366 #23
We're ever so close to the halfway mark, reviewing week 23 and looking forward to the moments that week 24 will bring.
The Facebook 366 group is over here if you'd like to join our little support community.
Time to link up:
- Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
- Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
- If you can spare five minutes to comment on just a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
366 #22
Welcome to the best photos from week 22 of Project 366. We're all doing so well, a couple more weeks and we're halfway through the project.
Last week I had a fabulous competition for you to win an acrylic photo block (worth £29.99) from Busy Pictures and all the entries were fantastic. The winner is Domestic Goddesque with this photograph:
Congratulations, I will be in touch with you regarding your prize!
The Facebook 366 group is over here if you'd like to join our little support community.
Time to link up:
- Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
- Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
- If you can spare five minutes to comment on just a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
Instagram: #VictorianDecay
Earlier this year I discovered the world of Instagram, but it wasn't until I came across other photo-editing apps that I really found my feet with it. The filters and borders on Instagram are very limiting I think, plus it doesn't tend to save a copy to your camera reel. Both of these factors meant that I started using Camera+ more often than not for my IG uploads.
About three weeks ago, I saw Instagram's weekly blog entry and it highlighted the work of an American photographer that takes photographs of derelict buildings in his home of St. Louis, Missouri. I was really intrigued by them and it reminded me of the amazing houses in my own town in south Wales. Much of the area where I live, specifically my town, was built between 1870-1890 with the boom of the coal industry in the Valleys. The houses, which would have been owned by the mine-owners, are grandeur and almost like estates with coach houses and folly-style Summer houses at the bottom of their garden.
However, a small proportion of these stunning examples of Victorian architecture have been allowed to fall into a terrible state of disrepair over the past forty years. Some (like the three-storey redbrick hotel on the seafront or the four storey detached house with turrets and a roof garden) were bought by an unscrupulous 'businessman' for redevelopment. When permission wasn't granted, they had mysterious fires or internal supporting walls were demolished until they were ordered to be pulled down. Other buildings, through the sheer weight of financial upkeep have become derelict and abandoned.
Luckily in the last three-five years there has been considerable interest in the remaining treasures, resulting in massive renovation and restoration. It meant it was a bit difficult to find any of them to photograph when I went on a hunt, but I did manage to snap some. I wish I'd thought of this three months ago and I would have been able to photograph the beautiful single-storey church school (which I'd had my eye on for when I won the Lottery) before it was ripped down.
I've started posting these photos onto Instagram using the hashtag #VictorianDecay, but not everyone (including my husband) has access to the network. Here they are:
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I've been shortlisted for the MAD Blog Awards in the Photography category. If you like these photos, I'd love it if you could vote for me please? Voting closes on 6th June. Thank you
366 #21
Well! Hasn't it been a beautiful week?
It's meant that I've had a much better run of photos and have enjoyed getting out there with The Boy and enjoying the world in which we live. For the most part that means our theme of 'Exploring Nature' has been stuck with, with the exception of Friday's shoddy last-minute snap for the sake of of it. Sunshine makes photography so much easier!
I mentioned last week that I have a competition for you, and it's coming at the perfect time for those of you who might be looking for something different for a Father's Day present (although not limited to that occasion at all). I know that there's only so many photo mugs you can buy them, and so this idea of an acrylic block from Busy Pictures is brilliant. More contemporary and funky-looking than a standard photo in a frame, this weighty block would be perfect on Daddy's desk, but just as much as on Granny's mantelpiece, or a kitchen windowsill.
"Freestanding they are weighty enough to not fall over and luminous showing your favourite photo reflecting through the acrylic with depth and shine. Complete with our neat compact presentation box this is a gift that will bring happiness and smiles."
Busy Pictures are offering the entrants of this week's 366 linky the opportunity to win a 6"x4" acrylic block worth £29.99. In order to be in with a chance of winning, you'll need to enter the 366 linky as normal and fill in the Rafflecopter form which is below the photo linky! (It will require commenting, a tweet and a Facebook 'like') The image submitted into the linky does not need to be the image used in your prize.
Good luck!
MAD About Photography
Thank you!
I can't really begin to tell you what it means to be a finalist in the MAD Blog Awards, but it's a hell of a lot. I've always loved taking photos, even when I was a child and my mum and dad bought me my first 'film' camera. I've progressed now onto my dSLR, my phone and an iPad but regardless of the means, for me it is about the composition and the content.
To have so many people nominate and then vote for me, means so much. I've only been blogging for a year and a half, and to make it to final five finalists from the 143 nominated is overwhelming. The support for the 366 linky is amazing, and it has grown into an amazing community of people helping and supporting each other. Thanks to them.
I'm incredibly grateful to everyone that voted for me, thank you so much. I hope that it's because of photos like this that you've nominated me:
Equally, I'm aware it could be because of this:
Or maybe this?
Either way, thank you from the bottom of my heart, it means a lot because I'm just a mum with a camera.
