Day 40 alt - Watching

My new Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro arrived today and I wanted to see just how close it can get.

The answer is pretty darn close!!

I saw some macros of peoples eyes lately on another stream and they looked amazing. So I tried one. It's not perfect..and I'll definitely be trying it again and trying to get the lighting and shadows right :-)

2lbs :-)

Yep. I went for my weigh in tonight at my local Ww and I'd lost 2lbs. Pretty happy with that, especially since I did zero exercise last week and just cut back on my food.

So that's 1 bag of sugar down, 21 to go ;-)

Time to start walking though :-)


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Nervous!!

Tonight is my first weigh in with Weightwatchers. Well..my first since my initial join up. I've been really good this week..sticking to my points and trying to be sensible with portions. It's not easy as I'm used to just serving myself BIG portions.

What can I say..I LOVE food!!

So gone are the buckets of rice...chinese takeaways..Indian takeaways...creamy home made dishes...butter...choccy biscuits...and all the other tools of satan..hehe!!

In are Ryvita..tomatoes..fruit..tomatoes..low fat mayo..tomatoes..teeny portions of rice and pasta..tomatoes...zero point soup...tomatoes....oh and did I mention tomatoes?

Anyway, tonight is the tale of the tape. I'd be lying if I said I wont be disappointed if there's no change, or heavens forbid, I've gained weight. I'd be hoping to have lost at least a couple of pounds. Although the lack of any real exercise in the last week has me worried slightly.

But we'll see.

On the good front....my new Tamron 90mm DI F2.8 Macro lens arrived today, so I can't wait to get home and get my hands on it.

The things that make me happy huh? ;-)

17 stone 13 and a half pounds!!!

First day doing the weightwatchers thing. Not too bad. Survived it and didn't try to eat anyone's babies. Luckily I like vegetables and fruits and pulses. Looks like I might be eating a lot of them in the foreseeable future.

My favourite alternative snacks of the day are Sugar Snaps and Picked Gherkins... Both of which are zero points. So I can eat all I want of them.

So when I weighed in last night I was 17 stone 13 and a half pounds!! I take that to be 18 stone then ;-) that's an awful weight and the heaviest I have ever been. According to the Ww booklet my ideal weight is just over 13 stone, but I think that is a little extreme. I haven't been that weight since I was a teenager, except for one brief period in my thirties when I was into weights and going to a gym 5 times a week. Everyone said I was too skinny then.

No, I'll be happy if I can get down under 15 stone. It's a big ask, but after looking at some video footage of myself recently I'm determined to give it a shot.

After all, I have nothing to lose but my belly ;-)

Day 33 - Inspiration

I love to read books! I love to hold them..flick through them...delve deeper into their pages..I love the new out of the wrapper smell or the old musky schoolbook smell...I love to slide under the covers at night with a good book and lose myself in it....get lost in a good book while stuck on a train..bus...waiting room...

I love all kinds of book...factual...historical..novel...textual. ..graphical...it matters not. I love to spend hours in a bookstore and get lost amongst it's shelves..fingers lightly brushing over the spines of books...or taking one from the shelf and seeing what delights it's pages may hold.

and I love to buy books on whatever subject interests me at any time. I love my collection of Photography books...they are a constant source of inspiration...when I leaf through the pages of a book on some of my favourite photographers I can only hope that someday I might get even close to the artistic and technical skills that these heroes of mine have and still are achieving.

In the meantime I'll keep reading...sharing in their brilliance along with millions of other people around the world.

and any time I need a little more inspiration I can just reach up to that shelf and take another little slice :-)


Leftover gift ribbon. Waiting for next Christmas maybe?



Sometimes I just like to hide behind the camera...It's a kind of safe place to be :-)

Okay..so I'm cheating doing this...

But I really can't face uploading all the 365 pics I've posted since my last Blog entry.

They are out there on Flickr and Facebook if anyone really wants to see them and read the little monologues I try to add to each with one. Besides....seeing as how I only have 4 followers on this so far, I don't think anyone's going to notice. Apologies to Yvonne, Sharon, Lilly and Fionnuala though if you were waiting patiently for them..;-)





So that's my first Month of 365 Photos...and I've had a great time putting them together. It really has made me take my camera with me everywhere. I've mentioned before that I am lazy and ill disciplined when it comes to my hobbies (with most things as a matter of fact) and then I get mad fits of energy where I want to do stuff.

That's all very well, but it doesn't really help with projects like this, that need to be consistent and require daily attention. So it's been great for that.

Also I'm enjoying the feedback I'm getting from people, and a lot of people seem to genuinely enjoy the pics and look forward to them each day. It all helps motivate me to keep at it.

When I look at the January set now, it seems like sooo long ago that I stood in that snowy park in Hartstown. The gap between that and the final shot at the Dublin Musical Societies Concert for Haiti event in the Burlington just seems immense.

But it was only a month.

This is a good thing I'm thinking. It's a bit akin to the character in the novel Catch 22 who reckons that if he does absolutely nothing everyday and spends his time in a constant state of boredom...that life will be longer...or at least seem that way!

Except in this case, I'm enjoying it..and it's making time slow down.

Woo Hoo!! Eternal life is in a camera lens ;-)


Day 32 - Vanity

So that's my first pic of February. My mini project this week is to photograph common everyday objects in as interesting a way as possible. I love the bottle for my favourite Cologne "Le Male" and thought it would make a nice subject for my first shot of the new Month.

I hope you agree.