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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 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

February 6, 2021February 6, 2021

Share Six Blog Circle – February 2021 | Silver Lining

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A {Silver Lining} might seem hard to find for a lot of us right now, but that’s exactly why Share Six is exploring that theme this month. I’ve spent hours thinking about what my silver lining is and what images to post. I’ve been thinking about what I’m grateful for and what positives I feel at the end of each day. It comes down to this:

I am grateful for the additional time I have had to create images since the beginning of the year. I am grateful I was strong enough to make a choice – a choice that is now giving me the time I need to rediscover myself when I hadn’t realised how lost I was. I am grateful for friends who have pushed me, guided me and encouraged me to find my way back into doing what I love. They know who they are.

Integral to this, I’m currently 3-weeks in to a 4-week workshop with Click Photo School (Clickin Moms). It is called Creative Approach. The workshop is led by insanely talented Ardelle Neubert, and it has been exactly what I needed at exactly the right time. I thought I’d use this theme to share some of my images from the workshop with you.

This is the therapy for my soul that I need while we face these challenging times.

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

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

January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

Share Six Blog Circle – January 2021 | Details

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A new year, a new Share Six theme! To kick-off 2021, we’re focusing on the {details}.

There are lots of ‘details’ going on in all our lives right now that I could focus on, but I know if I do I’ll get sucked down a rabbit hole of emotions. So instead, let’s keep this simple.

I love to take a single subject:

And examine it:

To find new angles:

And to focus on what makes that subject an individual:

And find a new level of creativity:

This is the therapy for my soul that I need while we face these challenging times.

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

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

Until next time, stay safe,

Ceri xx