My Dad’s garden is full of the signs of fruit to come
Gooseberries, blueberries raspberries (big picture), tomatoes (big picture), blackcurrants, apples.
Had some camera fun on Sunday getting real close to the fruit and using low angles, getting the camera in under the plants.
If you want to see more photo mosaics, check out Mosaic Monday at Little Red House
more signs of summer and the continuing sunny weather
1. bunting up in town for the festival
2. child’s jumper I knitted for charity that send them to a Zambian orphanage
3. red shoes for every occasion
4. lunch in Princes’ St in Edinburgh, along with lots of other people
5. moving a stunned fledgling nuthatch
6. collecting elderflowers to make syrup and sorbet
7. still life of salad ingredients
I have to decorate in every room of my new flat so I’ve been thinking about colour schemes a lot. Purple is my favourite, probably signature, colour so that is what I’ve decided to use. I found a nice striped fabric in John Lewis which I will use to cover the bedhead and as the basis of the colour scheme.
The stripes are actually straight – the fabric is draped in the photo. The ceiling will be in the cream, the floor and furniture will be in the 2nd down (birch veneer). One wall will be in the deep purple and the other 3 walls in one of the other 2 purples.
I think the creams balance the purples well and I love the deep colour for the feature wall.
Using cream and fawn makes this a classic contrast colour scheme as yellow is opposite purple on the colour wheel – fun to be using all my colour knowledge on such a big scale.
Trying to photograph fabrics in the shop made me realise how much the camera can change the colours I see with me eyes.
I recently discovered the annual world photo walk which happens on 24th July. There is a map which shows all the places where walks are being organised and more venues are being added all the time. Edinburgh has just been added so I’ll be joining in. The idea is that a group has a walk and takes lots of photos on the way. The Edinburgh one then goes to a bar to share shots and stories. Sounds like fun.
Have you ever been on a photowalk? Is there one near you on the 24th?
Can’t post without a photo so here is one I took a year ago today – on Niue, a very small island in the Pacific Ocean – it rained heavily all day.
