in finding out more about Lensbaby lenses, please leave a comment below! Very excitingly, I can offer 10% off any full price Lensbaby order when you go to lensbaby.com and use the discount code: WHERD at the checkout.

I’m throwing in a few extra this month too, just for fun. Once the rest of the family were ready to head outside I switched to my Canon 24-70 2.8L for weather sealed versatility and off we went!

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

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

Until next time, stay safe,

Ceri xx