Day 347 - Monday Again...

Bah humbug. It does not feel like Christmas at all while being at school. I dislike school, I just want to be off already! Well, to add to the Christmassy mood to my blog, I'll take a nice Christmassy photo of the tree. Haha I have a bobble with my name on it! Win!

Day 153 - Walking Through Narnia...

I went into school today for a wee while just while to pick up some stuff / drop some stuff off. You know, there is nothing to do in Downpatrick! Vikki and I waited around for an hour for the bus to come to take us home... seriously Downpatrick... get yourself something fun! ... like a playpark!! :D

Ah well, I got the Dundrum bus home which involved walking home for about 2 miles, but that didn't bother me. My normal bus home (Castlewellan) has a tendency to be temperamental and one time I was left to walk 2 miles on a dangerous main road. Scary!! But walking home from Dundrum means country roads, hardly any cars. It's also a very pretty road!

I happened to have my camera with me, so I snapped some pictures on my favourite road - the Moneylane Road, a.k.a. Narnia. It's called Narnia because it takes you from my road directly to my friends house, and you reach the end of it and say "Woah!! How did I get here?? I was just at Jo's house!!" The above picture is the view of the Mourne Mountains from Moneylane. I love the sky in this picture.

Cow parsnip grows all along the roads along where I live, it's hard not to see it when you're out for a walk! It's a really dainty little flower and rather pretty! :)And finally this is a picture of a tree I have to stop and admire every time I walk past... it's so pretty.

Day 142 - My Thinking Tree...

This is a cherry tree in my garden... at least I think it's a cherry tree. Apparently it's quite rare! I used to climb it when I was upset, and just sit in that tree and think. There was a branch that was just the perfect seat! It was really really nice weather today so I enjoyed the sun while I could, however most of the day I was inside, doing art... hooray.

Day 23 - A Genuinely Good Day.

I love it when after a stressful and not nice week at school you go out at the weekend and genuinely enjoy yourself! School is hard, and is stressful, and usually the weekend consists of me doing work or resting... and if I go out I'm exhausted / stressing over the work I'm not doing! But today some friends and I went out to Tollymore to actually do some schoolwork - filming some experimental footage for Moving Image Arts (like Film Studies). It was a lot of fun, I was filling in for the cast member and I suddenly remembered how much I love acting! =] I haven't done any proper acting since my GCSE drama final last April... a long time ago!

This picture is of my good friend Sophie (hopefully she won't mind me using this photo... I can't remember if she approved of it or not =P) It was taken with my fish eye lense, but I edited out the black circly bit on Photoshop and tweaked the colour and lighting a wee bit to make it look less flat. I "dodged" the edges to give it a nice effect. Like this one =]

Hope everyone is having as good a weekend as I'm having! =D

Day 17 - My Jeans Are Muddy.

This picture is rubbish, I know. But I was getting film mostly for school work so didn't have time to get a decent shot. And now I'm too tired to care.

Jo out.

Day 3 - Macroooooooooo

I am a big fan on the Macro setting on a camera. However, usually on my camera, macro plus flash usually equals fail... it seemed to work this time though! I took a picture of this twig because I liked the texture on it. I had my camera on the macro setting but forgot to turn flash off as I usually would, and I'm glad I forgot! The lack of flash created the black background, which I am quite pleased with. The depth of field in the photo is a bit odd, but I like it! Note to self - don't rely on past photo experiences... try something new!