My weekend in Pictures

Friday I went on my "second birthday" with my mama to a city nearby for a little shopping trip :) I said I would try to take pictures, but it was nearly impossible. We were sooo busy and spent of course most of the time in clothes shop, where I don't take pictures normally ;)
However I got quite a few lovely clothes (mostly summer clothes) and had a lovely lunch in the sun.
Here is a picture of the café we were in:

This morning my family and I woke up to a lovely hot summer's day AND a lovely breakfast prepared by my mama:

 

 

While I was trying to make my legs brown without getting a sunburn, my brother was swimming in the fresh water which was a perfect occasion for me to practise taking pictures of moving water.

Haha I find these pool pictures so fun especially when he splashes :D

So that was my little weekend, I hope you all had a good one too!

What's happening these days?

It's been a while that I haven't put up any post! I was very busy with my new summer job (now that I quit the au pair job that didn't go as expected...) and I have a lot of things coming up!

This Tuesday was my birthday :) I'm 19 now! (feels so old!) and I was accepted today in the University I wanted to get in. (yaaaay!)
In a week I will get a new kitten !! A little black one with golden eyes. I will put up a lot of pictures of him as soon as he comes. For the moment I have to find a little name for him :)
In about three weeks I'm heading to Ireland (again, I know) but this time it's to do a trip/roadtrip around the west of Ireland with my two best friends.
We will see the cliffs of Moher, Connemara, etc and of course, as you can imagine, my little canon friend will come with me, so expect lots of photos to pop up here when I come back!

I don't know what photos to put up today, but for my birthday we went to a lovely restaurant (one of my favourites actually) where the main theme is the USA/western. So the whole place is decorated from top to bottom with cowboy hats, pictures, statues, and even a real pink Cadillac car is sitting in there. They make lovely pizzas that you can watch being baked mmmmmm :)

Here are a few pictures I took this week:

And a little bird that didn't move too much when I came close to him. I think he was hurt cause they normally fly away instantly if you come too close or make too much noise. My lens is a prime lens, and not a zoom so you can see by this picture how close I could get to him. Poor thing flew away though, I hope I didn't scare him too much but I just wanted a little picture :)

I hope I will get to post more pictures and posts in the next few days! Maybe I will get to take some of the city tomorrow where I'm going to enjoy a late-birthday with my mama.

Hope you all have a great Friday and weekend!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday!

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time since I have participated in Scavenger Hunt but finally this week I have time and took a picture for each theme!

 

Candy

 



I didn't find any candy in the house, but I found these lebkuchen and since they're sweet and delicious :) I thought they would suit just fine for candy.

 

 

Pink or Red

 

 

 

Love

 

 

 

Kisses

 

 

My cat and her new toy :)

 

 

Smile

 

 

 

 

This was my meal a few days ago: a buttered bagle cut in half and rice. I didn't even take this photo on purpose for scavenger hunt, I was in a funny mood that day :) and took this with my phone.

 

 

I wish everyone a great week and happy Scavenger Hunting!

 

 

 

Ho Ho Ho! Late Merry Christmas!

Hello!!

It's been SUCH a long time since I've written, or even been, on my blog!

Well...I have an explanation for this. You see, a few weeks ago, my lovely acer laptop decided to simply die on me.

So I was left computerless for a while! But for christmas my sweet brother and my parents decided to give me my brother's old toshiba computer (that still works wonderfully well) that needed a few new parts (battery, plug and keyboard).

So here I am again!! And -since it's too late to wish everyone merry christmas- I hope everyone had a great christmas :)

Today I decided to take a few pictures of one or two of my new presents (and you'll understand why I'm taking EVERYTHING in picture).

And THIS is why I've been taking photos non-stop everyday! Here is my new canon ef 50mm 1.8 !! He is small, light and just wonderful!

I'm sooo happy with my new lens. It's so sharp. So much sharper than my other one.

I thought that the problem with my other lens was the fact that I wasn't doing a good job with manual so I started taking everything in automatic and yet, the photos were still blurry-ish. (Look at my last post to understand what I mean).

And now today I'm learning the system of manual and it works! proof: these pictures were taken manually. :)

By the way, I use to have the photoshop 7 but now I got the photoshop CS6 and it's so much better! I can even open RAW files now :P

My laptop has got one problem I've got to fix: it stretches everything: photos,etc. So I hope these pictures aren't too big or stretched or whatever! I have the impression that they are a bit big :P

What I also find strange is that all the icons I had on the right of my blog and the "next page" at the bottom don't appear on my screen...mysterious...

I hope you all have a lovely evening/day and I'll be posting again soon, oh yes I will! :D

Here are some more pictures (just because it's christmas :P ):

Have a great day!

p.s. merry christmas to JipetSun! Hope to see some new posts on your blog too :)

Cat turns into model

Hello hello hello!

 

I'm trying to shoot in "RAW" with my new canon, and these are the results: keep in mind that I discovered that my photoshop (7) is too old to open RAW pictures, great! :P

So I had to use a program that came with my camera.

And you might have noticed that my cat is in every picture :) cause she was the only model around!

 

 

 

 

 

 

So that's Kitty, my cat. As you can see I'm not quite there yet with the RAW shooting yet and most pictures are slightly blurred because there is no image stabilisator built in the camera nor in the lens.

 

So If you have any advice just leave me a comment or send me an email!

 

Have a nice day!