This spring I was lucky enough to visit Helsinki for the best part of a month. Helsinki is a beautiful city with lovely people who thankfully speak English really well – my Finnish is abysmal! There are endless beautiful buildings with a very strong art nouveau influence. Finland is the home of Angry Birds and (for those who remember them) the Moomins. I saw an excellent exhibition in the National Gallery of Tove Jansson which celebrated 100 years since her birth.
Continuing the theme of creating portraits of the family, here are a few shots of my grandmother. I hope you like them as much as we do!
My latest project is to attempt to take portraits of everyone in the family. It is funny really that I take so many pictures and yet we don’t have nice photographs of family members! The photographs below are of my brother and his lovely fiancée. The photographs were taken whilst we had a picnic on …
I could sit in the garden and photograph bees and other insects all day. Is it just me that thinks that they all seem to have characters of their own? I love how the bees seem to get themselves covered in pollen, mucky pups! Here are a few of my insect images. If anyone has an …
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage was a beautiful thatch, unfortunately it had rather a lot of stairs! Although the wheels prohibited me from entering the house, a very nice woman sat outside in the wonderful sunshine and gave a quick history of the building so I didn’t feel too left out. All the gardens and woodlands were very …
Whilst in Stratford-Upon-Avon, I had to visit Shakespeare’s Birthplace. Amazingly, it was possible for me to manoeuvre my wheels around the ground floor of this very old building and everyone was very helpful. The guides didn’t even mind when I clipped the corner of the rogue stone step that poked out in a very awkward …
These photographs were taken during a recent trip to Stratford-Upon-Avon Butterfly Farm. I don’t think I have ever seen so many butterflies. The trick was to look down often enough to spot them sitting in the middle of the path! They were extremely friendly and seemed to like sitting on anything; flowers, benches, your camera, …