Thursday 26 March 2015

Is It Just Me Or Does This Make You Hungry??

Last year I posted a blog about attempting to photograph food photography, I found that the photos weren't my favourites and I said I wanted to try photographing food again. Recently in my weekly challenges at uni we had been given the task to photograph food which was a prefect time to try attempt food photography. I decided I wanted to take a different approach to photographing food; to gain ideas I knew I needed to do a little bit of research. While researching for a different project I found Dannielle Evans, a typographer who uses food within her work. 
This is my attempt at food typography ...




I thought my fruit salad photo was the most creative as I used a mixture of whole fruits and some chopped up fruits, all the colours of the fruit complimented the colours of a tropical fruit salad. My personal favourite photo though would be the waffles, despite not being as strong of a photo as the fruit salad I personally like the layout of the waffles and the fact I successfully managed to write in waffle mix.
Here's some behind the scenes photos ...







For the sugar and spice photo shoot I had some help setting up, as you can see above there is my lovely assistant with the stressful task of writing in sugar ... I later had the fun task of writing with fruit and waffles, obviously I had to eat all the evidence (not that I'm complaining)
Question of the day: Which of the final three photos do you like the most??

Wednesday 25 March 2015

The Photography Show

So yesterday I went to The Photography Show in Birmingham NEC, I had a whale of a time and there was plently to see/ do. Fortunately for me one of my weekly tasks in uni was to recreate an iconic photo, I was rather lucky to stumble across a Marilyn Monroe look-alike throughout the day at the Hasslebland stand and just had to snap up a great opportunity. Here are some of my photos ...




I decided to keep my photos in colour as I thought the photos looked beautiful with that splash of colour thought I might play around with the photos and experiment with them in black and white. 
Question of the day: Did you go to the Photography Show this year?? 
If you did what day did you go and did you go intending to buy anything?? 

Monday 23 March 2015

The Liebster Award

Thank you to Dannielle Hunt for my nomination for the Liebster Award - here are my answers to the questions ...

1. Why did you start blogging?

I started blogging as part of my uni course, but decided to keep it as I found blogging rather enjoyable. 

2. Best and worst trait about yourself?

I've never really considered myself to have a best trait but if I do I haven't found it yet. I however could write a list for my worst traits, but I'll just keep it to the most obvious, my confidence. 

3. Where is your favourite place you've been to in the whole world?

I haven't been to many places, or at least a favourite hasn't sprung to mind but I don't mind where I am as long as I have my family (I know, it sounds so lame but it's true).

4. Who inspires you?

My nan, she was the kind of woman who took a lot of crap and would just let it slide as she just wanted to keep the peace. She was the most respectful woman I know, she knew when you let things slide and knew when to fight back. She was so strong minded and calm, I never really understood how she did it, she truly inspires me. 

5. What would be the first thing you bought if you won the lottery?

The first thing I'd do with a lottery winning would probably be to pay off all my moms bills, then I'd buy a house or use the money to start up a business.

6. Favourite song. Ever??

My favourite song changes all the time but at the moment my favourite song is "Moving On"- Asking Alexandria

7. What is your biggest problem/challenge when it comes to blogging?

Trying to make my blog interesting enough for people to enjoy reading, and getting viewers to actually read my blog is hard. 

8. Best photograph you've ever taken and why?


I have a lot of favourite photos so pinning it down to just one is extremely hard. I took this photo a couple of years ago but I'm still proud of it nevertheless, I suppose the reason why I'm so proud of it was because I couldn't get hold of a studio to take my photos in so I had to make one. All I had was a garage lamp and a black bed sheet yet you wouldn't have guessed it by looking at the image. Admittedly the image does have a slight yellow tint to it but I preferred that for this photo. To me because of how I achieved the image, I felt like this was one of my best images.


9. What was your dream job as a child?
As a child I loved animals so I grew up wanting to be a vet, it wasn't until a couple people knocked my dreams down and gave me a reality check when I realised that I might need to look into doing something else.

10. Cat or dog?

Dog. I own two cats but I'm definitely more of a dog person.

11. Where do you hope to see yourself in 25 years?

Alive and healthy would be nice, but where ever my camera takes me. 



My questions are:


1. What are your top 3 favourite movies??

2. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be??
3. What is your biggest pet hate??
4. How did you start blogging??
5. What is the craziest thing on your bucket list??
6. Do you prefer sports or books??
7. What was your most favourite school memory??
8. Sweet or savoury??
9. Name a time you laughed so hard it hurt??
10. Top 2 favourite clothing brands??
11. Do you prefer the sun or the rain??

I nominate:

1. Hanna
2. Pamela
3. Treandy
4. Hivenn
5. Carli
6. LOLALZ
7. Deborah
8. Kay
9. Roisin
10. Hannah
11. Jacklyn

The rules are:

If you are interested or didn't know before just like me the rules are:



  • Answer all the questions given by the nominator
  • Nominate 11 other bloggers who have less than 200 followers
  • Notify all the bloggers you nominate
  • Made 11 new questions for your nominees to answer