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check me out... 2 days in a row !

Well today me, the little one and nanna went to Lowther gardens in Lytham today.. its basically a fancy park!

it was a really nice day and not just weather wise, we have a lot of stuff going on at the minute family wise and we just managed to get away and relax for a few hours! But here I'll let you see some of the pictures.. 

They aren't particularly artsy or anything, they are just 3 generations having a nice relaxing time in amongst all the stress of life !!

me and my gorgeous little Lily..

This is Lily and her nanna!

 she wasn't a big fan of us trying to keep the sun off her head!

 om nom nom... bib

 and then she even got treated to a new dress... such a lucky little girl!...

Well that was just a really happy day for me and I just wanted to share it with you all.. no matter how bad life can get, you should always take a minute to breath!

:) 

xo

it's official, i'm still a novice !

I say I'm still a novice... I actually know ALOT more than when I first started which for self teaching has got to be a good thing :)

Starting to learn a bit more about f-stops and shutter speeds... white balances and other stuff like that still not 100% on how to do it with my camera, yet!

But moving on to todays pictures I had 9 days off and pretty much every single day it was bucketing it down with rain, so as soon as I got an all right day I was out and here are some of the results....

First off my favourite image of the day 

I have this one and one slightly darker and one slightly brighter... and I change my mind on which I prefer constantly!

This next one is my mums favourite! for this picture I was just trying out having the focus in the foreground with something big behind..

Then I tried it a little closer and tbh I prefer this next picture

I then just went round the church taking random pictures seeing what I could find, there were a few things but I don't rate any of the pictures fantasticly but here are a few..

none of these pictures have been edited at all... and I do have a few more but these are just a sample :) 

Hope you enjoy and please leave any feedback and comments you have! 

:D

Right before nandos!...

Today I went round to my friend Vickis with the full intention to practice some portrait shots, but ended up getting distracted by the vase of flowers in her living room!..

This is Vicki !

I tried all sorts of shots, different angles, different focus' trying to focus on one flower then another, I even tried removing pettles because they bent the wrong way and I didn't like them sticking up like that!

We then decided to go to Nandos but had to wait for our other friend to get dressed so I decided to then take some pictures of a set of ducks.. which did NOT go so great haha anyway here are the results!

This was my first attempt and wasn't to happy and the bottom left corner but was still rather pleased with how it came out

I then tried again zoomed in slightly closer, which I was rather happy with... 

Then this was supposed to be just a general picture of them all with them getting blurred further to the back.. I really liked the way this one turned out!

On this picture it took me a while to get as this is the one I wasn't happy with the pettle because it was bent upwards, so Vicki suggested take them out so I did and then put one back but upside down so it looked normal because it had left a gap.

I like this one but it's probably not many peoples cup of tea.. I just like the crispness of the yellow against the white with the blurred living room behind.

And this is my favourite flower picture from today.

I just love everything about it... but please comments!! 

After all of these flower pictures I decided to take some pictures of model ducks.. which did not go so succesfully! 

 
 Some were over exposed some were under and some I just didn't like.. 

 Basically it was a pointless venture for me... please do give feedback though! 

Hope you enjoyed todays!! 

as always feedback very welcome :)