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I miss summer, even though it doesn't look that summery in this picture I still do :)

Snowflake.

Pretty. Shame snowflakes now remind me of design theory..

Snowy Britain

Sort of wondering if I will make it back to Leeds tomorrow...?

New York.

Me and the boyf have just booked our trip to New York! The new year is getting off to a good start: have been productive and have actually done something we have talked about for ages and I have made a start on one of my new year resolutions- to travel to at least 3 new places :) Heading back to Leeds at the end of this week and really looking forward to it. Although not to exams and a cold house, and while I love being home I haven't had the space or time to do anything creative so it will be good to get back into things when I am back there....... Also need to use the library real bad (makes a change)....

Superheroes

Came across these photos on fellow students blog (http://laurenelizabethwells.blogspot.com/- Have a look!) they are orginally from stylefrizz.com and you can see better quality images there if you fancy....
I don't really know much about fashion just think they are super (haha pun yeah?) images, love the concept along with the colours and poses.

Codladh sámh Dan

Okay just a quick post before I get on with some work... Just thought I would post some family photos that I have on my computer here with me at uni. This post is mainly prompted by the fact that I have spent the last day or so in Liverpool at a family funeral. And basically at the after gathering thing my second cousin (?) had set up loads of photos of his dad (my grandpas brother) taken throughout his life and I was just thinking how much I love looking at all those old photos.

For one it is interesting seeing how my grandparents and great uncles looked when they were my age, having just moved over from Ireland to work. Secondly I love the quality and feel the old photos have, from the folds and creases to the faded colours and sepia tones. They just give me a warm feeling hahah :)

I did touch on this theme in some uni work last year but never really developed it further. One thought I had while working on it was the fact that those 3 photos above probably mean nothing to you since you won't know the people in them, but to me they are a link to my past and depict some of the most important people in my life and remind me of some of my happiest memories . It would be the same for me looking at your family photos, it would be nice to see them but they don't really mean that much to me. This point was raised again today when I found it much more interesting looking at the photos with my grandma. Mainly because she knew who most the people were and why and when the photos where taken, solving some mysteries in the process. Maybe it's the back story that I am really interested in. I have always said the first thing I would rescue in a fire would be the big box we keep all our family photos in, well maybe the cats first because they would be miffed if they got their tails singed...

I am not really sure what I am trying to say with this blog I could go on and on forever about photography and these photos and my family and memories so I will leave it there because geometric patterns are beckoning sigh...

p.s. I could also write a massive post about how I feel so very out of place in a church, bad times!

Bookshelf spectrum

NEW LIFE AMBITION: To own a colour spectrum library..... *sighh* one day.

Up Up Away

I was just thinking about how I could promote this blog and having just seen the film Up, I was thinking that it would be really cool to set loads of balloons free with a label on the bottom with a link to this blog. You know like they used to do at school summer fairs and the person whose balloon got the furthest won something... However I have now come to the conclusion that it would be expensive and apparently those balloon setting free sessions are pretty bad for the environment, you know the story, the plankton eat the plastic and die, then the fish eat the plankton and die, then the sea gulls eat the fish and die ect. Maybe I could use doves instead or pigeons...?

The above image is something I found on flickr again (I am really not sure about copywrite stuff these days) and I just really liked it, I love the feel and look of Polaroids shame they have stopped making the film. I hope the impossible project becomes possible, it would be rather sad to say bye to Polaroid forever.

I wonder if I could do some message in a bottle type thing, although I don't really live near the sea right now. How disappionted would you be if you found a bottle washed up with a message in it that was just a link to this blog haha. Maybe I should start some sort of guerilla campaign and fill the library books with notes that have links to here written on them. At least that way I could target people who may be interested by putting them in certain books. That may be an idea actually....

Pinhole

Pinhole photography (image above found on flickr) need to find somewhere that sells photo paper since I have run out...

I LIKE DINOSAURS. That is all :)