Let me reintroduce myself

Not entirely sure where or how to start this….

For the fear of writing another post that i do not post i shall try keep this short.

Ever since just after my 23rd birthday last year (august) i went on a little road trip/cruise to and around london for a big car show. Managed to stay up very late and didnt get home until around 8:30am the next day.

In between then and now i somehow have some kind of strange infection in my eyes it started off with an itchy eye, from there i went 100% blind for a little over a month.

As you can tell i can see alot better to what i could back then due to the fact im on here and you are reading this. 😀

Im still far from better and i havent driven my car for around 8 months now which for anyone that knows me knows how much thats sucks to me.

Somedays i can see okay and others not so good but still blurry and focusing on certain things is very hard, hence why i havent been on here nor picked my camera up to take pictures in a while which is really starting to get me down now. But as i just said i feel i can see a little better at the moment so i am going to cherish that and update my wordpress.

Sorry for the lack of images, posts etc lately i hope you understand.

I wont bother with any plugs this time round because nothing has been updated.

Thankyou for tking time to read this and i hope you have a great rest of the day.

Finally if you have any questions or constructive critisim please dont hesitate to send me an email (link below).

—MeMyselfAndPhotography—

Few Things.

welcome to my newest blog post which will be semi short but sweet.

I hope you are all having or had a great day.

Recently i done a few drawing compilations but currently have no pictures of them (will try get some soon) but i have a picture of my most recent drawing which im really rather happy with.

Please let me know what you think of this as i am quite happy with this one.

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Thank you

P.s dont worry i havent forgot about the pictures of my walk around the two lakes from the other day im still working on them and havent even checked the video footage yet as just havent had time!

Chris Coles – MeMyselfAndPhotography

Much Update Many Wow.

Hey!

I am back for an update sorry its been a few days lots has been going on. Now im sure as everyone is aware im not overly great at getting down what I want to say and I have so many things ill probably miss lots of things and expand on other a little too much and blubber on a little so sorry in advance.

But hey im back for another update and as anyone that has been following or knows me personally will know that it was my birthday on Wednesday just gone (19th Aug). I turned 23 and it was a bloody awesome, my mum had to work but my sister and girlfriend had time off work. so I started the day with a bad belly ache due to dancing around like a nutter then ‘shot gunning’ a can of monster, (not recommended especially just after waking up and an empty stomach) but whilst I was fighting my belly ache I opened a couple of my presents that my sister and girlfriend brought me. I got some cool t-shirts and general deodorant and shaving stuffs which was cool but …… my girlfriend had been telling me for at least 2 months that I would love my present and I kept guessing even though I knew she wouldn’t tell me and deep down I didn’t want to know but you know what its like. anyway I opened the main present from her if you like and IT’S A FREAKING GOPRO !!!!! I didn’t know what to do im rubbish at reactions like that so I instantly covered my face and never before to my knowledge have I teared up over a present but I did a little I was so happy and excited because ive wanted one for years and I finally had one.

After this we all got ready and headed down to a local cafe for some lunch taking our time with everything because there simply wasnt a rush for anything. it was a very nice relaxing time and we had some lush food. after this we went back to mine and had a little play with the go pro and the settings etc + got it charged up for later as I knew we was going out for dinner to a pizza hut restaurant that I took her to on one of our first dates.

Now I had a feeling that something was going on as previously two of my friends was joking around saying that they would meet up and have lots of fun without me whilst im out at dinner and of corse I bit the bait and said I will probably be out later for a little bit.

Got all my new clothes on (skinny jeans, t-shirt, socks etc) feeling good set up my go pro in the car and off we went to pizza hut. once we arrived we entered the venue and instantly I felt something was off so I prepared myself as we was walked round the corner I spotted one of my friends sitting at a big long table at the back of the room then I saw the rest of them all sitting there and I was blown away with everything my amazing girlfriend had done for me. It was a great night we had a good time I also filmed a tiny bit whilst we was there.

so anyway after this (baring in mind im skipping out a few parts to try to shorten this story down a little) one of my 2 of my friends decided to stay out for a little and just chill and because we got helium balloons from the restaurant they inhaled them and I filmed their funny voices.

