Fine Art Photographer | Hampshire, UK
Summer is here, summer is here! One week left of school and we’re so ready for summer to really start!
Today however, I’m looking back to May: the weather was changeable, Spring was barely springing, I got a new lens and a new website, and I spent more than two days photographing only dandelions:
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Up next in our blog circle is the exceptionally talented Tracy of Bee Cherished. Click Here to see what she has in store for us this month!
Until next time,
~Ceri
The second month of our {Inspired by Life} blog is here and with it come the highlights of my photographic February. It was a quiet month and quick month, and the photographic highs felt few and far between, but here they are nonetheless. Make sure to scroll all the way down for the link to follow the circle onwards.
1st February
2nd February
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28th February
Thank you for taking the time to scroll all the way through! If you’ve made it this far please continue around the blog circle. Click Here to see what work my wonderfully talented friend Brandi Geoghagan has shared with us this month.
Until next time,
~Ceri
I’m thrilled to be joining another group of talented photographers for a new monthly blog circle. I’m going to be using the {Inspired by Life} posts to share some of my favourites images from the previous month’s 365. I haven’t admitted it publically but I kick-started my second 365 this January. I’m yet to compile the results of my first 365 (2015-2016) so I was reluctant to start another but a new lens for Christmas and the learning curve that followed meant a solid month of practice was necessary. What better way to start a 365 than a month of the project already complete!
As many of my photographer friends know, I lusted after all the Lensbaby lenses for quite some time. It was only a matter of time until one found its way to me. Christmas 2017 my Lensbaby wishes came true and I became the proud owner of an Edge 80. Unsurprisingly, given my love of dreamy softness, it didn’t take long for it to feel like home.
Before I get around to the 365 images I thought I’d share with you my starting point: Christmas Day. We were also brought a beautiful winter storm, so my very first images with my Lensbaby were through windows out onto a snowy wonderland.
With a few more days practice under my belt, 2018 rolled around and my Month of Lensbaby began:
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Day 31
Thank you for taking the time to scroll all the way through! If you’ve made it this far please continue around the blog circle. Click Here to see what the wonderfully talented Melissa Clemons has shared with us this month.
Until next time,
~Ceri
Spring in Scottsdale is a wonderful time to be a photographer and a perfect time for daily photo challenge. Yesterday I published a gallery of my favourite nature images from my Spring Freelensed Project (Part I), but Spring isn’t just about nature; it’s about making the most of the great weather (and conversely, getting out the heat as the summer approaches). So today I bring you my favourite people (and dog) images from the project:
If you’d like to see more images from this project, you can see them on my facebook page…here. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below.
Thanks for stopping by,
~ Ceri ~
A photo each day for a whole year: Project 366
(you know it’s a leap year, right?)
I joined the Facebook photographic community almost exactly one year ago. I’ve ‘virtually’ met so many wonderful people in that time; I’ve opened my eyes to admire and support the talents of many more; and I’ve watch those talents grow and evolve. Following the work of some amazingly talented artists, I’ve heard it so many times:
“…doing a 365 has helped me grow…”
“…I learned so much doing a 365…”
“…I’m a different photographer now, thanks to my 365”
“my 365 photo journal is my most precious keepsake…”
“…just do it, you’ll see the benefits!”
But for me, the prospect of a whole year, taking a photo every single day…. that was (and still is) absolutely terrifying: ‘I don’t have the talent these other photographers have to grow in the way they have; what if I have days where I don’t like any of my images?; what if I’m so busy I forget to take a picture?; what if I fail?!’
it is time to stop fearing failure
In September 2015 I began the Freelensed Fall Project with some fellow photograhers: a freelensed photo every day for two months. I told myself if I succeeded I would use it as the start of a Project 365. And I did succeed. And after that, I documented the daily adventures of Estelar the Elf. And so I started 2016 with three months of a project already completed, and yet I still didn’t have any public accountability. Because admitting that I had started the project opened up the possibility of failure. I feared failure.
As we moved into the new year, I made a resolution: 2016 is going to be my year to grow (photographically speaking, not my waistline…), to push myself, to find my style and my direction. I am going to work really really hard. Therefore it is time I made myself accountable.
my name is Ceri Herd and I am doing a Project 366
In the first few weeks of 2016 I can already see improvements, I’m thinking more creatively, I’m finding inspiration everywhere. So failure isn’t a possibility. Whether I make it to September (or dare I say it, the end of the year so I can make a complete 2016 book) or not, I have already succeeded.
Matching feet | 117/366
