A little bit cold and a snowy garden

This weekend I felt like taking lots of pictures. So on Saturday I took my camera out with me and when I went to use it the battery was flat. I had stupidly forgotten to change it after taking the pictures of the tulips on the previous post. Talk about annoyed. Don't you hate it when that happens.

Sunday Jim and I did some more to the house and I had a yearning/urge/crazy idea to do some gardening. So there I was in the snow cutting down overgrown rambling roses and other such things. It was very therapeutic albeit cold. Not sure if the thermometer in the garden was right or not but it looked so pretty there that I had to take a picture using my phone.

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and that the week ahead is full of love and fun!

Take care

Helen xx

Memories....

Over the weekend I had a busy time sorting through my house, clearing out lots of old stuff to make way for exciting new chapters in my life.

And when I went through boxes and shelves I found my very first 35mm camera....my old Miranda camera. Oh what memories.

My dad was a photographer in his day and right up to his death he had a camera on his table. He was never without it. And when I was a teenager he gave me this camera to use, along with another lens and a flash. There I was, all set on the road to photography at such a young age.

I didn’t understand alot of the buttons and settings, most of the pictures were more by luck than judgement, but still, there I was taking pictures with a proper camera.

On looking at it yesterday it was great to feel it again, hear that wonderful clunk as I pressed the shutter release and by instinct move the film on to the next frame using the lever. Ooh how I wanted to use it there and then.

Maybe I will get some film and have a go......and then wait excitedly for the pictures as I send it off to be developed....something that we are not used to doing now we are in the digital age.

Memories....gotta love them.....