Since I got the ipad mini, I had it in mind to use a nice knitty photo as my background – but all of the shots I already had were too busy to let the app icons show up properly, or had stuff in the wrong place that just didn’t work well as a background. [...]

When we woke to what some might call ‘a grand, soft day’ it seemed like the botanic gardens would be an excellent spot for a wander with the cameras. My poor 100mm macro hasn’t seen action in so long, it was lovely to rediscover it and how it reveals different worlds, slicing through a scene [...]

I had a bit of a flurry of ‘shooting for hire’ at the end of the year that a few personal shots got left to pile up in the ‘to blog’ folder, so here are some of them. We finally got around to that trip to sligo we’d been intending to do for about 3 [...]

I’ve only been to the spot where you get this view a handful of times, but I go there in my imagination quite often! It’s a beautiful place where you can breathe the freshest air and stare out into the vastness of the ocean and forget about alarm clocks and deadlines and emails…   The [...]

There’s something lovely about a wee stop in Wales, just to round off the trip with a spin through the beautiful valleys and this time we discovered the BEST carrot cake in the world, in a tiny bakery in Betws-y-Coed. Thankfully, it’s easier to go back there for carrot cake than Belgium for beer, or France [...]

On the way through France again, the sight of a field of mostly-still-alive-sunflowers called for a quick photo stop and as much as I tried I couldn’t get around for a shot of their faces but then I spotted this little cheeky one… still, next time, we’re going in full on sunflower season. Now, where [...]

Of course, no gingerbread house is complete without a bunny in the garden! I did some spur of the moment gingerbread baking and didn’t fancy putting an entire house together so i made some biscuits and this little house facade, which was just the right size to sit on my little cake stand, perfect! I [...]