If you'd like to vote for me, then please click the badge below and select 'TheBoyandMe' in the photography section.
Guest-Post: Blog It For Babies
I have a guest-post for you today from a finalist in the Fresh Voices category in the Britmums Brilliance in Blogging Awards. Ruth, blogs over at DorkyMum, and wants to share with you the Save The Children: Blog It For Babies campaign.
Blog It For Babies
If you're a parent blogger, I'd say there's a very good chance that at some point in your life you've had to give some thought to giving birth. You may not have gone to NCT classes, or swotted up on every single birthing book out there, but you'll still have been aware of your choices, and made decisions based on those choices.
Do you remember the anxious excitement of writing a birth plan (even if you only wrote it as a mental list in your head)? What an overwhelming number of options we have if we're giving birth in this country. Do we want a homebirth or a hospital birth? Who will our birth partner be? Will we have a birthing pool? What if we go overdue? When will we agree to being induced? How will we get through early labour – a TENS machine? Paracetamol? (Yes, I laughed when the midwife suggested that too…). Will we use gas and air? How do we feel about epidurals? Episiotomies? Do we want the cord clamped? What happens if we have a caesarean?
Crikey. What a lot to think about. There are so many choices.
No wonder we all feel a bit stressed and overwhelmed if we're due to give birth. No wonder we set such high expectations for ourselves in terms of having the 'perfect' birth, and no wonder that so many of us then have such mixed emotions if things don't go to plan.
But let's look at it another way. How lucky we are to have those choices available to us, and to be in a position to make informed decisions. How lucky we are to live somewhere where we know that even if our birth plan goes out of the window, we are very likely to end the process with a healthy baby, delivered in a clean and safe environment. How lucky we are to know that if our babies are born needing any kind of medical attention, there will be qualified doctors on hand to provide it.
There are thousands of women in the world who do not live with that knowledge, and do not have that guarantee.
There are women in Bangladesh like Panna, who has given birth four times, but only had two of her babies survive, and women like Shipra, who has also given birth four times, but who lost three of those babies within hours or days of their birth.
Only 18% of births in Bangladesh have a trained health worker present. And 1 in 19 children in Bangladesh will not live to see their 5th Birthday, due to a lack of basic healthcare.
What is frustrating is that it doesn't have to be that way.
Save the Children already have the knowledge and experience that will allow them to help women like Panna and Shipra. Now all they need is the funding.
The Build it for Babies campaign is a £1 million appeal that will allow Save the Children to build seven life-saving clinics in the poorest parts of Bangladesh. You can find out more about the appeal on their website – there are so many ways to get involved, and every single penny counts.
You can select Build it for Babies as your charity of choice to support through BritMums For Good whilst shopping via Give As You Live.
You can also pay a visit to Save The Children's Build it for Babies virtual clinic microsite: www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Here's a few of the items you'll find on the Build it for Babies shopping list:
- £5 can buy a brick – without which there will quite simply be no health centres
- £14 can buy a set of scales for weighing babies
- £49 could buy a delivery kit, a complete set of equipment for delivering babies safely
- £150 could pay for a paramedic for a month to treat acutely ill children
- £1,000 could buy a year's supply of emergency medical kits to help mothers with difficult deliveries
- £2,500 can help build a well to provide clean water for the clinic and keep families safe from deadly diseases.
Let's get involved, and help give the women of Bangladesh the same support that we had when we were pregnant and giving birth.
Tuesday 8th May 2012 – 'Squeal!'
Look, look, that's me!
366 #18
We're entering the fifth month of the year, we're getting nearer and nearer to the halfway mark and everyone is doing so well! A few people have dropped out over the past few weeks (I blame Easter!) but it's a hard project to do. Months ago I said it would get easier once the weather improved, I am clearly to blame for the monsoon occuring in Britain at present.
Once you've linked up, it would be great if you could pop over to a few other blogs and have a look and comment on their chosen photos. The further down the linky you are, the less comments you receive. I'm trying something different this week, random ordering with the link-ups. Let me know what you think?
A few more people have joined up to Project 366's Facebook group and it's brilliant to see the community growing. They offer support to those taking part in this photography project, and give much blog love. We've made it a closed group so that not every Tom, Dick or Harry can see the content but if you'd like to join just click the 'ask to join group' button in the top right hand corner of the page.
366 #16
Here we are, well into the fourth month of project 366, sixteen weeks have flown by. Most of us have probably found our stride by now, and hopefully taking photographs that document our lives (and loves) is becoming part of our daily routine.
I'm going for a theme with my photography for my forthcoming week. We've just invested in an iPad3, and I want to explore its 5MP camera and the editing capabilities.
The Project 366 Facebook group is a fabulous community who offer support to those taking part in this photography project, and give much blog love. We've made it a closed group so that not every Tom, Dick or Harry can see the content but if you'd like to join just click the 'ask to join group' button in the top right hand corner of the page.
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