Conifer

Jesus help me, i think i am starting to be all sentimental. The things i am enjoying more and more are the little things that happen in my life. I get a big chunk of work done and i look back and feel proud, laying in bed with my girlfriend, i smell her hair and i am very thankful that i have someone who loves me, unquestioning of my flaws, even loving me for them, a home cooked meal from a loving mother and a crisp autumn/winter day is something to savour not curse.

The little things that turn out to matter more...

Brrrr

So it's really autumn now. Up to the last couple of days the weather has been really mild, but the weather has turned autumnal. Days are shorter and darker. Leaves are falling off the tree.

AY, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath! When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief
And the year smiles as it draws near its death. Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay
In the gay woods and in the golden air,
Like to a good old age released from care,
Journeying, in long serenity, away.
In such a bright, late quiet, would that I
Might wear out life like thee, 'mid bowers and brooks
And dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,
And music of kind voices ever nigh;
And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,
Pass silently from men, as thou dost pass.


By William Cullen Bryant - http://www.poetseers.org/early_american_poets/william_cullen_bryant/library/october/

Funguy

Sorry for the absence, been amazingly busy lately. The weather is starting to close in and is one of the factors for this blogging recession. The other is my internet is so bad at the moment sometimes i haven't even got any connections. Every Saturday we have a little tree identification group going and it's really good to go out and put into practice things that i am learning.

I'm not sure where i am going with this blog at the moment. I still love taking photographs and i am still into blogging, but putting them both together seems to be difficult. Let's just plug on and try and create good content. 

A Shabby Approach to Symbolism

Ok i am saying a pre-sorry for the symbolism of this post. I think lately i am growing bored of the kind of photography i am doing. It seems to be all the same. Or at least very similar. But like everything in this world things move in cycles and patterns, (please look above and see the mark disregard for the un-imaginative symbolism i am trying to put across to you) where trying to buck the trend is sometimes the wrong thing to do. Sometimes it is better to ride the wave and see where it takes you.

On the other hand isn't it better to buck there trend and find new and exciting things to photograph? I dunno, maybe i am just confusing things now. But whatever happens i will always put pictures forward waiting for praise or criticism (by the way either is gratefully welcomed on my humbled blog).

Ships, A Wall and Someone

I've been taking photos for quite a while now and i am still really nervous about approaching people and asking if i can take pictures of them. Not sure why? I am normally really confident about approaching people in whatever situation, but this seems to be a stumbling block for me. I am thinking about just jumping in head first, and jsut go around asking people and taking pictures. I will let you know how i get on and post up the results.

More pictures can be seen HERE!

Menai 2

I think it's pretty weird what pictures you like and others you are indifferent too. For some reason i really like this picture. But a different picture, one that took ages to get the shot. After the editing stage of this haphazard process, it didn't turn out how i wanted. I almost shun it.

I think i really like this picture because of the mirror effect it has on the water. It doesn't produce a crisp and sharp mirror effect and when i look at it, it makes my eyes go a little funny. But it has that kind of ugly duck syndrome or something. I am just babbling now....

More Botanical Garden Shots

I am actually addicted to the botanical gardens. I got to say that there are worse things to be addicted to. It's got such an array of flowers and trees, i have only just scratched the surface of the gardens. I think it's going to be great to witness the change from desolate winter to flourishing spring. Roll on spring.

Have To See Pictures

Was just checking my emails and had a link off of a friend that took me to a bike shop home page. Clicked on the gallery tab and it took me to a page with pictures of all the bikes they have built. They are great photos of really great bikes. I love it, two of my passions pushed together in a splattering of colour and bike porn (bike porn are magazines or websites with beautiful bikes on, not naked bikes in weird positions with other naked bikes, i am not that weird).

Here is the link for the gallery. Have a look and let me know what you think!

