News - What's on my mind? wk3

I was really excited recently to have the opportunity to visit Ascot House where my Great Great Grandfather used to work in the early 1900’s as coachman to Lady Rothschild.  My mission was to match up the photos.....

Are you having a staycation this year? Even if you are just holidaying at home, there's always an opportunity to capture some memories with your camera.These days, most of us have our smart phones in our bag all the time so there's no excuse - and they are so sophisticated that you can get wonderful pictures for your albums. Do you remember 'that' advert from the 1990s, with renowned photographer David Bailey using a compact camera at a wedding?   I wonder what he'd choose now? What is your camera of choice, I'd love to know.  Do you use a...

I've listened to what you've been saying about making scrapbooking easier and less time consuming. The weekly sketch is exactly what it says...  a sketch to inspire you to make a page.You don't need to think about design, just pick up your crafting stuff and get going. A simple layout that you can copy quickly or adapt as you wish.Its completely free, all you have to do is click the photo below and let me know you want it.  

I've been focussing (ha! get it?) on taking images every day.  This way I learn more about my camera as I use it regularly, but I'm looking at my day to day life rather than just special occasions and holidays (how i wish I'd got photos of me at work to show my children) What about documenting the everyday - your everyday?..... If you had an album of how your great grandmother and grandfather lived their daily lives, wouldn't that be the most compelling and interesting book to leaf through? So why not create that for your future family.  A...

  I have a beautiful Victorian photo album, passed on from my grandparents.  Its leather bound, a weighty volume with a rusty metal clasp, and when I open the pages I smell that musty, stale aroma that often accompanies old books.  I often retrieve it from the shelf, settle down on my sofa with a cuppa, and slowly turn the pages, looking at the faces of my distant family peering back at me from the sepia coloured images.  I muse over their lives, what the occasion of the photograph was….  Was it a once in a lifetime chance to visit...