Week No. 12 - Saturday, 26th March 2011

This week's theme is 'From the Jewellery Box'. Both girls (and myself) are massive Twilight Saga fans and here is Hope's Eclipse Jewellery Box with her favourite Hope necklace. It was tricky to use natural light and position the box just so that the reflection from the window didn't show in the mirror and the necklace. I've darkened the picture quite a lot because the velvet in the box looked grey rather than black, I toyed with turning it black and white but I like the browns around Bella too much.

Week No. 11 - Saturday, 19th March 2011

"Lights and Darks"

This one is a real blast from the past! Last Thursday Carl and I went, with some friends, to see The Levellers (remember them?) who were supported by the Wonderstuff. If you followed my 365 blog last year you will remember that we saw the Wonderstuff at the Bearded Theory festival in Derbyshire. They are definitely one of my favourite bands and Thursday's performance was the best I have ever seen them. It did make me feel abit old though as the band got together 25 years ago!! After the Wonderstuff I thought the Levellers would have an hard act to follow but they were just as great. Thoroughly enjoyed it and thought this picture of Jeremy Cunningham on bass, with the longest dreadlocks I have ever seen,of the Levellers was a good Lights and Darks picture. I had to take it on Carl's phone as I didn't take my camera. All together now "THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY OF LIFE....................."

Week No. 10 - Saturday, 12th March 2011

This week's theme is childhood toys and whilst I have a few of my old toys knocking around, the most loved and used is this Wendy House. Obviously, that is me in the large photo (thanks Mum for scanning and emailing it), then there's one of the girls in it which is probably one of my favourite photos of them of all time. I love Kirsten's face peering through the window aka Jack Nicholson in The Shining! Yesterday morning I quickly put the Wendy House up and Kirsten got in for an up to date snap. How time flies eh?

Week No. 9 - Saturday, 5th February 2011

I've struggled with this week's theme of 'Express Yourself' and then remembered that we had tickets for the Derby -v- Barnsley match today. Excellent I thought there will be loads of expressing (probably expletives!) at the match, especially given how Derby are faring at the moment. Unfortunately, it was a pretty uneventful match and Kirsten's face sums up a frustrating (and really cold) 90 minutes. I can't decide whether the chap next to her is just cold or really didn't want to be photographed? Used my compact with no flash to try and catch a good expression but it's tricky to keep still when your hands are shaking from the cold.