A Quick Note

Hello there lovely bloggers,

A while ago i had a wonderful guest post from Lady Wanderlust. It was really awesome and i want it to happen more often. So don't hold back. They don't have to be superb photography. Just pictures that YOU, the blogger, have taken and a has a really special, funny, heart warming, sad, horrible...anything, back story. So come on, send me some pictures and a few words. Don't hold back.

My email is cay.brown@gmail.com

A Very Apple Day

A couple of weekends ago, as a social event for one of the societies i have joined in university, we made some cider. And drank a lot of it after. The cider we drank was the cider that was made last year. It was bloody strong and we had to spike it with some apple juice to make it drink-able. But it was a really interesting day and something i have never done before. After all, life is about doing new things...

A Trip to Anglesey

Bangor is situated really near the Island of Anglesey. It's about a 10 minute walk away from halls. So it was really great to get over there and have a walk around. I walked through the town on a sleepy and chilly Sunday afternoon. On the straights there are a few little inlets where boats are left decaying in the muddy wash. I put something to practise that i learnt in one of my lectures. I took some [rubbish] pictures of Algae or  as they more commonly known, SEAWEED. Yes i did not know this, but i suppose this is why i am at university. To learn a lot of useless knowledge.

P.s. Seaweed is MACRO algae not a plant.

a Very Big Sorry

Here is a flower to all who have been following my blog over the last couple of months and i have to say i feel bad that i have not been paying the attention to you, the readers, that you deserve We have had no internet for a while now. Well i have had internet but sometimes it works and other times it doesn't. So a big sorry.

Looking Back at Sunday

This building holds the arts and humanity subjects of the university. It's a really great, old style building that keeps the look throughout the inside of the building. I think that it looks like Hogwarts from the Harry Potter books. So now it is named as Hogwarts when we talk about this building.

More photos of last Sunday's photos can be seen HERE

Botanical Gardens 2

There are some more pictures of the botanical garden HERE

Botanical Gardens 1

I checked out the botanical gardens today that are attached to the university. It's a cool little place and this weekend i get to do some work there. Getting my hands dirty for the first time in a few months. Great fun. As long as it's not raining. Anyway, more pictures can be seen HERE

Peer Times

My new found friends and i had to get some supplies for a beach party. While walking down we stopped at the pier to take some shots. When posting on this blog normally i can pick one out that i like. But this times i had a really hard time picking one out. So i just chose a picture of all of them and slapped that one up. But then i looked at the second one and just thought it was the best one of them all.

More can be seen HERE

Guest Pictures - Lady Wanderlust

Welcome to my first ever guest picture post. The lucky first person to get their picture up on my blog was Lisa aka Lady Wanderlust.

"Taken In San Francisco while wandering Chinatown: awesome wall "art""

"This photo was taken In San Francisco while wandering Chinatown; just a random souvenir shop."

These are two great photos and i hope that this kind of post can be a regular item. Remember if you would like to submit some photos for my blog just email me at cay.brown@gmail.com with a few words to go with the picture. The first one is up (and it was a good one) now everyone else has to try and beat them.

Freshers Week!

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Been partying my freshers week away. I been drinking to much and sleeping too little.

Normal service will continue soon. If you have any pictures you want to post up. Just send me an email on cay.brown@gmail.com with the picture and a few words about it. I can also add any information you want me to put up along with the picture.

Would love it if there were any takers. It would be good to get a regular thing going.

Bangor

Sorry i haven't posted in a while but i have just finished un-packing. I decided to go on a walk earlier just to see the new area i am living in. It's really great. I have always wanted to live by the sea. Though it's not the kind of sea you want to go for a dip in. Way too cold!

Anyway i am off to sample university life. More pictures can be seen HERE

It's a Mum Issue

I realised that i literally have no photographs of my mam anywhere. None with my new camera and none with my old one. So today, while out, i took a few snaps. Personally i think they turned out really nice. But my mam didn't like them at all. Well this is my blog and what i like goes.

Oh by the way, M-A-M is a Welsh-ism for mum.

Like always, more photos can be seen HERE.