Tagged: whats on your ipod?
Iv been tagged by the lovely Emma over at mummymummymum to discover whats on your piod by selecting shuffle and seeing what shows up. I have to say i am a bit nervous about this as a LOT of stuff on my ipod (i use my iphone mostly for music now) is kids stories and music..so here's hoping some cool looking stuff shuffles up and not Thomas the tank engine stories and Charlie and Lola…
here goes…
shuffling:
first up:
Take that: Beautiful World
Stevie Wonder: Isnt she lovely
David Grey: Say hello Wave Goodbye
Gabrielle and Troy: Start of something new (coughcoughcough)
Billy Joel: We didnt start the Fire
Only slightly mortified that a High School Musical song popped up. The Stevie Wonder song we played over a film we put together for my daughters dedication and she calls it 'her song' now.
Tagging the ten on tuesday ladies..C'mon
and not forgetting my blogging super star friend:
its saturday Caption day again…
#thegallery..
the gallery this week is about photography resolutions….as in new year resolutions. I stopped doing new year resolutions because i couldn't stand the pressure but i think im going to roll with a few photography based ones…i could come up with a few…
I want to:
Understand LIGHT – i mean more than i do, natural light, artificial light, Flash wizardry that so may of the top pro's use. LIGHT – its what it is all about right? and very excited to be hopefully going on a training day just about this…
More MANUAL baby – I shoot in manual all the time pretty much. I can't think of a time when i don't anymore but there is more to know, i know it. I know so little of what my camera can do.
Get some tuition on how to create these sort of images:
obviously NONE of these images are mine. Im just sharing them to show the sort of thing i would like to learn. i have had a go with the newborns i have photographed but it would be very good to watch a pro work.
This sort of baby posing is really popular in North America and until recently i was at a bit of a loss to find a UK based speciality baby posing photograher but then a friend tweeted they were going for a training day with this photographer and when i went to her website i got myself very excited about the prospect of spending a day with her, which hopefully i will get to do in the summer. eeeeep…
and on a less professional and more personal note…document my story…our story… more.
Just this last week a professional photographer i have had the pleasure of spending a day with just before baby james 5 was born posted this remarkable photograph of the moment when his daughter was born…
image taken by Brett Harkness
i love this image so much. I love how it is such a faithful representation of that moment when life begins. Natural, messy, raw. I find it really moving and i have seen this moment in real life many many times over ( and no im not talking about my own babies..was otherwise occupied for those moments!)
But funnily enough what i drew from this photograph personally was something that Brett said in a FB conversation that started after he posted it. Some people commented that they felt it was too gory and Brett responded by saying that as a photographer and father he could see past it but also as a documenter of time he could as well. It was those words 'documenter of time' that i really latched on to.
Of course this image shows a fairly HOOGE moment in time for anyone and so it has incredible impact but it made me think about documenting the moments, significant and insignificant in my timeline, my story. With a fancy camera or an iphone. Not important. I want to watermark those moments and leave a timeline in the sand.
Here's hoping i can do that this year…
ten on tuesday….
yes…i know its wednesday 🙂
1. My 3 year old daughter has caught on to the older kids saying things like 'you are the best baby/mummy/daddy in the world' but when she repeats it she missed out the word best and so this afternoon said to her baby sister. "You are the BABY in the whole world'
2. My youngest has a fascination with our house phone handset. Which for those of you who have ever tried to call us on our land line know how difficult it is to get hold of anyone. Even harder now when you have to try and imagine where a 16 month old may have chosen to stash it.
3.Lots of people on FB and twitter are commenting on the current series of One Born Every Minute. I just can't bring myself to watch it. I saw one episode that was filmed in the hospital where i work and was pretty alarmed at some of the antics of ladies in labour….that and maybe its just a bit too busmans holiday…
4. I was chatting to my son about the how to remember what months have 31 days in them and what days have 30 etc and we were chatting about February and the fact that it has 29 days this year instead of 28. He says 'yeah so there are 366 days this year instead of 365' and then i suddenly worked out why people doing the photo every day challenge this year are all tweeting #366 *duh*
5. Just wondering why a shop that charges a small fortune for its kid's shoes can't give its staff a few lessons in customer service. yes that would be Clarks. The Shoe Mafia… *blowsraspberry*
6. I met a lovely doctor's surgery receptionist yesterday. Yes i know those words don't usually exist in the same sentence but i rolled up for a health visitor appointment yesterday having dragged myself out of bed (night worked on monday) and arrived a bit bleary eyed and asked to be checked in. The receptionish said 'oh we seem to have this appointment booked in for next tueday?" I stare at her…blankly. She has a look of panic and then says 'ill see if she can see you' and rushes off. She couldn't but after i whined at her 'butihavejustworkedanightandhavehadnosleepandimgoingtostartcryinganyminute" she booked me a Dr's appointment. I walked out feeling completely justified that i had made a small scene and then i looked in my dairy and saw that i had my weekly insert thing on the wrong week. which was in fact next week….*oops* i think i might take her flowers 🙂
7. Some music…of course..
we listened to this album the other day and she has an AMAZING voice but OH MY GOODNESS..this is one bitter chick. Some guy must have clearly done a number on her as this whole album is about having a broken heart. Poor love. Well on the up side, whoever did it made her pretty wealthy 🙂
8. Speaking of music, my son has got a ipod docking station in his room and has taken to nicking my little ipod to listen to some tunes. Hoping he doesn't come across the PINK album i have on there. Thats one slightly twisted, sharp tongued musician he doesn't really need introducing to at the age of 9 methinks.
9. We need a bigger house PURELY for all the excess coats, hats, scarves, gloves etc that go with winter season. Clearly another very good reason why we need to move somewhere HOT. That and my children could walk about barefoot. See barefoot = no monster shoe mountain threatening your safe exit from the house
10. I mentioned on twitter how i could seriously do without the school run in my life. I got folk we know who live in America/Canada sending me messages saying 'we miss the socialising and the excerise' of walking to school and nattering at the gate. Yeah nice try…i still think the yellow bus system woudld be like gold in my life right now.
linking up with the ladies:
and not forgetting my blogging super star friend: