Little Seaside Town | Tenby

Recently, my family & I went to Tenby with some friends for a couple of days. We stayed in their Grandma's caravan which was in a cute, little caravan site near the centre of Tenby. It brought back quite a few memories as this used to be a yearly tradition for all of us. We would always go and visit the town centre and the beach. We would also normally visit a couple of attraction parks, but we decided to give them a miss this time around. However, we did bring Lily (my families dog) & Lola (our friends dog) along with us this time which was really lovely as we took them for a couple of walks around different places in Tenby. 

One of my favourite memories of the trips to Tenby would have to be when we would all sit around the dinning table in the evening and play various board games and card games for a couple of hours. We used to have a right old chuckle as every time we would play a game the men used to cheat (yet we would always manage to catch them out). This time around we did get to play a couple of games on one of the evenings which was a hoot. (If you were wondering, the men did cheat AGAIN, and NO they didn't get away with it!) 

It was nice to get away and explore for a couple of days. I loved being able to work on my photography and take different pictures of things in the Town.  

I hope you have liked looking through the pictures that I captured when I was in Tenby. I have decided that I am going to be doing a lot more photography blogposts as I have been really enjoying focusing on my photography at the moment. Sorry that my blogposts have been lacking, I am going to start uploading them more regularly from now onwards. If you have any questions you would like to ask, you can leave them in the comments below. It would be nice to hear any thoughts and opinions you may have on the blogpost as well. I hope that this post has been able to interest or inspire you in some way or another. :)

Lauren xoxo

Afternoon Walks

Every now and then when the weather is decent I like to go for a walk as it helps me relax and clears all thoughts from my head. I take my camera with me as I never know when there could be a moment that I would like to capture. Afternoon walks are one of my favourite times to experiment with my photography as I feel it's the time of day I tend to learn more. 

These are a couple of photographs that I captured when I was on a dog walk with my parents. It was quite chilly with the slightest bit of sun, as it was winter/spring season, which I found was great conditions to do some experimenting in.  I love a picture with different textures which is why I like taking photographs with a lot of pattern, detail and movement in.   

I hope you liked looking through a couple of the photographs that I took. If you have any questions you would like to ask then you can leave a comment below. :)


Lauren
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Animal Safari

In the winter things to do and places to go seem to be quite limited. I wanted to go somewhere close to home with my friends for my birthday so I decided to look into different ideas that we could do. I found there was only a couple of things that would be possible to do within travel distance - go away shopping for the day (which would mean spending lots of money) or go to an attraction park. I decided on the attraction park as I felt it would be more relevant for everyone. I thought that the West Midlands Safari Park would be the best place to go to as it has a variation of things to do there (plus my friends don't like rides so it would be more suitable for them). 

My parents kindly took me and my friends to the Safari Park as none of us could drive. I made up a picnic for everyone so that we wouldn't have to buy food there. We spent 2 hours in the car looking at the animals (which was good as it was cold outside). At one point we couldn't stop ourselves from laughing as my friend had bought a pack of 4 apples to feed to the animals. (We found this funny as you weren't actually aloud to feed them anything besides the animal food that you can buy there. It was also because my friend had spent more on the apples then she would have on herself and decided to give the animals a whole apple each. It may not sound very amusing, but I guess it was one of those times where you had to be there in the moment to find it funny.) 

I decided to take some pictures as I wanted to see how well they would turn out using my phone camera to take them. 

I hope you have enjoyed looking through the pictures and reading about my Safari experience. My overall day was really good, and I would definitely recommend going if you would like to go on a lovely day out somewhere. If you have any questions you would like to ask me then you can leave a comment below. :)

Lauren

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Discovering My Love For People Photography

These photograph's were captured on a winter's afternoon (6th January) in 2013. 
I was given the Panasonic Lumix FZ45 Digital Camera as a present for Christmas in 2012. I had been wanting a new camera ever since I started a course on art and design at college. I couldn't contain my excitement when I received the camera and began to experiment with the different settings straight away. When I started to get to know my camera a lot more over the Christmas holidays, I decided to go out and start taking some pictures.
I hadn't had much practice with photographing people and wanted to try taking photo's of people around a pretty setting. As a favor to help me gain experience, my cousin Yazmine modeled for my photograph's. 

Captured using my Panasonic Lumix FZ45 Digital Camera. Black and White edit on image. 

Myself and Yazmine went on a walk around my area so I could decide on what scenery I would like to capture. I noticed how beautiful the woodlands near my house was looking at the time and thought that it would be a lovely place to take the pictures. I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted the structure of my photograph's to be like. I kept trying out different arrangements and if the image appealed to me, I would adapt on it. I found that I had to be quite creative and imaginative with what I was doing. 

Captured using my Panasonic Lumix FZ45 Digital Camera. Colour effect edit on image.

Looking at the photograph's, I find they look more autumnal than wintery due to there being so many leaves on the floor and the yellowy/brown colours. This was my first practice with photo-shoots and is where I discovered my love of people photography.

I hope the post was enjoyable to read and that it has given inspiration in some way. If you would like to leave a comment, I would love to hear about any stories where you may have discovered a love for something from trying out something new.


Lauren 
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