Amelia's photos

The Saturday Self Challenge: 'Things we love about Christmas.' I love decorating our Christmas tree while listening to music. The lights and the baubles etc. brighten up the short days at this time. My favourite Christmas music this year is O come, O come, Emmanuel - (Piano/Cello) - The Piano Guys Another favourite is Carol of the Bells - Amazing Piano Solo - David Hicken

The PiP is reflected colours from the Christmas tree baubles and lights in the bowl of a spoon.

This week's challenge: 'Do something interesting with Light Bulbs'. Well - it is coming up for Christmas after all ........

The lights were changing colours in an uncoordinated way, and some of the combinations were amazing. I like the 'Aurora Borealis' one best, but Adrian chose this one as he is in it holding hands with James. ;-)

Saturday 16 Dec. 2017 'Letters of the Alphabet'. These are old print blocks which I picked up years ago in order to give to my daughters, Amelia, Victoria and Elizabeth. The 'Es' were easy to find, as were the 'As'. The only 'V' I had has been given away. These print letters are the only ones I have left.

Crab apples which will soon be taken by the hungry birds.

Vivaldi - Four Seasons (Winter)

Platters - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

TSC:Trucks You can use the whole truck or parts of the truck. Have the truck (or the part or section of the truck you are using) fill the frame. For those who wish to use the following twist for more of a challenge. Find a red or green truck to photograph if you can (it is the Christmas Season you know. This is the best I could do for this week's challenge. For the last 3 days, most trucks, except for tractors with snow ploughs fitted, have not been through our village,

Your topic for this challenge will be intentional camera movement (ICM). Created by zooming out for 0.6 of a second. I think it might have been better to use a tripod and taken in the garden furniture 2 months ago! The first PiP is taken using a downward movement, the second is another 'explosion' photo of our Christmas tree, which has been put up early because we have house guests this weekend.

Attingham Park is an English country house and estate in Shropshire. Located near the village of Atcham, on the B4380 Shrewsbury to Wellington road. It is owned by the National Trust. It is a Grade I listed building. Attingham Hall was built in 1785 for Noel Hill, 1st Baron Berwick who commissioned the architect George Steuart to design a new and grander house to be built around his original home. The new country house encompassed the old property entirely, and once completed it was given the name Attingham Hall.