Dappled sunshine {Joanna}

Just in case the sunshine goes away for a few days...... 

a little holga love... {Emma}

a little gift...

Hello!
Hope everyone is well and enjoying the arrival of Spring!!  Can't believe how lovely it is to feel sunshine on your face... it really does make you happy... :)
Another thing that makes me happy are gifts so today we have a little gift for you! It's a little 'From our hearts' badge that you are free to stick on your blog/website... wherever you like!  Sorry it's not chocolate but it is pretty and we like to make sure everyone that follows the blog and takes part in the projects, feel a real part of this community so.... feel free to copy and paste the image below!

We've also got a little competition coming up with April's project so keep your eyes peeled!

Magic {Fourward}

Our second submission for our Fourward project

Each month the four of us will take the same word/time/idea/concept and individually interpret it with just one photo, without knowing what the other have produced until they are all posted together at the end of the month.

Sorry for the delay with February's - it's been a bit of a crazy month or two for all of us with one thing and another (including a certain someone weaving a bit of magic themselves by having a surprise wedding...!)

February's word is Magic

our next community project....

We are still a little gobsmacked at how amazing the response has been on Flickr with submitting images and talking!  We love the talking!! Thank you so much for joining in with our first community project 'From our hearts'.... and now we have our next project for you all to sink your teeth into!

For our second project the word is Birth

You can interpret this in any way, shape or form... you can be as literal or as abstract as you like.  You are more than welcome to add a little description too if you want but what we do ask is please could you take the photo for the particular project rather than finding an old image and applying it to the project.... we just want the projects to be about getting out there and shooting and feeling inspired to shoot using the word as a starting point.. :) Thanks!!

The project will run until the 31st March and again we will be showing a collection of submissions on the blog for all to see!

Have fun and I can't wait to see the results!

A completely non-related image below... just kinda like it....

A little movie... {Joanna}

A film to me is as beautiful as a photograph and at times more, I used to make movies a long long time ago back at college.  Now I have my camera with a movie function on it I thought that I would give it another whirl and dive right in.  I recently watched ' the rear window';  I fell in love with the colours, the light and the simple notion that it was shot all within a very small space.  So I woke up this morning saw the sunlight and made this; here is my home... (btw I don't want you to think that  I am not lonely in my home I just liked the soundtrack it is 'Husky rescue')

My iphone is my sketchpad {Joanna}

For me it does not matter where you are, what camera you have got, it is about looking at the world around me and capturing it in some shape or form.  For those who know me you know how far behind at times with technology (I have one foot firmly in the past),  I used to have the oldest phone in the world a nokia which did not even have a camera on it.  It died and I was upset!  however I have moved on and I am the proud owner of an iphone 4 and wow I love it!!  It means that I can wander round listening to music and get inspired at the same time and take some photos wherever I am.  I love the flexibility of this it is so immediate and it inspires me, everyday I shoot things now thanks to this and when I see something then I can capture it, this iphone is like my sketch book, just noting down things that I see when I am out and about...