Nature through the eyes of my camera

 I am going to work with a group of like minded photographers on the theme of 'Connection'. Each of us will produce a piece of work about our connection to Suffolk. This will include eight photographs and a written piece about our subject. Our group will be led by Gill Moon, a professional photographer and publisher. Each participant was chosen from a number of photographers who had shown an interest in the project. Our first meeting was a zoom session where we were all introduced to each other and Gill explained her thought process about a topic on Connections. We all chipped in with our ideas and another meeting was made for February when we would meet in Woodbridge and talk through our own ideas for the project. My connection to Suffolk was going to be about insects and if there was a place for them in todays society. My first idea was to photograph insect/insects with an iconic building in the background such as the Orwell Bridge or Felixstowe docks.  I did a rekey of plac...

Having finished my Bronze Voyage award I wasn't sure if I would continue with the silver award. After a few months break, at the start of 2025 I decided I would attempt the next award. I knew I would need to take more time than I did with my bronze and go at a slower pace. Having decided what I could do for each section I made a start. Service I decided that my service would be split into two sections. Both would be with service to the community in mind. My first piece of work was with the Layham Local History Group where I photographed over 60 images of local artifacts that had been found in the local area by local detectorists. The items ranged from coins, brooches, horse buckles, bells to musket shot and cutlery. All the items were photographed, downloaded onto the computer, enlarged and tidied up. These were then printed and handed over to the history society who used them in an exhibition before saving them to the Layham history archives. The second piece of service will be he...

  Day 1 Arriving at Morwenstow Having travelled some of the way in pouring rain, it had stopped by 10.00am and it was then a bright, windy day. We had a spacious bungalow with lovely views. Once we had unpacked and had a coffee we drove to Bude, which was only a few miles away to pick up a few groceries, then went down to the beach. There was a junior surfing competition going on. We watched for a while before walking along the beach. There were some very interesting rock formations.   Further along the beach there was an open air swimming pool which had been carved in amongst the rocks. We walked along part of the coastal path then descended onto Middle beach where the rock formations were more prominent.  We headed back the way we had come from and stopped at the 'Life's a Beach' for lunch. We spent the rest of the day back at our holiday bungalow. Day 2 Marsland Cliffs No rush today. We are going to walk to Marsland Bay having decided it was too far to walk to Welco...

 Tuesday 1st October A blog is a regular updated web page usually run by an individual or a small group, that is informal. I went through numerous sites on the internet, and Google Blogger seemed the most simplest to use. I went into Google Blog and purchased an address for my site, www.roseysnatureandinterests.co.uk (£12 per year) and named my site Nature through the Eyes of my Camera. For my Voyage Award Blog I have made an entry each time I have completed part of a challenge. I have illustrated some of my work with photos, particularly the Explore my World section. Each one of these entries has taken anything between 1 - 2 hours to publish depending on how far I walked and how many photos I took. Each photo had to be downloaded from the camera, changed from a NEF file to a JPEG file and edited. These were then added to the blog. How to add a Blogger Index Go to Google Drive on line and open a new blank Google document. Name it Index and then start adding new entries. (keep this ...

 24th March - 31st October I am the Booking Secretary at the village hall and the time taken to do this roll is not included for my Bronze Voyage Award. I have taken on extra voluntary work at the village hall this year as there is no cleaner or gardener. I have been to the hall on three occasions to give the hall a thorough clean. Besides this I wipe down the kitchen surfaces and wash the floor, sweep the hall and check and clean the toilets on a regular basis. At the end of October a group of committee members came along to give all the windows, inside and out a clean, and a thorough clean of the complete building including the cupboards and all the tables.  Grass cutting and gardening My husband and I have mowed the grass and  trimmed the edges 4 times this season. I have tended the garden. We have swept all paved areas and weeded round the front of the building. Book Sale The book sale is one of the biggest fund raising events of the year and it requires a lot of sett...

Friday 22nd March - Braille Braille was create by a French man, Louis Braille. He lost his sight as a child and later developed a code for the French alphabet. Braille is a system of touch reading and writing for visually impaired people. Raised dots represent the letters of the alphabet, numbers, punctuation marks, special symbols etc. Braille consists of a set of six raised dots. The number and arrangement of the dots used distinguishes one character from another. Uncontracted Braille (grade I) - is the study of basic dot combinations for the letters of the alphabet, the main punctuation signs and the numbering system. Contracted Braille (grade II) - uses the same letters, punctuation and numbers as uncontracted braille but adds a series of special signs to represent common words or groups of letters. There are 187 contractions in Braille 2 Contracted Braille is used as it requires less space. Books, magazines and other information use it as it produces less bulky books and magazines...

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