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February 22, 2021February 22, 2021

30 Minutes in the Life – February 2021 | Hartland Country Park

Welcome to another 30 Minutes in the Life blog circle! This month I’m sharing images from a walk we took last weekend. We visited a new spot – Hartland Country Park in Fleet, Hampshire – and it was such a pleasant surprise. It has some growing-in to do in places but there were so many photo opportunities! I was really taken by all the tones and textures of the trees, and had a lovely time working on some ICM (intentional camera movement).

I’ll be looking forward to returning in the spring when it is a little warmer and a littler greener!

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

Until next time, stay safe,

~Ceri

January 4, 2021January 3, 2021

30 Minutes in the Life Blog Circle | New Year’s Day 2021

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Happy New Year! Happy 2021!

Although this is technically our December blog circle, I wanted to share images from our New Year’s Day walk with you. I know I would become melocolic if I were to reflect on Christmas and the past year, and with so many unknowns, I haven’t yet found the optimism needed to look forward to the year ahead. Living each day day-by-day, focusing on what we can do, rather than what we can’t, I’m choosing to focus on the now. With bitterly fresh air to fill the lungs, a family dog walk was exactly what was needed to blow away some of those Christmas cobwebs and the lazy overindulgences.

Just a few miles from our home is an Iron Age hill fort, Caesar’s Camp. Caesar’s Camp stands 177 metres (581 ft) above mean sea level and on a clear day there are views reaching as far as London. When I say ‘a few miles’ from home, I’m not exaggerating. It is a 5 minute drive! When we left home I could see that the cloud cover would prevent us seeing much on this particular occasion, but it was dry, there wasn’t any frost and the cloud cover seemed relatively high. It seemed like a good day for a walk, but I wasn’t sure I’d need my camera (but you know, new year, new focus and all that, meant that the camera was coming too)! As we drove up the hill towards the parking area we were astounded to drive into the clouds and see the frost line appear before our eyes! Maybe I would need my camera after all!

Parts of the lake were frozen and the boys were trying to find (and bounce stones off) the ice:

This is where the view should be:

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

Until next time, stay safe,

~Ceri

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020

Share Six Blog Circle – December 2020 | Storytelling

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This month at Share Six, we’re looking at images that tell a story. Can you tell a complete story through a single image? What message are you trying to convey, does it take more than one image to say it or can you frame the scene to say it all?

The balloon experiment, a lockdown science project:

Caught in the rain:

The daily chaos of the morning school run:

The tireless pursuit of coffee and the boy who reads anywhere and everywhere:

Sulking:

Checkmate:

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

Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Liz of 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

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

30 Minutes in the Life Blog Circle | November 2020

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It’s been a few months since I’ve been able to join in with the 30 Minutes in the Life blog circle. Life kept getting in the way. I’m so glad to be back!

For this month’s 30 Minutes in the Life, I’m sharing a Sunday morning stroll along the Basingstoke Canal. This beautiful waterway is just a few minutes from home, and sometimes, just sometimes, the light is absolutely perfect.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed seeing a little piece of our world. Up next in the blog circle is the incredibleJanet Crouch. Please click here to visit Janet’s blog.

Until next time,

~Ceri

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020

Share Six Blog Circle – November 2020 | Traditions

Traditions.

It is two years to the day since we left the USA for good. Last year it was an anniversary that came and went with a small recognition of the whirlwind of a year it had been. This year however, I’m not ashamed to say that I’m struggling, in no small part due to the pandemic and the US election.

As we begin our second national lockdown and face the prospect of Christmas without all the usual bells and whistles, I find myself feeling overly nostalgic and overwhelmingly sad at the state of the world.

Looking forward, I find myself focusing on the impact lockdown will have on our annual festive traditions. Last year we went to see the Christmas lights at Longleat, in the US we took annual trips on the Grand Canyon Polar Express and to the Phoenix Zoo Zoolights. In a mad panic to maintain normality, last week I booked us tickets to see the Christmas lights at Blenheim Palace. Who knows if we’ll get there with the ever-changing government guidelines, but it is definitely something to look forward to!

I’ve been looking through old images for this post. Now I’m deep in a hole reminiscing about the places we’ve been over the past five years and the traditions we made, and weeping at the thought of those traditions being on-hold this year.

Having a good ol’ sing song on the Polar Express in 2016!

This next one is a throwback to our first trip on the Polar Express in 2014. They were so small!

Searching back through the archives, one thing seems to tie every year together, and clearly it’s one tradition that we’ll be able to hold on to this year after all. There is always hot chocolate!

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

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, stay safe,

Ceri xx