From Underneath The Stars, We Watch The Sky

yesterday this girl from australia worked out how to use her macro extension tubes properly.

she is happy!

she also was watering her plants and noted how pretty the water looked in the late afternoon sunlight. 

so she grabbed her camera, and the photos came out with amazing rainbows, sunflare and bokeh! 

New Addition To My Camera family! (and some creativeness)

i got my new, little baby today

he arrived in a little box which held him snug

he's so little!

my canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

check out how tiny it's cap is compared to the others

well it doesn't look that much different but when you hold it you can feel it's smallness!

these are the pics it takes (all 'sooc'):

my lovely mother ♥

my garden!

i bought the lens from ebay; it was $50 cheaper than if i had bought it in a shop! gotta love a bargain.

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i am now at the end of my 3 week summer holidays  :(    all my life i've had 7 weeks to enjoy the sunshine, beaches and icy poles, so i was a bit shocked when i learnt i only had 3 weeks! oh, the joys of having a job. 

slowly i have been moving things out of my room and into my caravan. I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF. and i'm not proud of it! mainly craft stuff, and things i can't part with. i'm badly sentimental with material things, tsk tsk. bad hannah. 

i've just went to a shop (apparently it's american so you mighta heard of it) called 'masters'. awesome place. they had cherry tomato plants, 2 for $1!! eeek! so cheap. bought 6.  

and- i really love indoor plants, and when i saw one with leaves that were 2 of my fave colours- green and purple- i just had to. had to bring it home. 

so beautiful.

that is me and my life at the moment. 

and now for some inspiration.

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get:

1 photoframe- 

{literally just the frame, 

chuck out the glass and the backing and the little, standing up thingy}

string/twine

minature wooden pegs

awesome little things

and make this.

ain't it gorgeous!

colours that i was gonna paint my caravan but then i decided not to

tag from Cotton On (more awesome bargains from there) and a feather from a bird

i'm sure you can work out how to make it.

TA DAH!

you now have an awesome thing to hang up.

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and to end off this little post, here's what i've been doing in my art book the last few days.

i drew my plant

attributes that are good to have... and good in a man you're considering marrying   :p

that's all from me today, have a nice day/sleep!

hannah xx

The Light Which He Provides (and a plea for help from photographers!)

Natural light and manual focus.

These are what I'm practising at the moment in my photos. 

But I want to know more.

I've had my SLR since May 2011, but there are still many things I don't know about it.

There are terms in photography that I've heard over and over again, but I don't know how to know when to do what setting.

Things like ISO, aperture and why in photo descriptions there is the letter 'f'.

Well I know that ISO means how much light is let in, and aperture means 'depth of field'...

I think?

Do you have any tips for me? I want to learn to to shoot manually. 

Are there any good places online where you can learn this stuff? Or is it better by trial and error?? How did you learn?

Be sure to comment and let me know your thoughts!!

Hannah xx

{P.s. All photos are SOOC, no editing done}