Oh..The Gallery! Haven’t done this for a while, but then I haven’t come up for air for a while either. Tara’s theme this week is Mother Nature. I was a bit stumped as about 90% of my photos fall in to this category, but then I remembered this shot. I took it last Spring, along with many others, in a wonderful poppy field. I particularly love this one, although I never shared it for reasons I can’t remember.
I love the blurry Diggy and Bertie pottering along in the background. You can’t really see it but Bertie is hauling a couple of massive sugar beet along with him, left over from the previous year’s crop. Strange child…
Mother nature…flowers, greenery, megaboys…the holy trinity. x
I’m really living dangerously with this year’s 365. I took ONE photo today. Just one, not the usual 200 or so ;-)
So this is what I have. A beautiful siamese cat paying his respects at the local war memorial. I liked the lines, and squares and octogans, the constrast of the red poppies against the black granite. And the presence of one very incongruous cat who, not seen alas, was wearing a very handsome red collar.
Alternative caption for this shot ‘Memories’…from the musical Cats…geddit?
Poppies…a weed of such contrasts….from blousy splendour to architectural in a few short weeks. It’s hard not to be wowed by the sea of red when they’re in full bloom, but I have a secret passion for them when they’re like this. Taken with the Lensbaby Composer at f4. Love the creamy bokeh of the Lensbaby. Love the Lensbaby fullstop.
All red hat and no knickers poppies, taken 3 weeks ago. Such a change!
Oh how I laughed. For the last 10 days or so I’ve been itching to get a poppy field shot. The field I snapped last year is covered in white daisies this year, but another field just a short drive away was absolutely magnificent. Probably the biggest poppy field I’ve ever seen and in a gorgeous position for an evening shoot. But I couldn’t get near enough to it without trespassing, and there was nowhere easy to park. I’d just about given up on it when I happened to meet the landowner at a party and asked permission to shoot. By the time I got there to shoot the poppies had, inevitably, gone way past their best. Weep.
Yesterday MrSpud spotted ‘something orangey red’ about 3 fields away from the house. Quick trip down the fields ET VOILA! A wonderful, wonderful poppy field….right on the doorstep. And it’s absolutely at its best right now. My photographic happiness is complete.
I bribed the boys to sit still for a photoshoot. They weren’t that keen at first…
Threats were added to the bribes…
Once they were off there was no stopping them…
I can’t imagine there are many years left of them being so unselfconsciously loving towards each other. So, for now, I’ll let my heart melt a little bit each time they kiss and cuddle each other. And take a million photos and a make a million memories. xxx
Oh I had such a giggle at a comment from Deb a few days back, when I posted a video of Bertie on his go-kart. “Nice to hear your voice”, she said. Um, Deb….that was MR SPUD not me!! This is me talking. I sound like the Queen. I was teased mercilessly about my cut glass accent at various Blog Camps…
Enjoy! Oh, those ‘buckets’? I bought them to stash yarn in. They lasted about 10 seconds before those Megaboys appropriated them for Boys Chores.
There are very, very few benefits to having to get up early every single day of your life once you have children. Admittedly I don’t have to get up ‘that’ early since I make MrSpud get up with them if they wake before the internationally approved Get Up Time of 7am. I totally resigned from getting up with children once I stopped breast feeding them on the basis that I’d done back to back pregnancy, breast feeding, breast feeding AND pregnancy, breast feeding for about 3.5 years. I’ve done my time.
Anyway, I found this wonderful poppy field up the road from our house last week and it’s been niggling at me ever since. It’s screaming to be photographed…snap me..snap me….SNAP ME!!!
But the weather and the light have been rubbish, and I was getting wibbly that the moment of the poppy field glory would pass before I could get up there.
So Bertie got up at 6am today and got in to bed with us. Out of the corner of my eye I could see sunshine peeping around the blind, so I dragged myself out of bed and up to the poppy field. Huzzah! The poppies were still there, but very battered by heavy rain.
I didn’t really get the shots I wanted, but then it’s pretty much always like that. But this is quite nice. Shot with a Nikon D70, Tokina 11-16mm f2.8 AT-X for the people who care. At f22, 15mm.
