Brave Blue Tit Close To The Window

Talk about right place at the right time! I was at home scrolling through some images on my cameras screen when all of a sudden a blue tit landed on a branch close to the window, so being careful not to move to quickly I raised the camera up and managed to get about three shots. I am delighted to say that this is one of them and is probably the very best image I have of a blue tit so far. Any other time I would have missed it but I just happened to have my camera in my hands at the time.

Song Thrush

I was looking through and reviewing some of my recent attempts at bird photography and came across this image of a Song Thrush, a bird that is not a very frequent visitor to my garden. However, on this occasion I followed his progress around the flower beds as he searched for snails, which when found would be smashed open against the brickwork and devoured, it was fascinating to watch. Anyway, this image reminded me of another couple of shots I got of the Song Thrush during the snow we had in February. I had a look through them, since I hadn't got round to viewing them properly before, and found that I had a got a few decent images.

Jewellery Photography In The Studio

These studio shots are form last year before I started my blog so I thought I'd include them now. The jewellery is by Shelley Sanderson Jewellery and each piece is handmade. We took a lot of time to pay attention to every detail according to each piece, and when it came round to photographing the tiara it just didn't work on a black background somehow, whereas all the other predominantly silver jewellery had. So quickly rethinking I grabbed for a thick piece of rich red velvet that I had knocking around and as you can see the results are striking, vivid red and makes the tiara itself really stand out.

Below is one of my favourite pieces I photographed on the day and there are more examples of the work and photography on the designers website (click link above).