The difference professional photograhy makes...

If you're my friend on facebook you would have seen this photo already - it was taken at the opening of the Common Threads Exhibition on Tuesday night. There were a couple of professional photographers there and one took a photo of us, its a pretty darn good photo - so good in fact I made it my new profile picture.

The photo is from the Matchbox Wellington facebook page and the photographer is a woman called Izzie Austin - her facebook page is here and her website is here. Her website is well worth checking out for her photo diary and self portraits.

Now if I can only convince her to come to my house and take photos of all of my sewing projects? 

Photography Course Photos

I do love photography, I am known by some of my friends as the "crazy camera lady" as I pretty much ALWAYS carry my camera. Sometimes I have two or even three cameras with me (in extreme cases).

Despite loving photography I have always felt I'm not particularly good at it, so when the chance came up on a one day deal website to do a one day photography course I jumped at the chance to do it.

The tutor was great, although I must admit camera envy as my main camera is still a little "point and click" camera and most people on the course had super huge and super fancy SLR cameras.

The course was taught entirely on the Wellington waterfront, which meant I ended up taking my photos somewhere that I spend a lot of my time, I am not sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing but in did help me to see one of my favourite parts of the city in a new light.

My favourite photos are the super close up photos - its not something I usually do when I am out and about with my camera but I really like them.