Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts

18 May 2014

Leeds visit photos

Last weekend was my birthday and Michael and I visited Leeds to celebrate. We'd not been back to Leeds since we graduated from university there and wanted to see it again. Here's some photos from our trip.


Our hotel room

The view

The Market
The Great Hall where we sat so many uni exams
The Roger Stevens building where I spent most of my days in lectures

The steps to Parkinsons, usually filled with students

Staircase in the Royal Armouries

Some of my favourite exhibitions at the Armouries

All time favourite!

Some of these had giant moustaches!

The vampire slaying exhibition



7 December 2012

Snow day!

It's snowing in Roermond today, quite heavily as well. Michael and I went for a walk in the snow this morning.

Take a look at the pictures below, and come back tomorrow for a review and giveaway!


 


3 December 2012

Big thanks to Nancy and the first snow of the season

Nancy at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is holding a wonderful giveaway every day throughout the days leading up to Christmas. On the first day, I was lucky enough to win a beautiful chart. I had a choice of four, and I picked this one:


I don't know when I'll have a chance to stitch it, but it does look lovely. It also looks like it could be up all year round and not just at Christmas.

We've had our first bit of snow a couple of days ago, and today it's snowing quite earnestly. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, I'm not sure) it's not sticking, but it still looks nice coming down. This is the view from our windows.


26 November 2012

Christmas decorations in Roermond

I haven't really got any crafty stuff to show you again, so here's some photos of the Christmas/Sinterklaas decorations in our town of Roermond, the Netherlands.


You could say, they're living in the present. Hoho.


13 November 2012

England Holiday Part 2: Birmingham


After the week in Ipswich we spent a little under a week in Birmingham. A four hour coach trip took us from Stansted Airport across to the bus station in Digbeth. The same evening a fireworks show was being held nearby, so we went to watch.

I took nearly 600 photos of the fireworks (high shutter speeds and continuous shooting...), but here's a couple of my favourites.



We spent most of the rest of our time playing with the animals.


This is Romeo, he loves to be adored and will spend all day on your lap.


Charlie lives in a world of his own, but he is very sweet and likes a cuddle when he appears.


Ozzy is sweet but very wriggly. My mum has another dog and cat, but I didn't manage to get photos of them.  They are not such posers as this lot above.

While in Birmingham my mum suggested we go up to a quilting shop called The Cotton Patch, as they have lots of lovely fabrics, and also needle felting supplies. Mum bought be an early Christmas present of some fabrics and a needle felting starter kit and some wools.



Unfortunately I had to leave the needle felting stuff behind as it didn't fit in my bag on the way back, but I had a go while I was there, I'll show you what I made in another post.

It was nice to go back to the UK after being in the Netherlands for over a year. It has set us thinking that we should move back to the UK as soon as we can. The Netherlands feels a bit bland when compared to England.

16 September 2012

Nikon workshop and zoological adventure


A couple of months ago I bought myself a Nikon D5100 digital SLR camera, when I bought it, it came with an offer to go on a one day workshop at a zoo in the Netherlands. Yesterday I went on said workshop at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem.

The workshop was basic, and we started out with being explained how the camera works, and how it is different from your regular digital compact cameras, and after an explanation of all the main features (aperture, shutter speed and ISO) we did some practical work.

There's lots of photos ahead, so there's more after the jump, such as elephants, meerkats and gorillas hoarding red peppers.