366 #8

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I've got some exciting news on the #Project366 front! I've managed to negotiate three competitions for you fabulous photographers for the forthcoming months, from three very kind online photography shops. The first one starts next weekend and is courtesy of BonusPrint. Make sure you take advantage of the turn in the weather and get some really creative shots for you to select your favourite from because next week will see three winners chosen from the linky! I'll blog more about it in the week so you might want to subscribe so you don't miss the post.

Anyone taking part is welcome to join the Project 366 Facebook group. The fabulous community building up there 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.

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on just a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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The Gallery: Landscapes

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And so travelling Tara has set us the challenge of showing off our landscapes this week. Proper photography required.

This week's theme is: Landscapes.

Go and take a photo of one that inspires you, dig one out of your archives or get creative. Trees (ahem), sea shores, beach, skyline, fields, roof tops, pylons, mountains, snow whatever. Let's show what a wonderful and diverse place the world is.

Mr. TheBoyandMe and I have travelled to some rather amazing places and for that we've been lucky. I can't handle a flight longer than eight hours so I'm not talking anywhere tropical, but there are some amazing treasures around the world and we have been fortunate to experience some of these, before The Boy was born.

San Francisco Salt Ponds

The Faraglioni Rocks

Grand Canyon

Arabian Desert

California coastline

Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building

But still one of my favourites is the one I call home:

Cardiff Bay

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366 #7

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Week seven already?! Wow! And today is day 50 of the project; a fantastic round number, halfway to hundred. If you've got this far, give yourself a deserved pat on the back, I reckon you'll make it the whole way. And do you know why it's worthwhile? Because at the end of the year, you can make yourself one of these:

Delivered this week, my 365 photobook (my Christmas present from Mr. TheBoyandMe)

Anyone taking part is welcome to join the Project 366 Facebook group. The fabulous community building up there 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.

  1. Choose your favourite photo from the past week and link it up below.
  2. Please add the badge to your linked-up post so that other people know how to find all the other fabulous entries.
  3. If you can spare five minutes to comment on just a few other entries I know they'd appreciate it!
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The World Around Us

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The day started looking like this when I opened The Boy's curtains…

… which was just as well as I had to take the car to the garage and then walk home again, and I could really do with it not raining.

In the end, I decided to take him on the train into Cardiff instead of walking home. He's only been on the train once before, and loved it so much that I thought we'd nip in and kill a few hours. I had the foresight to put a couple of Pizza Express/Tesco Clubcard vouchers in my purse a few days ago, just in case!

The Boy adored going in on the train, but I had forgotten how short a journey it is in; six minutes and we were there! We walked over to my hairdresser's salon so I could book an appointment for Saturday for my normal cut and blow dry, but I also begged him to rectify the horrendous balls up my mother made a few months ago with highlights. If you saw me at the Tots100 Christmas Party then you'll know what I mean. I've never had highlights done professionally before; I'm looking forward to it! He'll also be cutting The Boy's hair for me as I can't find a barber or children's hairdresser who can cope with it yet.

After a quick stroll through Cardiff shopping centre, we had lunch in Pizza Express and then sauntered down St. Mary's Street to the train station. And this is when I realised what a vibrant and interesting street it is for photo-taking. So out came the iPod and Instagram and I got snapping.

What I found most interesting on our walk around, was the amount of questions that The Boy was asking about his environment and it made me realise how little he knows of the world, and how often he gets bundled into the car and driven somewhere. If Spring is actually on its way now, we need to get out more!