Went to Sweden at the end of July and beginning of August (for almost 2 weeks) to see my family and have a bit of a holiday. It was roasting most of the time I was there, but one of the weekends there was torrential downpour. However, 2 hours later this was the only sign of any rain on the decking in my parents' back garden.
First idea for my travel journal for my trip to New York in August/September :DI am still to this day in slight disbelief that it's actually happening.. but at this point it's just under 6 weeks until I actually go! :D
Converse shoes from the shop window of one of the shoe shops in Nottingham.
Walked in to town from work the other week and was testing out my Canon EOS M. This is again with the 40mm lens and the mount adapter.
Having passed the 5 year mark at work in January (still can't believe it's been 5 years already) I got a BonusBond voucher for long service, and I ended up using it towards buying myself the Canon EOS M. It's a compact system camera and you can change the lenses on it as you would on an SLR, but it's considerably smaller. With the camera I also bought a Canon mount adapter which basically allows me to attach any EF mount lens that fits on my Canon 600D DSLR. The below is the Canon EF-M 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM lens that came with the Canon EOS M, and my MacBook Pro in the background. Took it using the Canon EF 40mm lens attached with the mount adapter as one of the first few photos whilst testing the adapter.
My little stack of photography books :) The top one is the Humans of New York book. Love the concept of what he (Brandon Stanton) does, and bought myself the book as an early christmas present last year. The book has been an inspiration, and has also in part fuelled my dreams of going to New York.There is also the HONY Facebook page, giving you your fix right there as you are wasting time on Facebook ;)
Had a wander around town on Saturday, mainly because the weather was nice, but also to test out the geotagging app I'd downloaded earlier in the week.The geotagging app, called Geotag Photos Pro, worked a treat. I've just uploaded my file and have geotagged the photos I took on my DSLR on Saturday :)
As it was nice weather on Saturday the fountain on Old Market Square was full of children running around playing in the water (like it was summer or something). This little girl was definitely enjoying herself.
So Thursday this week was World Book Day. I have a bit of a thing for books, you could say.. These are some books I've gotten in the last couple of months. Currently they actually live on my desk, in a pile, because I've run out of room in my bookcase.. I was 11 or 12 I think when I read my first fantasy novel - it was The Belgariad by David Eddings. Now, I was a bit of a book enthusiast before then; but those books are what got me into the fantasy (and later sic-fi) genre. I stopped reading novels translated into Swedish when I was about 16 and I got fed up of waiting for the latest book in the Wheel of Time series. Got the English one from the school library, and haven't looked back since. To this day however, I have still not read The Belgariad in English.
To be honest I have not been reading as much as I used to in the last few years. And really, I need to stop buying more books - I've got plenty of them which I haven't read yet already. I got myself a Kindle a couple of years ago, but I don't know.. there something special about an actual book. The last book I read was The Shack, which I got for christmas 2012. I read the first half on my way over to Sweden for christmas, and the other half on my way back home. Just could not put it down when I started reading it.
Double rainbow! :)This was just out my lounge window as I hurried to get the camera when I saw it, and it was gone a few minutes later.
Spring is in the air :)
New glasses as of two weeks ago. My geek glasses :)As I've been battling a cold for the best part of the week, this weeks photo was taken from the comfort of my sofa..
Saturday last weekend I had a wander around town and tried out my lens. I got the Canon EF 40mm f/2.8 STM as a bit of a "spur of the moment"-purchase when buying a flash gun (the Canon Speedlite 430EX II) since Canon was doing a winter sale cash back offer. I already love my Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II lens, so buying the 40mm one seemed like a good idea. It might be my imagination, but the photos taken with the 40mm lens seem sharper than those taken using the 50mm lens. Either way, I am well pleased with the new lens - and it's taken me a while to decide on which photo to post for last week. The photo below is down Market Street towards Old Market Square.