12th June 2013 - A Day In Derby

Went to Derby with Jason to pick up a few bits from his he'd left behind. But first we walked to Derby Uni to take some photos. There were a few damselflies amongst the reeds at the side of the pond.

I tried another shot using the Brenizer method, but again it didn't quite work out... I will get it right one day!

Jason continued to take pictures of damselflies and red spiders and I sat in the middle of the nearby road taking more photos.

Jason started taking photos of me sitting in the middle of the road and attempted a Brenizer style photo himself, but the light changed halfway through he shots so his photo has random lighter patches on it. I decided then that I wanted to try and take a selfie (despite choosing not to pick up my tripod before we left) and made Jason sit in position while I set up the shot.

At this point it started raining pretty hard so I abandoned the shot in fear of damaging my camera and we sat inside for a while where we met a couple of Jason's friends. When it died down, we left to go to his and on the way out I saw a snail and decided to photograph it.

We passed a church on the way and I took photos of the roses outside it.

We got his stuff and headed back to Sheffield.

8th June 2013 - Last Day In Scarborough

Today was my last day in Scarborough with Leigh-Anne. We had a lazy start to the day. We slept in late and then lounged about in our pyjamas for a few hours. After lunch, we decided to go down to the sea front to take some photos.

I stood in front of the sea and flipped my hair about for Leigh-Anne - you'll be able to see this soon, once she's fixed her laptop - and I took a few pictures of her and the view. I attempted the Brenizer method, but I didn't have enough crossover between my shots and Photoshop couldn't knit it together properly.

I'll be giving it  another go soon.
On the way back to her flat, we stopped by in a park and took some photos of the flowers.

Had a hell of a journey home. My train from York to Sheffield was delayed by an hour and half after a fatality on the track literally five minutes in front of us. I ended up taxi-ing across Wakefield to get a different train. It stopped at literally every stop and was full of drunk people. I eventually got into Sheffield about 11pm, where I met Jason. He'd been waiting there for me since half 8...