I got a very special present from Malcolm for my birthday this year (it's also my Christmas present!) ..... a proper grown up camera. Since starting the blog, I have become much more interested in photography, and although my little compact digital camera has served me well, I thought it was time to step up to a serious (and very scary!) camera.
To help me get the best from it, Stuart gave me this book
Every evening I have been reading the instruction manual - it might as well be written in Martian for all the sense some of it makes!! I have also been taking photos of anything and everything to find out what all the settings do. Today's batch is a definite improvement on some of the first efforts!!
a beautiful climbing rose in the front garden
a late flowering clematis in the back garden
dried flowers in the kitchen
Hopefully tomorrow I will be back for Shadow Shot Sunday, having missed it last week because of those naughty little gremlins!