The Buckingham Blog - Photography

Sunsets

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:13:00 -0400

Now the nights are drawing in a bit, it's giving me a bit more scope again for photos, the first is my favourite.

And a couple of others, a wet spiders web and some wild flowers near the sea...

Julie.xx

Weekend Antics

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:38:00 -0400

Yet another busy weekend chez Buckingham!

Saturday morning saw the return of Kory's swimming lessons. This week James took him (and Krystal along for an outing) then went to the ice cream shop afterwards.

Once they came home and we got some lunch, we went to Duthie Park for the City of Aberdeen Clydesdale Horse Show. We thought Krystal would enjoy it as she's so into her ponies, and we weren't wrong.

She loved to stroke the horses all round the place and watching them in the ring parading and performing was right up her street! It was free as well, and although the weather was a bit hit and miss, it was a nice afternoon.

Today was a party for Jamie's birthday, down at Dizzy Rascals. As usual, fun was had by all, not least James! In the afternoon, I took Krystal shoe shopping and she got the same boots as last year but in white this time. And as much as £50 is still horrendous for kids shoes, at least they were still £50 and not up on last years price! Still got Kory's to get, £100 on 2 pairs of winter shoes is just disgusting eh? I'm glad I have kids who's feet barely change in size! But both also need wellies/snow boots.

The boys stayed home and did some microscope viewing of dead beasties and such like! They also made lasagne for their dinner - hope they washed their hands!

Think I'll just pop my photos on the end here, save giving them a separate entry, but I like them on here as an easy place to find!

Julie.xx

Favourite

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:46:00 -0400

This photo is one of my favourite I've taken. I took it because we've (read as I've!) hunted high and low for a nice red canvas for the living room wall with no luck. It's come out much better than I expected and it's being worked on to make it living room proof.

Another couple from this week I like...

Julie.xx

Summer?

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:19:00 -0400

We've had a few nice days recently which is a nice ending to the school holidays. Today we spent the day with all Kory's friends at Dizzy Rascals in the morning then the park in the afternoon. They are really shattered tonight, Kory has been using any excuse to go on his bike now he can go it.

Over the weekend, James took the kids to a forest while I did ironing (what a rock 'n' roll life I lead eh?!) and we pottered in the garden, went round the block several times and went to B&Q to get paint to do the skirting board we fitted (finally!) where the fireplace used to be.

We managed to eat dinner outside one night too. It's been a sunny happy weekend! I've discovered Krystal *loves* to pose for my new camera too!

Julie.xx

Balmedie Beach

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:43:00 -0400

Today we went on a trip to Balmedie Beach with Maria, Davie, Daniel, Josh & Leanne, Jessica & Sophie. We spent a couple of hours at the park and had a picnic lunch there, then headed down to the beach and sand dunes. They all had fun playing in a huge hole, then progressed to paddling - getting soaked!! But we all had a brilliant day out and the rain even held off for us!

Of course it was the perfect chance to play with my camera on 6 moving targets! So some snapshots and some more arty and experimental!

Daniel auditioning for Baywatch!

Some total eejits in the sea - it was freezing!

And lastly is Jessica after throwing herself in the sear wasdripping from head to toe. Completely unfazed, she proceeded to jump into the big sand pit they were playing in making for a very wet soggy mess! To her credit though, she wasn't bothered. I know if Kory or Krystal did this they'd be whinging they are cold etc.

Brilliant day out. Exhausted kids!

Julie.xx

New Camera

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:29:00 -0400

I've got me a shiny new toy, so watch out for even better photos (for anyone who might know anything, it's a Nikon D5000). It's so nice to have a hobby, for years I've wished I was interested in something for me. Outside of the family. And I've found it, without even meaning to really.

I'm still waiting for a bag for it to arrive, but i took it for it's first outing today to the beach. So much to learn, focus was driving me mad, but on just taking a few shots of James and kids and a few other bits, I like it! Huge thanks to my Mum for making it possible.xx

Julie.xx

It's Photo Time!

