Playing with my new lens

On Monday it was my birthday! Yay! This obviously means I am a year older now, but it also meant that I got presents! Woooo! I have been wanting a new lens for so long now as my interest in photography has been growing, so finally this birthday I got one! I did know I was going to get it though as I bought it myself from Ebay for less than 50% of the original price, and it is in mint condition! I love a bargain!

The lens that I got was a 45-200mm telephoto zoom lens, so it is perfect for the close ups that I love doing, without having to get extremely close to the subject, like I used to have to do with my 14-42mm lens.

It is also great for wildlife shots as you don't scare them trying to get close to them, so when I get the chance to go out and about in the woods this summer, hopefully I can get some great snaps.

It's such a great present though as it will get so much use! Thanks parents! Alongside this I also got a camera backpack to hold all of my equipment from them. Sadly this was too small for me but another one is already on its way! This also comes with a tripod holder on the outside, so I am in the process of buying one of those too, to go along side my Gorilla pod.

Keep an eye out for my soon-to-be updated 'Camera' page when it all arrives to see my new stash!

Here are the first photos I took on my new lens, in a field across the road from me:

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Summer Holiday : Part III

The final post about my summer holiday. Make sure you read Part I and Part II first!

Day 5

Time to leave! We had until around 4 to chill by the pool, and luckily for us it was an absolute scorcher of a day! So we spent all day sunbathing and trying to get that all important tan before we left. When 4 a rrived we had a two hour coach journey with some ridiculously drunk OAPs, and then we got our flight!
Once we landed we got our bags back and off we went to go pick up the car. At around midnight we set off back home hobbling all the way home on our spare tyre. Urgh. Finally, absolutely exhausted, we got back home and straight into bed and to sleep!

Overall it probably wasn't the best holiday, and by that I mean that it wasn't great at all, but it was still our first holiday together and it just means the next one can only be better, fingers crossed!


Here are some of the pictures I didn't put on the other two posts but I quite liked.

More Favourite Pictures

This is a pool that was in the Botanical Gardens and I loved the reflection in it!

 This is the sea from on top of a cliff. It was so clear!

Even though this is out of focus I actually really like that about it and you can just make out the smiles still on our faces.

This is another pool that was in the botanical gardens.

 This was a little house that was covered in ivy. The colours were really great and it was really quite quaint.

And that my friends is the summary of my summer holiday! Now I just have to wait until the next one!

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Summer Holiday : Part II

Here is the continuation of my summer holiday posts, day 3 and 4! Read Part I first!
 

Day 3

Rain. Rain. Rain. It sucked. There were even thunderstorms! Dark cloud allllll day so we had no sunbathing, no swimming, no beach time or anything. We did however play a billion games of 'Go Fish', our holiday favourite! We are now experts at that!

Day 4

Finally a nice day. So off to the Botanical Gardens we go! With both of us loving photography it really was an ideal place for us to go, and we got to shoot things we never would get to do back home. The colours and the shapes of the plants and flowers were incredible! We spent a couple of hours there just wandering round, taking photos of everything. Here are some of my favourite photos from the day...

Stay tuned for day 5!

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The garden strikes again!

As I have said on here before, when I'm bored I go into my back garden to find things to shoot. Well, that was before I came back to uni and my back garden now is just a rectangle of overgrown grass. Either way, these are some of the photos that I took when it was sunnier, which in England isn't very often! Obviously they are all close ups too, as you know these are what I really love.

The first one is of some berries hanging from a tree. I love the way that the sunlight just kisses some of the berries giving a real colour contrast on the berries. Plus I love the orange on the green background.

Secondly, we have a simple holly bush, but with the two tone leaves and the quirky shapes they take really good pictures.

Third is a butterfly on one of the plant's flowers. I spent a long time chasing this little fella around my garden trying to get a good picture. He flew off two or three times and each time I though he was gone for good. So each time he returned I dropped everything I was doing and tip-toed over to try get a photo. Finally on my last attempt I managed to get some snaps of him! luckily he wasn't flying off when the shutter went so there wasn't any blur! woo!

Fourth is just a simple little flower, but the sun was shining on it so it really caught my attention.

Finally we have a little water fountain in the back garden. And when I say little, it is extremely small. But I spent a few hours digging the hole for a large dustbin to sit below it, so I thought it deserved a photo! Plus there is always something nice about the sound of water, so why not a photo?

Have you got any snaps from your back garden?

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