Photo Challenge Week 9-12

I have been lacking in updating my photo challenge each week, so here is the last 4 weeks worth.

Week 9- Self-Portrait ( Not for the faint hearted)

This is a very interesting self-portrait as I used a face pack my parents brought back for me from New Zealand. It left my skin feeling amazing!

Week 10- 11.30Am

Okay so this should have been  10am but I was still in bed on the day I took it! So instead it is 11.30. I took a little trip down to Kings Road my mums old haunt when she was younger.

Week 11- Spring Fever

Spring is in the air, it is still a little chilly but the weather has been lovely apart from a little rain here and there. But blossoms are always lovely to see at the start of the Spring.

Week 12- Green

Green was a little difficult, I guess I should have done something related to St Patricks Day that week but I'm not at all fussed with this day. I did come across an interesting green plant. Here is the little update so far of the challenge and I will try and keep it more updated.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Happy Chinese New Year! And this year is the year of the Goat (or sheep) but anyways its my year!. Today in inspiration of Chinese New Year I thought I would take me and my Nan to Chinatown. The dancing of the dragons is happening this weekend but it was still a lovely atmosphere to be in with people handing out red envelopes for luck.

I have also decided this will be part of my photography challenge 'Just for Fun'.

Week 8- Just for fun 

While there I picked up some very yummy  Chinese food items to go with my Chinese meal I was cooking later that night.

I will say the biscuits was hard to decipher but I figured out they were a blueberry cheesecake I think but they are so yummy and in very adorable package. We brought a red bean bun that my nan looked very interested in and when warmed it was lovely. I should visit Chinatown more often really. For dinner I thought I would cook a receipe from River Cottage- Veg which was the 5 spiced Chinese winter stir-fry. And this was amazing and lovely going with my peach soda with a glass ball inside to create the fizz.

For dessert we had some peanut and sesame seed mochi. Now I love chocolate mochi so thought I would give this a try. I will say if you like peanut butter than this is your thing. I personally wouldnt be able to eat too many though but they were worth a try and different obviously.

Me and my Nan in Chinatown

Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! 

Upgrading the Diary

Last month I brought myself a diary so I could keep track of my blogging posts, work, appointments, birthdays and obviously anything photography related. I brought this lovely diary from paperchase and just loved the print automatically.

The diary at the start is a little bit boring as I didn't know really what I could do or use on all those big spaces on each day and then I though why not turn it into a little simple art journal/ doodles in relation to that day. Obviously I can't do everyday but if I can document a little bit of my life every now and again it would be nice to look back. I have plenty of patterned tape and washi tape and thought this would be perfect to separate out the months of the pages doing only at the beginning of the month and on page that has a special occasion. I then added a couple of stickers here and there just to brighten it up a little.

To remind me also every Monday I have stamped a camera and then wrote what each photography challenge is that week so fingers crossed this will help me to remind me I need to do this!

You never know depending how nice the page is I might even let you guys have a look, on the day of course

Little Catch up on my Photography Challenge.

Okay so I haven't been brilliant with keeping up to dates with this so here is the last two weeks I am missing.

Week 4- What inspires me: Well this was quite easy but I could not think of a way to photograph it apart from just photographing my books and I have the photographers work. Both Horst and Tim Walker are what inspired me to become a photographer in the first place. I just loved Horst surreal style and then the quirky whimsical style of Tim Walkers work. Both from different eras but I feel they have similarities.

Week 5- Sweet/Hearts: Okay, so this will be my first year without a Valentine, sad I know right. Anyways I saw these adorable dozen heart shaped biscuits and knew they would be perfect. Better than my original idea which was just to get a packed of the sweetheart sweets and photographing them.

A Trip First Class

Today was my final day spending some time with my parents, and it was time for me to head back home to London. Now of course I had to travel in style so I went first class, which little tip if you book a month in advance is really cheap plus if you have a railcard it's an extra bonus cheap bonus on the price!

The seats are comfortable and the service was lovely today. For example, I couldn't open my bottle of water so the guy that was handing out teas and coffees help me to undo it and mentioned they always seem to have a problem with these and it pays off for him going to the gym. Maybe because I have started going to the gym I might be able to open really tough bottles of water.
The journey was quick and pleasant while I was sat watching Sherlock Holmes, that I never got to finish as we had pulled up into London St Pancras with 30 mins left to spare on my film. I will probably have to finish that off tonight.

Week 7- Black and White

I know I have not been brilliant posting for my 52 week challenge, but the theme for this week was black and white and with a little help from my mum we suggested I could photograph the station. Now I have never really looked at the station but it has lovely architecture (here I go again with the architecture) and the metal work looked stunning so a perfect opportunity for black and white.

If anyone visits this station just take your time to have a look at the building and look up its superb.

52 Week Photography Challenge- Textiles

So here is my photography challenge from last week. Again I photographed this one down Camden of all the beautiful and vibrant fabric you find there.

Such an amazing place! Got to love Camden Town

52 Week Photography Challenge- Cold

Okay just a quick little post. It has been cold here in London, UK. However it has not snowed or even shown any frost. I have been wrapped up for work in the morning with a big chunky scarf warm gloves and some very spotty and fluffy earmuffs but there has not been any physical sign of 'cold.'

So for this one I risked the cold and had ice-cream from one of my favorite little ice cream parlors in Camden Town, Chin Chin Labs. I will be posting a review later on today which I will leave a link to. So here is my representation of 'cold' with a little help of the effects on my phone.

This was a beetroot and Saffron ice cream and it was AMAZING! More to come about this later on in the blog.

52 week Photography Challenge- Architecture

Well so much for trying to post all my images on Friday last week! To be honest it has been a little bit of struggle to decided what to photograph for the 1st week and 3rd week but this category I found really easy.
Living in London there is a wide range of architectural history. From the houses of Parliament to Buckingham palace. But when you walking along a busy well known street like High Street Kensington and you look up above all the shops you can see a wide range of architecture from historical to modern. This photograph I took on my phone was on my way to work in the morning. I love how the light is captured and the black and white gives it a eery tone.

I have done similar architectural photography in the past and I must admit I enjoyed it and the results came out brilliantly. Maybe this could be a little side project to look above the shops of London and explore the architectural history of the city. Some of architecture work can be seen on my website just click on the link below.

Lifes Captured Moments- Architecture

I hope to fulfil my other weekly challenges by the end of the week.

52 week photo challenge

I have decided to take up the 52 week photo challenge to keep my photography ideas flowing.  I would have done the daily but I just think there would not be enough time in the day for me to be doing this. I have already missed 2 weeks so I will try and do a catch up along with the next photo challenge. I will be, the  majority of the time,  be using my phone but it does have good quality camera.

I have looked over a couple of different challenges particularly through pinterest and came across this one that I believe I am able to do even if it does say 2012 themes we can imagine it is for this year.

If I remember I will post every Friday my photo for each challenge. This friday there will be 3 on the blog as I want to try and catch up. Have fun following my photos of the challenge and if you like join in and leave a link in the comments to your photos.