A Couple More Photographs

 I absolutely love this house. It's in my local park and is currently standing completely empty. I'm not really sure why it's there but surrounded by all the woodland and plants, it feels kind of lonely and it seems sad to see such a beautiful house stood there, going to waste.I've photographed it a couple of times, the last time was using my film camera (Pentax K1000) for my college Final Major Project.

This is another photograph I took on Sunday. I had to edit this photo a tiny bit as the snow looked very grey and the rest of the image was a bit dull. Whilst I was editing it all I did was adjust the contrast in the photo to brighten the whiteness of the snow and making the rest of the image slightly darker. The only thing I would change about this photo was that if I took I would get the couple to hold hands, just to add a bit of emotion to the photograph. I think it would also add a bit more sincerity to the photograph.

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Long Overdue Blog

Hey guys

I'm sooooooo sorry about not writing even though I keep promising on twitter and facebook that I was going to over the past couple of weeks. I've been so lacking in motivation lately that I just haven't been able to think of anything to write so when I did open my blog page to write a new entry I would just sit there blankly looking at an empty text box. Anyways I'm here now so I suppose thats what counts right?

Just to give you a little image in your head of where I am right now and what the weather is like, I'm sat in my bedroom at my desk waiting to see if my best friend will ome online tonight though I don't see that she will be as she's usually talking to me by now lol. I'm sooo glad I'm inside and not out there it is freezing cold and I don't envy you one bit Russia or any other European countries. From what I've seen on the news a lot of countries have had about 10 times more snow then we have so I could say that we've got off lightly though it is still about -3 to -4 during the night. (Thats just a guess as I haven't tried to go outside to check)


So today I'm going to talk some more about my photography work again, finally. I went out on Sunday, wrapped up nice and warm in my scarf and and bright pink coat, and took a fair few photographs of a few things that were covered in fluffy white fresh snow :). I love snow simply because it seems to bring out my inner child not that it takes much for me to act like that anyway. One of my favourites is this photographs off a squirrel sitting in a tree. Nature photography is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me as you can capture some very beautiful and magical moments, and people will always wonder how you took them. Without being big headed I kind of feel like this photo is one of those moments. It was so amazing that the squirrel seemed to sit there and waited for me to take my camera out of my bag, attach the appropriate lens ( I used my canon EF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6 lens), which allowed me to zoom up nice and close from the ground, and then stayed in that same position whilst I took 3 or 4 photographs whilst adjusting the manual settings. Once I had got my wanted image, only then did the squirrel move.

Another photo I really like is one I took of our local allotment area. There's something special about this. The way all the sheds rooftops are covered in snow and even the houses in the background makes everything seemed, some what peaceful. Especially as not surprisingly there was no one on the lot that day. I don't blame them it was absolutely freezing. I also like  the way the depth of field works in this photo. Alot of the time when you take a photo using an SLR the background blurs to draw attention to the foreground. However this time the foreground was what went out of focus, which resulted in the background being what catches your eye instead.
I did take a few more photographs which I will upload separately on here. For the rest of my photography you can fid it in the usual place of: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sarah-Thompson-Photography/145795518848615. More news on my photography work is that I have an interview for the University Campus Suffolk, one of three uni's I applied for. So up until the 14th March I shall be focusing on my portfolio work. So my apologies if my next entry isn't as frequent as my previous entries.

I have a fun filled next couple of weeks. I'm going to London on Saturday to see Olly Murs in concert ( some of you might not have heard of him) then on Sunday I'm going on a photoshoot with my friend Josh visiting lot's of abandoned buildings around the county of Suffolk. Then on the 25th February me , Leanne and Abbie are all going down to London to see Tom Law and Andrew Balkwill (I've mentioned them a couple of times in previous blog entries) as they are gigging together. It will be the first time I've seen Tom live and my third time seeing Andrew, he's amazing live and such a nice guy I can't wait. Don't worry I'll make sure I take plenty of photographs of the guys performing.

I'm now off to bed now as it's 10 past midnight and I'm getting fairly tired.
Goodnight everybody
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