I’m having difficulty keeping up with the prompts for The Gallery but I’m really enjoying the opportunity to look at all my photos so I will persevere. Crossbones graveyard, Southwark Some months ago we headed to Borough Market for the morning. Down a side street we came across the memorial gates to the Crossbones graveyard, an unconsecrated graveyard dating back to medieval times. It’s thought that it was used as a burial ground for local prostitutes. I love the way the gates have been used by both men and women to leave their own messages, flowers and decorations. A great…
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It didn’t take me long to choose a photograph for the theme of this weeks’ gallery. Today I scanned an old photograph album my mum gave me of my early years. I was getting a bit fed up of people saying how much Edward looks like his father so decided to look at some old photos to see if they were right. Anyway, I came across the picture of me and my sister sharing a bath in the 1970s (writing that makes me feel very old!) and I knew it summed up the theme perfectly. I don’t make friends easily.…
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I hate being photographed. I’m not sure when it started, but when I was looking through all the photos I’ve taken of Edward since he was born I realised there were only a couple of us together. Over the next few weeks I will rectify this. In honour of the theme of this week’s gallery: self-portrait I’ve chosen the following: a picture of me at the Royal Clarence in Exeter I LOVE photobooth! Me in a very stupid (but necessary) hat on a ferry off the Norwegian coast on honeymoon This post was written for Week 12 of Tara’s Gallery.…
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The theme for The Gallery this week is: Men. Pictures of the men in your life. There are two men in my life, my lovely husband and brand new baby boy. In the short time since he was born (7 weeks!) I have managed to take more photographs of the baby than my husband during the years since we met and got together. In recognition of the only man who can put up with me I have found my favourite photographs of him: kite flying on the Isle of Wight persuading me a weekend on a canal boat in February…
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It’s taken me a while to come up with a picture for this weeks’ The Gallery. I have spent ages looking through my albums. The theme was to paint a picture of the world we live in: The hidden bits, the bits you feel are special and people should know about. The bits people wouldn’t necessarily see. In summer 2008 we were fortunate enough to get places on a tour of the sound mirrors at Dungeness. I think we had heard about them on Radio 4 and were really keen to go and see them for ourselves, combined with a…
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My contribution for this weeks The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers is this portrait I took of my husband and son yesterday. My poor husband has recently been discharged from 2 weeks in hospital where he underwent an emergency operation for an abcess in his bowel. He’s recovering well but it’s been hard for him being parted from his new son. He is just about able to hold him again. I’ve been keeping count of all the nappies he has missed out on changing for when he’s well enough to help out again! This post is for week 9 of…