Friday My Town Shoot Out: Earth Day

Happy Earth Day to all!

What a wonderful world we live in!

Friday My Town Shoot Out: My Collections!

Hello there! This weeks assignment is collections! I thought about this and I realised I have collections of a lot of things like:

Teacups

Marbles (and the occassional pretty moth)

and lots of trinkets and treasures!

To make this a my town shoot out, all these collections were from the amazing city of Liverpool!

Have a wonderful weekend all!

Cheerio!

Friday my town shoot out: The letter F!

Frozen spider web
Feeding the Birds
Some Fiery red sunset clouds.

Flying over bridges
Stomping through Fields
Fish Clouds
and staring at Far away lights!

Friday My Town Shoot Out: Black and White!

I am late, totally missed last week, but I did it for this week! Life is a whirlwind, I was thinking "there's something I have forgot to do..." and this was it and I don't like missing ut on these posts, so here I go!!!! Three moons Treasure chest

WBD: Wee Black Dress

Catherdal: Liverpool

Cressington Railway station: Liverpool

Gotta fly.........!

A Long Absense...... Friday Shoot Out:Marco!

Fairy Light

Lion Statue at St. Luke's Church, Liverpool

Starlight to Sunlight

Diamond Edges

Snow Cap Post Box at the Top of My Street



Hello! It has been long far too long, but I just had to get back in the swing of things again for 2011! Great to be taking part in the Friday Shoot Out once again! Happy Friday to you all!

Friday Town Shootout - Trees

Today's topic is honouring the trees. I do love trees. I always remember as a child being fascinated for hours in my grandmothers big garden by her cheery blossom trees, picking the flowers to make perfume bottles, inspecting the trunk and bark for that sticky sap that intrigued me endlessly and picking a leaf and going indoors when the rain fell and tracing the veins and shoots from the leaf at the kitchen table, with a pot of tea and the cosy, with sconces in the oven! Let me take you for a walk down one of our local parks in Liverpool. Otterspool is famous for it's promenade but I had never discovered the park before either, so it was first time for me too.

As you walk towards the park, this sight greets you. This looks like the path to a land of elves and fairies

and the flowers on these cherry blossoms does not restricted it blooms to branches, they grow loyally at their trees trunk

and their flowers have the most delicate features.

As you walk through the path you are enveloped in the wonderful fragrance of the blooms and archway forms.

Out on to the start of a path lined with all various trees. This was a enchanting place as the motorway is perched high above it, but you can not hear a noise only for snapping twigs, the laughing of the swaying leaves and the joyous song of the birds.

There were wonderful stair ways and old paths walls hidden like a secret garden amongst the city,

and the pathway was old faded brick, over a thousand differents steps from people down the ages taking you back in time.
I love that even if you kept your head down the shadows of the trees always remind you they are there.

This tree I found on my travels bemused me a bit. I had never gazed upon one like it before. But I liked it just the same.
I loved the way the trees adapted to where they grew

just rooting themselves down
some trees had branches to swing by

and some trees just asking to be climbed up!

I even found a secret cave!But I had found what i had really come for

The mammoth big roots,

like nothing could tear this tree down!

But is kind enough to let a holly bush start growing amongst it!

It truly is the big daddy of the trees in this park!

had a wonderful time and I will definitely go here again! to see the rest of the gangs photography click on the My shoots link on the sidebar! Happy Friday to ya!

My Town friday Shootout - Country Lanes

Now, living in the big city of Liverpool, I was finding it hard to find a wee dusty trail to walk down. So I sort of made up my own. This lane is just off the road I live. It looks intriguing and legend has it, (alright then, Wikipedia) that this lane made way to a huge orchard planted here in the 1800's. The walls are from that time and still stand, but instead of an orchard, there now lies between the walls grand mansions and lofty trees.



This lane reminds me of something out of a Charles Dickson's book. Cobbles holding in the secrets of the years past. Hellish to walk on in heels though.

Now here is a lovely wee lane it would seem, the seabed!

When the tide goes out some adventurous, some would say foolish souls race with the tide and walk along the bed before she washes back in and sweeps them away. It would too, the currents in these waters are fierce. How they get back up to dry land, I do not know.

Never mistake the stillness and reflections in the water, it will always know better than you, underneath is a swirling whirling current. Even the boats do not come up this far in the water only big tankers for the current is so strong.

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Have a nice weekend everyone!

Friday Town Shootout - Bokeh

I loved this assignment for the Friday My town shoot out, but boy I found it hard and I do not think I created what officially is bokeh, in which is a Japanese term for blur. I will have to try harder on this subject as when I went to shoot out and about it was just all fuzzy! I own a wee point and shoot camera and researched well on the photography subject and although it is possible with a point and shoot,due to it's limited settings (aperture I think it is called, see did my research!) it is very hard. Thank you so much for this topic and many of the topics we have covered, it has inspired me to take some photography lessons! I must go now and check out all your posts and see how bokeh is really done! Have a great weekend!