Welcome to "The Language of Flowers", a place where you'll be able to view some of the best of my photographs.
A little bit about my photography. I've always loved taking photos, ever since I was a little girl. I was given my first camera (which ran on film disks - anyone else remember those?...!) when I was about seven or eight and I've slowly moved up from there. I've not been an especially fussy photographer, or a particularly technical one. I have piles and piles of photos that have been taken on disposables, compacts, digital compacts, an SLR (sadly stolen about two years ago) and now my current camera which is half way between a digital compact and a
DSLR. (It's a Fuji
Finepix S6500
fd, for anyone interested!) Each camera's had something of a learning curve, whether it be figuring out how to point and shoot (hey, everyone starts somewhere!), learning to load film (the SLR could be a complete pig on that count) or working out how to get the best out of the settings, but the end results have been worth the effort and these days, I tend to reckon I get more "good" photos than "bad".
Of
course, that doesn't mean I don't screw up from time to time - and thank heaven for memory cards and digital cameras; no more expensive developing costs only to find that you've over exposed the whole thing............!
What this blog is for is a chance for me to start building up a portfolio of work and a chance to share my best shots with people. As the blog title might suggest, the vast majority of what I take these days is pictures of flowers - I'm lucky enough to live with a particularly green-fingered gardener and at certain times of year, you can't move for beautiful flowers, and they make far easier photo subjects than the assorted wildlife (which has a nasty
tendency to let you get your shot all lined up and then walks away...!). That's not to say I only photograph flowers *grin*
So there you go.
Welcome - and enjoy the stay :)
Photos taken 13/06/2009 at Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset Railway
Western Courier
The Devonian on her approach into Blue Anchor station
A pair of shunters (possibly nicknamed Teddy Bears - but don't hold me to that!) get passenger duty
On her approach
And preparing to steam away on to Minehead
Photos taken 24/05/09 at the Bowood House Rhododendron Walks
A rural scene? Actually no! This is my local church which stands on the corner of a busy crossroads, but if you photograph it carefully, you can avoid the steady streams of cars going by... The most interesting thing about this church (which you can just about tell from the photograph) is that it's an absolutely huge church - which makes sense from the point of view of its modern parish, except that the church was built at some point during the 19th century when there were no more than a tiny handful of cottages in the general environs...
The bluebells were just about at their best - if I'd waited until the weekend, they'd probably already be on their way out.
