Tag Archives: Hertfordshire

The Summer Slump

July 27, 2012 By in Harpenden, Photography Tags: , , , , , , 11 Comments

I am in a bit of a funny place with blogging at the moment. Not a slump, exactly, but I’ve definitely slowed down. I feel like I’m doing a lot of photo posts, and not very much writing. I think it’s partly because the weather has been so much better, so rather than spending my spare time sitting in front of the computer, I’ve been out and about walking, running, and using my camera.

I think it’s also just the time of year when a lot of bloggers are taking a break because of the summer holidays. We are off ourselves in a few weeks, and I plan to schedule some guest posts, but take some proper time off myself.
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Project 52: Week 29

July 26, 2012 By in Harpenden, Photography Tags: , , , , , , , 3 Comments

Classics on the Common Harpenden

I have been seeing signs around town for weeks advertising an event called ‘Classics on the Common’ and had assumed it was a big open air classical concert.

Doh.

Thankfully, Being Mrs C put me right. It is actually an annual event where around 1500 classic cars and motorbikes go on display. In other words, DorkySon’s dream day out.

Closer

July 24, 2012 By in Harpenden, Photography Tags: , , , , , , , , , , 3 Comments

barbed wire macro photography

I posted a couple of weeks ago about what a surprisingly lovely time I had just going for a walk and taking a path that I hadn’t been down before. The weather was stunning again today, so I went out for another walk along a similar route, but this time I took a macro lens to really make me pay close attention to some of the things I saw along the way.
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A Walk

July 2, 2012 By in Harpenden, Photography Tags: , , , , , , , 27 Comments

I was chatting to a friend last week, someone who lives in the same town, and we confessed a slightly shameful secret. We love to take our cameras with us when we go out – she is a much, much better photographer than I am – but we both find the countryside around here completely uninspiring. I had never thought of myself as an ‘urban’ girl, but I would far rather take photos walking down a street of grotty graffiti than I would take photos of the fields and rolling countryside around Hertfordshire. I just find it all a bit… well, dull.

On Sunday it was a lovely sunny day, so I thought I’d try and snap myself out of the photographic funk by going out for a long walk with DorkySon.

We started in the park as usual.

Rothamsted Park, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
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