The finished product.....

Natalie roaring like a tiger after her face was all made up, at her school fete, you can see the full video of the makeup going on:

Macro Photography

I have always enjoyed photography and having got a decent camera for my 40th Birthday (20 Monhts ago!!) I have got into the habit of never bringing it with me as it is a bit bulky so keep missing out on photographic opportunities.
I have realised that photographic opportunities dont jsut turn up you find them in every day things, anyhow whilst out earlier I captured the wild Orchid featured in my previous picture, on my phone's camera, we the had lunch at the cafe and I was thinking about photo apportunities and the fact that I had missed the opprtunity of getting a realy nice shot because I onyl had the camera from my phone.

I have really wanted to get into some Macro Photography but have just not had the opprtunity and yet this opprotunity arrives and I dont have the camera.

Then I realise that my mobile's camera has a macro photography setting, so thought I woudl at least try and take a picture using it, there was a pot of flowers on the table so I decided to take a picture of a couple of the flowers, I have to say, I am pleasantly surprised at how good a shot it has come up as, I have generally been pretty scathing of the kind of quality of pictures a phone camera can produce, I am not saying that the phone can ever produce the same kind of quality as a real decent camera but I am pleased enough to think that I never have the excuse that I haven't got my camera with me, I now wish I had thought about the macro feature on my phone when we were round near the orchid but hey there we are! We will be back there some time and then I can take a photo of it with the real camera (as long as I remeber to bring it with me)

Orchid in HOCP

We went for a walk round Harrold & Odell Country Park (one of our regular haunts) and a couple comming the other way said to us there was a wild orchid growing, they told us whereabouts it was I have to say I was intrigues as I have NEVER seen a wild orchid growing in the UK so we went to the spot and there, tucked in the long grass was this very small specimin, I dont have a clue how they noticed it, its really not anywhere special and its so small and insignificant, but they did see it and they mentioned it to us so we had the privelege of seeing it as well, sadly I didnt have my real camera with me so had to make do with taking a picture of it on my phone but at least I am able to share it with everyoen who looks at my blog.
I might try bringing the real camera with me next time and seeing if I can get some better pictures of it, as long as it remains intact, wonder whether there are others, there most be I cant see how jsut 1 little orchid could suddenly apear there without there being others around.