THEN IT HAPPENED……

I was messing around with the GoPro mount on my rear view mirror and took the mirror part off to see better once I had attached the mount better I tried to re fit my rear view mirror part knowing all the time how easily a windscreen could break from fiddling with the rear view. What happened ….. you guessed it my bloody windscreen broke, on my birthday too. But because it was my birthday I was still high on happiness so wasnt too fussed. I took a slower than normal drive home which didn’t do much for the crack as my car is very low and as a result the suspension is rather stiff so the crack got a little bigger on the way home.

The next day I was scratching my head all day about what to do because I didn’t want to go through insurance as I was under the impression I would have lost my no claims however this wasnt the case so I rang up insurance and sorted a replacement for the very next day (friday). which is great and the people who fitted it was very nice and did a good job however that was expensive enough to put me totally out-of-pocket so I currently have no money but I do have a new windscreen even if I did lose my windscreen stickers 😦

It looks a lot different now as it would but im still in the paranoid stage of my windows leaking as its been raining almost two days straight here now, but its holding up just fine.

Shout out to Autoglass (never thought id say that!)

As we skip forward a little ill try keep it a little more brief, again sorry for the blubbering but hey its my first blog im learning okay be nice :D.

It was a nice day on saturday in fact it was rather hot so my and my girlfriend went and took a few pictures near 2 different lakes the first one we went to is like what we like to call our peace ‘get away’ spot where we go when we are stressed out and just need to relax. so as I said we went there first and of course took the go pro also and we took lots of pictures and some video footage which as of right now im not entirely sure if you can upload videos here but I will find out.

Would also like to say sorry as I currently havent edited the pictures or video from when we went to these lakes as of yet but as soon as I get a minute to do so ill post them up here I promise!!

After we were done at this location we met one of our friends for a walk down a more localised lake which was a lovely walk again got some cool pictures and also filmed a very funny MTV cribs spoof funny thins with one of the bird watching houses we found. I also at one point lost my camera lens cap but luckily had only fallen off a few feet behind me. As I said when I have edited some of the pictures I will post them here to explaining them a little maybe and will try get some video onto here if possible.

If you have read this far and fancy being mentioned in my next available blog post and on my instagram then send an email to memyselfandphotography@outlook.com with your best shot of a lake that you have taken yourself. Winner will be replied to via their email to get their instagram name.

If you enjoy reading my blogs please let me know in the comments below or even email me with things I could improve on. should I keep them short or try an elaborate more on them ?

Let me know.

I hope you enjoy thank you very much for reading.

Chris Coles – MeMyselfAndPhotography

Short But Sweet.

Hello,

just a super quick update as im currently at one of those stages where you have soooo much to talk about you don’t know where to start and if you carry on too long you will end up jabbering on about absolutely nothing for ages, which don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with that and I do it quite often however I just don’t have the energy today as it’s currently 3:44am and I need to get some sleep as I have a few things planned for today.

I have done a few more drawings lately which I am very happy with most of them aren’t totally finished yet however when I have more time I shall take a picture and upload here for everyone to see. I’ve also started to try to colour in one of my drawings with pencil which is probably easy as pie for anyone else however ive just not ever been very good at it, and no I don’t mean I struggle to colour in the lines !!! (LOL)

oooohhhhh I finally decided to install windows 10 today and so far so good I quite like it as it’s not as bad as I was being made to think.

I have so many little things to talk about but I feel like this blog is boring anyone that reads it and no one ever gets to the end so I shall try to keep the topics to a minimum for now until I get better at ‘blogging’.

It’s my birthday tomorrow (19th Aug) I will be 23 years old and im still as excited as I was when I was ten im just better at hiding it now I guess.

Today I have many things to do such as ….. Take the girlfriend to work and my sister to college in Northampton as she has an exam for her apprenticeship, its only going to be around an hour-long so I decided I would stay in the town on my own until she is done. I think I am going to take my Nikon d3200 along and take a walk around the local park and try to get some cool snaps however im not sure as the more I think about it the more anxious I get about being on my own especially with my camera but I will try my best if not for the images for this blog but for myself 🙂

Thank you very much for reading once again.

If you would like to wish me happy birthday then you can do either in the comments or drop me an email at memyselfandphotography@outlook.com.

P.s when I am spell checking this before I post I notice I use the letter ‘I’ an awful lot, is this annoying?

Also im not very good with promoting this blog,using categories etc so if anyone could help me with that 😀

Chris C. – MeMyselfAndPhotography

Long Time.

