First things first, she got in the river didn't she? Go big or go home. It always starts with a "I could get over there couldn't I?" - she easily could until she threw me her glasses so she could put on her shades, but a bad thrower and a bad catcher are not a good mix and the poor specs fell into a deep part of the river, so she ditched her shoes and sacrificed her socks. Sorry again Eve!


A lot of the afternoon consisted of neither of us really knowing what we were doing, but I did my typical thing and used my 50mm lens and got some greenery in the foreground out of focus for that narrow depth of field that I love. I snapped away, trying to keep Eve in focus as she moved around, mainly pratting about which was very funny for us both, but it gave us some nice shots of her laughing.



By the river where was a patch of tall white flowers. I say patch because it wasn't big enough to be a field, but it was still big. Any way I encouraged Eve to go in a little bit so that there were some flowers in front of her as well as behind. This was my favourite little scene from our impromptu shoot - friends, come and take photos in flowery fields with me.




A bit of another "I can get on that" moment. Again, she threw her glasses to me and they fell in the long grass. Seriously, that stump reached our hips, that grass is loooonnggg! It was my turn to reach in for them and hope there were no stinging nettles. This was a little difficult for me as she was up high and I do like having something close so that I can get a depth of field, so I got down low and tried to focus on Eve from all this long grass...


this one was actually an accident but I really like it, it's different from all the others and there's just something about it which I really like but I can't quite pin why, but here it is anyway.

I took this one with the wide lens, looking up into the flowers, but the hint of wind made the photos difficult as everything blew around and made it hard to focus.

I think the macro lens if one of my favourites because it shows you all the little details you may not always notice when simply looking yourself, like the pollen inside this flower...

Or the veins and texture of this bright red leaf.

Another reason why I like the macro is because it makes the smallest things look huge, these buds are so small in reality!

I managed to get this one quick snap of a bee bumbling about the hedge before he flew off again.

Daisies, along with other wildflowers, are my favourite because they grow everywhere so it's pleasant to see them around no matter where you find yourself.

Ooh yeah, look at that macro on all that daisy.

I do love a good dandelion. Why is it so fun to essentially, blow a flower to pieces? We may never know.

The other week me and dad went on a long walk and I blew a dandelion and thought to myself "these will look amazing on macro" and I'm so glad there was one in my garden that I could take photos of.

Do let me know which ones are your favourite, and as ever share with me some of your photos or favourite photography bloggers. I do hope you enjoyed, I hope to find more things to photograph during spring so do keep and eye out or even let me know what sort of photo-shoot themes might look cool this season.

Why hello there dear reader! I planned a couple weeks ago to do a little monthly favourites post in true "female blog/vlogger beauty guru" style, so I just picked out a few random items I have been enjoying a lot this month. Some are old faves but most things I shall talk about are new to me this month and I have been loving them a lot so I thought I'd just share them and maybe it can lighten up your month too. Let me know if you like this and I might try to make it an occurring post this year as a sort of project type thing, I already have found some new things to be my favourites in February hehee.

I'm not sponsored by anything at all, everything that I will say I enjoy in a few seconds is purely because I just LAVE it! I enjoyed trying my hand at some cheeky product photography too, I laid my fluffy white dressing gown onto my bed for the background and borrowed my brothers small lamp as it's brighter than mine. But do excuse the shoddy job, the first picture I took was great and I was really chuffed but lets just say the photos got increasingly shite as the little shoot went on. I should start investing in some lighting stuff if this continues on. Anyway let us begin.


 Firstly, Nivea skincare which I absolutely adore since it helped soothe and fix my face when it blew up back a day because I think I'm allergic to liquid make up. The night cream is my favourite this month because I use it every single day, after I've washed and cleansed my face before I go to bed. And pretty much every day I wake up and my face still feels moisturised and I don't feel like I need to use the day cream. If I'm going out I put on their primer before putting on make up which is incredible too. I love the pot it comes in aswell, it's probably about the size of my palm and it lasts well. I put one finger in and swirl it around once and put a "fingerprint of cream" on my forehead, one on each cheek and one on my neck and a little goes a long way. I prefer their pink dry skin versions of whatever product they have but I find the "normal" blue night cream works fine for me too.