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:58:00 -0400

The sky this day was amazing, cloud on left with torrential rain and on right blue skies and sun shining through

Yes I know the horizon on the following one is squint, an oversight really, but I still love the photo

James actually took this one at Balmedie Beach - impressive huh?!!

Teeny weeny mushroom in our garden

This waterfall was only 3 bricks high but strangely I think it
looks bigger in this photo

A Few Shots

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:52:00 -0400

I seem to have take to flowers this week!

Julie.xx

Photos Photos Photos

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:20:00 -0400

Groynes

Crane

Flowers

Bridge

Life

Julie.xx

Dynamic Earth

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:26:00 -0400

On Friday before we went to Jenni's wedding we went to a place called Dynamic Earth. It was a huge science place that explains how plant earth got here, and how volcanoes work and glaciers and other good things like that. There were wee ride things that you go on to find out some stuff. I enjoyed it apart from the volcano bit, it was a bit scary!

When we were in the dinosaur bit, we got a nice surprise - Grandpa appeared! He came the rest of the way round with us and I think he enjoyed it too.

Krystal and I went outside at the end, and Mummy explained to us about the building behind us in this photo being where Scottish leaders all meet up to have big chats about how to run our country. It's a very funny looking place. Daddy said it cost a very lot of money too.

Kory
xxxx

P.S. Photo's Mummy took of the Forth Bridges on the way there and way home...

Rollercoaster & Beach

Mon, 10 May 2010 19:06:00 -0400

A couple of recent shots I really like.

Julie.xx

Photos Again

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:33:00 -0400

it's been a while since I popped some of my photos on, and I need to clear the camera card, so here they are!

Gerberra

Birthday Girl

Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:18:00 -0400

Today was Krystal's 3rd birthday. She was up again in the night last night so didn't get up until 8:10am. She was so excited to see this pile of presents waiting for her.

I think her face says it all in this photo when she opened her pink iPod. She might only be turning 3, but she really wasn't needing anything, Kory has one and they both love music. Getting one of the old style ones like his but in pink wasn't the easiest thing!

We got all ready and headed to the cinema for 10am (yawn) to see a film about mermaids. The write up made it sound like a rewrite of "The Little Mermaid" but it wasn't what we expected at all. It was japanese cartoon. They enjoyed it though, and I got into it as it went on!

We then headed to Pizza Hut for lunch. We met a couple of the kids friends there which they loved and the food went down well too!

We came home for a while after that, to make phonecalls to people who'd been trying to get us all morning and to chill for a bit. Krystal was a bit huffy and tired, so we scrapped any plans we had for the afternoon and decided just to head to Johnstone Gardens for a walk and then to a playpark.

Though this ended in disaster when Kory was on one of the wobbly things (you know like a horse on a big coiled spring) and made it go so fast it came back and smacked him in the eye!

We came home, fed the troops (again!) and sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles. The cake was very yummy even if I do say so myself!

When we went upstairs to get ready for bed, Krystal wanted to try on one of her presents from Nana. She got it last year in China and kept for her birthday. I think it was meant to be for dressing up, but I love it! Only not sure when I'd ever put it on her. Only time I can think is on a holiday in the evening for eating out. It's so pretty. She was so funny bowing in it too.

I think a good day was had by her, she's come so far from this...

Happy Birthday Princess Krystal

Julie.xx

Flower Power

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:29:00 -0400

When my Dad was up last week, he bought me a bunch of flowers. After reading an article on taking shots in low like without a flash, I decided to try it out. Here is the result....

On a site I use for my photos, this one made it to the "spotlight" page very quickly, so I'm rather impressed with it!

Julie.xx

Snowy Photos

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:54:00 -0400

As I said there's been snow here in Aberdeen again, so here's some of my shots this past week....

Friday - the start of the snowfall

Sunday - the ice beginning to form on the River Dee

Monday - the ice thickens resembling Antarctica

Tuesday - Old bloke being daft going over to take photos. He turned back, realised it was just too dangerous thankfully before it was too late!

Tuesday - Dad taking photos of the River Dee

Thursday - the snow/ice is melting letting some water go downstream leaving massive icebergs at the sides. They must be 3 or 4 ft high.

And a handful from last week...

This was from our park trip