Hey, haven’t been on here in a long time.
If anyone really reads this then I am sorry I have been slacking as things in my life have been up and down (many downs) lately and if I’m totally honest it’s not looking up too much at the moment but I am trying to make things better for myself as if you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Due to still not having a permanent job I am going to try and post at least once every day, so sorry in advance for any jibberish but hey welcome to my life :).

I am currently writing this on my HTC one m8 and its nearly 3.am at this time.

I decided to try a 365 photo project but was thinking I should start it on new years day however that’s a long time away so I’ll either start it sooner or I have been setting myself little lists of ‘x’ amount of different ideas for pictures so I’ll get stuck into that. My only problem is lately I feel stuck with my photography because I can’t travel to far at the moment I am very limited also extremely nervous/anxious person so I don’t go out for no reason on my own barely ever but I am trying to work on that and I feel that I would benifit from some form of photography course in the near ish future but in the mean time I’m watching a lot of photography tutorials and researching all sorts of different things.

It’s my birthday soon !!!!

Here’s a picture or two I took on my Nikon d3200 edited with Adobe Photoshop express on my windows 8.1 desktop then added to Facebook, saved onto my phone.

If you have read this far comment “my faviourate colour is 9” just for fun.

(i need editing lessons and a better monitor + faster computer)

This second picture hasn’t been edited at all just been put through the same process as stated above just without the Adobe express part.

Please please please if you have any advice tips etc or have any software to reccomend please comment on here or send me an email on memyselfandphotography@outlook.com

Thanks for reading.

Chris C.

General Life Update.

Hello World,

Chris here to bring you another update on whats going on in the life of MeMyselfAndPhotography.

I have updates!!

I love Lego i mean c’mon who doesn’t, ive had a Lego creator box since christmas that i hadn’t even opened so when i had a spare hour i decided to build it up. It was a selection of 3 different models that i could make with the pieces so i decided on this one.

At this point i would just like to say that the quality of these images may not be to great however they are only for reference.

This then sparked my ‘i want to build Lego’ ego and i dug out my old vw camper Lego model that i have built.

it was a little dusty so i decided to dismantle the whole thing and start from scratch, which i did and started going through the 2 rather thick booklets. 5 or so hours and many small pieces later i had this.

I will probably post more pictures of these soon if people are interested as this vw camper has a lot of detail especially inside!

Next update is …

I’m going back to college, well kind of ive been enrolled in a small 3 days course for basically building my confidence up.

I have also been and re registered with a previously registered agency really not to happy about working for/through an agency however you can’t live on hopes and dreams right? well not straight away anyway.

I also looked online last night for some photography courses i.e part time, weekend, night courses and to my surprise i found some that look quite promising. now obviously this isn’t something that i can just do and do due to the lack of funds available but it is an aim of mine as i would love more than anything to at some point in my life work for myself/self-employed and have photography implemented into that somehow.

Im also looking for some help with processing images i.e what software to use, helpful hints and tips so if anyone has any free time at any point and feels kinda and generous to lend me an hour or so to help me with such things please get in touch with me either through the comments here or direct email: memyselfandphotography@outlook.com

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Another thing …

I have been slacking on the whole bike riding front lately as either just not had the time or its been rubbish weather i know these are poor excuses but i will get back out there as soon as i can. My bmx also went to my dads work yesterday to hopefully in next few weeks have a new coat of paint. (matte yellow) Should be a nice difference from the plain black it use to be.

Once my bmx is done and built back up ill hopefully have a little money to have fixed my car and get it back on the road so i will looking to travel far and wide to ride skate parks and mostly want to get back into dirt jumping and of course travel for my photography so if anyone has any suggestions on where to check out please let me know, again either via the comments section or email me directly at: memyselfandphotography@outlook.com

Next thing i would like to do is take some time to add an about me page to my blog which i will look at doing as soon as i get some spare time to do so.

I came across a YouTube video about making these frozen water balloons and it looked totally awesome so i decided to give it ago however i only had a tiny bit of food colouring left and the whole thing didn’t really work out to great however i did manage to get one picture of it which i shall post below so you can see what im taking about if you havent seen the video before.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read my blog i really appreciate it.

Finally i would like to post a few images of some drawings ive been doing lately im not very good at shading so ive opted for the colouring pen route which hasn’t gone to great on some of them but i still quite like them. Please leave your feedback in the comments.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any help, tips, tricks etc.

I will leave you with another image or two i grabbed the other day.

! Thank you !

..MeMyselfAndPhotography..