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Friday, 29 April 2011

April Showers

Posted by George The Lad at 13:34

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I'm Jan and live in Telford, Shropshire with my long suffering husband Howard a twenty year old son and a Welsh Terrier called George, who of course has his own blog.

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I have always enjoyed taking photos, and a digital camera makes it much cheaper than the old film. A couple of things have happened in the last two years that have made me want to take this up as a hobby, and not just the odd photo shoot. 18 months ago I was very lucky to get a job which I love, on my first day I was told that one of my jobs would be to look after the camera’s and take photo’s when needed. “There’s the instruction book so have a practise, you’ll soon pick it up”, they said.

I hasten to add these were SLR cameras, having never picked one up in my life they seemed heavy, and reading the instruction book just went over my head. The auto setting was very good, and got me though the next 9 months! It was July time 2009 when my friend sent me a thank you card with a photo on the front that she had taken. She has always taken nice photos, and this was a close up of a flower. It was the week before we were to go on holiday, so armed with my point and shoot, and with some enthusiasm, I went about taking photo’s which are the first one’s on the blog, I was quite pleased with the results, and on returning to work, I started learning how to use the SLR’s

Where I work they like you to broaden you mind and do courses. It just so happened that there was a City in Guilds Level 1 in Photo Image Capture and Digital Image Manipulation that I could go on. It came as quite a shock when I was graded with a distinction on both parts. So I sort of know how to take photo’s on manual. Its a long learning curve and by me having this blog hopefully you will see my photo's improve.

I find it a very personal thing taking photos. What one person likes another may just pass it by. So this blog has pictures on it that I have taken and for one reason or another enjoy looking at.

I have another blog about our Welsh Terrier “George” and it became apparent that I needed more than a point and shoot to get the best photos. My next camera was a Panasonic FZ38 a great small super zoom, which most of the photos on George’s blog have been taken with, until the arrival of my new Camera, a Canon EOS Rebel XSI It’s an America import, and in the UK it’s a 450D. I love this Camera. That’s probably because it’s the same as the ones at work, so it was easy to pick up and start using without looking at the manual. I don’t often manipulate photos but to followers of George’s Blog I have to own up and say George is anyways on a lead, it just goes to show how photo’s can be changed.

Going back over the files, I've noticed that since doing George's Blog I have hardly taken any photo's of the places we have been, they all have George on!

That’s such a missed opportunity another reason for this album, to help me focus on things around me not just on him, and get out by myself.

Because I am sharing blog space with George and he is the main blog, it comes up posted by George the Lad

Thanks George love you loads xxx

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