Twitter

hello, sorry i haven't posted anything for a while, it has been a hectic couple of weeks.

My latest blog post is about Twitter and one specific organization that I am following. Now me and social networking don't generally get on. However, the twitter account that I set up for college has been quite successful in my opinion, its not great but it is good for me.

Sometime in the week I noticed that whenever I retweeted something that was posted by peta I gained a new follower. So I decided to do some research on peta, I think it is amazing the work that they do, however, it has made me feel a little bit guilty. It makes me feel guilty when you watch numerous videos showing how dairy cows are treated and the video ends by saying be vegan or something like that. It makes me feel guilty because I do not have the will power to be a vegetarian or a vegan and that millions of animals suffer because of people like me.

I would like to think that even people that are not   vegetarians or vegans can help the welfare of animals, help the way that they are treated.

I hope this post hasn't been to much of a downer. Also, if you feel strongly about animal welfare and our environment, please give peta and WWF a follow on twitter and support them in which ever way you see fit. I am currently looking into the different way in which I can support these organisations.

Thanks for reading,
Paige M Dyball

The Potential Shot of the Year 2014

2 Years ago I used to carry a camera around with me everywhere I went (in fact the camera never used to leave my bag unless I was taking a photo or the camera was charging). I used to carry a camera around with me cause you never know what's going to happen and it could be a potential shot. It wasn't until about 2013 that stopped carrying a camera around with me because I never found anything to photograph.

The week commencing the 27th October 2014 I carried my camera around with me everywhere I went that week (see previous Bournemouth and surrounding area posts) apart from Friday 31st October because the plan was just to go shopping in Bournemouth. However because it was a nice day, everyone decided to walk through the gardens and to the beach. Whilst walking through the gardens we noticed a slight crowd gathering looking at a patch of grass, when walking past the crowd and looking through the gaps we saw a hawk eating a live pigeon. So we found a open space and watched the hawk.

Everyone was there taking photos with cameras and phones. A lot of people will be thinking, Why didn't I use the camera on my phone? Which is a very good question, because camera phones was a another reason why I stopped carrying a camera around with me because it was easier to take the photo and share it straight away. Now I did have a camera phone until I accidently broke the phone earlier in the year, I had to downgrade (quite a way) from a Nokia Lumia 820 to Nokia 3310. Most people will remember the Nokia 3310 but for all the young people that are reading google it and you will be amazed.

Thanks to my sisters fiancée I was able to borrow the photos that he took of the hawk to show all of you my 'potential shot of the year'.

Thank you reading my blog and I hope that you like the photos.

General Post

Hi All,

First of all I would like to apologise for not posting anything for a while, December is a long, difficult month which I hope that some of you would understand. Also, I hope you all had a good Christmas.

Since my last post December had come and now it is nearly gone and Christmas is over, yay (don't get me wrong I like Christmas but it is a drag). It is now time to welcome the New Year and make resolutions in which half of us will not keep (I will be the same) and wait patiently for the year to end.

Otherwise, personally all that has happened is that I have made a appointment for my next tattoo at the end of January, I have gotten my two broken cameras fixed, ordered some new photography equipment and spent time with my family and friends at Christmas.

Photography:

On the 18th December I had a photo-shoot for my editorial project. I decided to document the process of how a turkey is caught, killed and plucked. This photo-shoot went well until they denied me certain photographic opportunities which they said I could do before the photo-shoot was arranged. But enough about that before I anger myself about it again.

Also, over the next few weeks I will be doing blog posts on Smoke and Splash photography, Bokeh and HDR for my Digital Imaging project. If all goes well I am hoping to post them on/after Saturday.

I hope that you all enjoyed this post, my next post will be on 'My Potential Shot Of The Year' and 'New Year' where I will tell you my New Year's resolutions in which I will be making and breaking in January.

Thank You for reading

Burley

Burley is a little forest that is in the New Forest. We spend either a morning or afternoon there every year. Burley was (apparently) famous for witches and smugglers. The village consists of some little gift shops, a couple of pubs, a cider farm and obviously some residents. The best thing about Burley is the wild horses/ponies that roam around the village, its makes the village unique and slightly more beautiful.

Mudeford

As mentioned in my previous post we go crabbing at Mudeford every year. So this year I thought it would be a kind of good idea to try a document someone crabbing. It was meant to start with someone setting up the crabbing lines and the bucket and net. The person bringing up the line with a couple of crabs attached to them and the crabs being put into the bucket. And the final image would be of the crabs being released back unto the water. These photos didn't go to plan because I kept shaking because it was cold, I couldn't get a descent angle for the images and I just don't think that I had the right equipment. Here are the images that I managed to take capture, I will just have to try harder next year and then if that still doesn't work I will have to plan a shoot.

Also at Mudeford it has some bait shop and in front of them it is full of these lobster and crab cages which looks quite pretty but strange, I can't really find of any words to describe it but here a few photos that I have taken of them.

Bournemouth and the surronding areas

Here is a collection from our annul holiday Bournemouth. This holiday has been the same for the last 3/4 years. By "the same" I mean the same week, month, places and people. I apologise because I do not know the names of the places that are featured in this collection or if these places are actually apart of Bournemouth or not, so I am sorry it is due to a lack of research and geography knowledge on my part.
               The first part of this collection is actually of a new place that in the 3/4 years of this holiday we have never been to. It was quite a nice places with lovely views but I don't think that there is a lot do unless you own a boat or yacht.

The other place in the collection is new too. Every year we go crabbing in Mudeford (which will be a separate blog later on) and when you are crabbing you can see place a little bit into the water with all these beach huts on them.

York

I didn't get that many images at York. I arrived in York at 4pm on Friday 24th October but by the we had a little wonder around and had some dinner it was time to go the hotel, and we did spend a little bit of time in York on Saturday but didn't get that many photos because York seems to be consistently busy.
                         I do like York and I would definitely go back there and probably live there after one days visit. However, one day is not enough to explore such a lovely city. I did find York quite confusing to get around, and it seemed that you will always walk down the same streets but you would 5 other streets so you would probably miss the shortcuts and the places that you want to go. But I might probably think this because it was a new place and I didn't get chance to see most of it.

The Image was taken on the bridge around the corner from Clifford's Tower.

York minster is such a impressive piece of architecture (I don't think that my photos did it any favours). The photos were taken the Friday night that we was in York, the next day we went back to York minster because my nan wanted to see it in the daylight and she wanted to inside as well. We didn't go inside York minster in the end because there was quite a long queue (we was on a time limit so to say)  and we thought that we had to pay get into York minster when they normally ask for donations inside. I don't think that cathedrals should charge people to go into building, I know that they are old buildings and that money is needed to help preserve the building and to keep it going but people will always give to cathedrals, when we went to the St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh there was donation boxes around and there was quite a lot of money in them and you had to donate £2 to take photos plus a little gift shop section. Mentioning gift shops we did go into the York minster gift shop, I would like to apologise for the rubbish story that I am going to tell you now but it does make me chuckle.  All day in York I was looking for a lighter that said York on it (because I am weird and collect lighters, pens and pencils but they all will be used so not a complete waste of time and money) but we couldn't find one anywhere. Whilst in the York minster gift shop my mother turned to me and said "you might get a York lighter in here" and I think my response was "so condemn the smokers but ere have a light". Anyways here are my photo of York Minster.

I like to that sub-consciously that I didn't take that many photos and the quality of them is rubbish because I want to go back in the near future to do some more exploring, and while I'm up that way to go and see the angel of the North. I did see the Angel of the North but it was like, there it is, and a minute later, there it goes. So to summarise, No photos/rubbish photos = a reason to go back up North.