Supercars

At the beginning of the year I went on a ride in TWO super cars. It was pretty awesome. It was a present from my parents for my 21st birthday buy I only got round to doing it 10 months later! Seeing as I had just taken my car back home, my mum drove me to the place which wasn't too far from Loughborough.

Now I love cars. I don't know all the technical stuff about them all, but I can appreciate the statistics and I know a good car when I see one. So when I turned up at this place and there was over £3 million worth of cars, you really have to be amazed.

The two cars that I got to drive were an Aston Martin DB9 and a Ferrari 360. My mum was my designated photographer whilst I was in the car driving, so she snapped a couple of these, and the rest were taken by myself as I ogled over them!

1. A McLaren MP4, an Audi R8 - one I have driven before, a Ferrari 458 Italia - my favourite ever car!

2. A bunch of cars

3. Me in the Aston Martin DB9

4. Setting off

5. Parked up

6 & 7. The back of a £250,000 Lamborghini

Sadly there are no photos of me in the Ferrari, but I can't blame my mum as she isn't a photographer and it was raining and getting dark!

Find Beauty Friday #23

So folks, it is my second time hosting Find Beauty Friday with Aimee from Dear Harper. Last time I did this, I was pretty hungover and really unprepared, so this time, hopefully it will be a lot better!

Aimee hosts this blog link up every Friday, and it is a fantastic way to get your photos seen and to see other people's work. It also gets you seen by many bloggers and if you all follow each then everyone gets new followers and more exposure - awesome! Go an check out Aimee's blog (clicking the link above) to see previous Find Beauty Friday posts and more exciting and interesting things!

My photo this week is from a bike ride I took, which you can read about here - Photography Cycle Ride. All of my favourite photos from that cycle ride are on that post, however I saved this one for this post as I thought it would be just perfect for a Find Beauty Friday post!

So... enjoy the link up, check each other out and give everyone a follow to help us build the community!

An InLinkz Link-up

Photography Cycle Ride

The other day I decided to go out for a bike ride with my camera. Now, having played rugby for 7 years before I came to university, then stopping and replacing it with fast food, beer and playing xbox, I was a little worried about how far I could actually cycle! Nervously I set off, wondering if I could make it to the place I had in mind, with my camera equipment in my backpack!

Surprisingly enough, I climbed the hill all the way to the place where I wanted to get to, and didn't feel too bad! So I carried on and on until I started to feel a little tired then took a country road to go and see what I could discover.

Luckily enough for me, I picked a great road to turn down, because all of these photos were taken within 50 metres of me actually turning onto the road! I also really enjoyed the cycle ride, not including some of the crazy drivers out there who give you the tiniest bit of space, and I think I am going to do more of them!

Here are the photos from the day:

1. A yellow flower

2. A garden fence

3. A cool house with a windmill attached to it!

4. A bush in the garden of the house

5. A field

6.  A spiky bush

There is another flower picture but it is going to be posted on Friday, so keep an eye out for it!

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Macro at the Park

As I said before in my post 'Playing with a new lens' I got a new lens for my birthday, and so I have been out an about trying to capture new things I couldn't capture before. I bought the lens with it in mind that I would be able to get even closer Macro photos, and in some ways, this is the case, however the minimum distance you can stand from the subject is a metre with this lens, so it gives a different effect than I expected, but it is a really nice surprise. Obviously the zoom is a lot further, however the focal distances etc are all different and so it takes different picture to what I have taken before.

Anyway I walked down to the park as it has always had some bright colours etc, and attempted to capture some macro shots to give it a try out, here are the results:

1. The fence

2. Swing chains

3. A spring

4. A swing chain

5. Tangled up chain

Okay so 3 out of 5 are the chains of swings, but they were really interesting, honest!!

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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