Coffee, Cross Stitch and Rebel Badges - Kelly's Ramblings: Photographer Badge

09 April 2022

9th April - Birbs!

Today was really full on but I had a fantastic time. Stints outside on the car park, on the admissions desk and a bit of wandering the site too.

I was able to go out to see the final falconry display of the day and took a load of photos for them.

I don't really have too much of an update short of the fact that the day went really well and I loved it!

After work, we walked Misty around the park and let her have a bit of a run with her ball too.

But yeah, not really much to share really, aside from a few of my favourite photos.

Today I'm grateful for...

My bosses. Again. The rota was arranged really well and the duty manager rearranged it for me to go out to the event as I wasn't due to see it today. I suspect I would have been on it tomorrow but I'm grateful to them for letting me see it today
My colleagues. I honestly don't think I'd enjoy my job even a fraction of how much I do if not for my colleagues. They make the day more fun.
Sunshine. The weather today was dry and mostly bright, though it did get cold. But being sunny meant the event felt like it went even better.
Booking a table for my birthday meal with my friends.
Seeing the birds today.

23 March 2022

Photographer Badge - Sequence

"Create a sequence of at least 4 related photos"

I had intended to use some pictures I took today while out for my daily walk. I spotted a robin that had found a worm.

Unforunately, I'm having issues with cropping the images so you can actually see the bird properly. And they're not the best sequence either.

So with that in mind, I remembered a sequence I took of my friend's child while we were away on a camp. (Yes, I have permission to use her photo 😊)

Hopefully I can use this to cover this aspect of the badge. A previous post should cover the exhibition, but if not I have made photobooks.

18 March 2022

One of the aspects of the Photographer Rebel Badge is to create an exhibition of at least 20 photos. I mean, individually they've all been digitally exhibited as part of proper in person exhibitions round the world. I just haven't got as high as being printed. Having said that, the first image in this compilation is the only one that's been included in an online magazine article.

Let me put this all into context. I saw an advert on Instagram for a photography game called Guru Shots. It's all a bit of fun, you upload photos based on a challenge theme to get votes. Other photographers will decide whether they like the images you've submitted. In certain challenges, the theme is for exhibitions. That's where these images ended up. I'm afraid it'd take me a long time going back through it all to find which exhibitions they were in or which challenge, but all the images reached the highest level or popularity, that is to say, in the top whatever percent. I've never won any of the challenges and only on a few occasions gotten into the top 30, 20 or 10%.

I had to stop playing last year because I couldn't trust myself to ignore the exhibition challenges. I was signed off to have spinal surgery and was off long enough to end up on half pay. The exhibition challenges have a payment to participate in the exhibitions and I didn't trust myself to just ignore the exhibition challenges and stick with the free ones.

But hey, I'm back at work now and returning to full pay this month so who knows? Perhaps I'll have more exhibited images coming in the future.

So I hope you like my images. They all have titles and where the images were taken and, if I remembered, when.

You may notice several of the images were taken at Royal Armouries Fort Nelson. I have most access to potential photography subjects there as it's where I work!