Two whole years.

Good morning, afternoon and evening.

Firstly I’d like to start off by saying I’m posting this via my mobile. Secondly I would like to simply say sorry for not posting in a while I’ve been going through a lot with family things and events to dealing with my depression and eyes. I won’t go into too much detail as its really not something I want to get into but my eyes haven’t been to great atall lately and hence no posts I have another appointment with the specialist in May so hopefully he has some ideas but a little while ago I visited an amazingly beautiful place called st. Crispins I took a few pictures which I shall share and talk about when I can. But the main reason for this post today is one because I can just about see well enough but also because today my and my girlfriend (Natasha Connely) have been together Two Whole Years.

I am not one for descriptive writing or in depth explanation as much as I’d like to be I end up blabbering on so I’ll keep this short. I also have a short poem that I’d like to share at the end of this post.

Natasha thank you , just for being you.
You have been there for me through the good times and the rough times and yes we’ve had our fall outs and arguments but who doesn’t . We always have a giggle and you always care for me you have the biggest most caring heart and you deserve the world.

Yes you sometimes snore like I’ve never heard but that’s just you and I wouldn’t change you for the world.
I would just like to say a personal from the heart thank you Natasha for, simply, everything and I love you to the moon and back. 💛🙉

Poem:
You’re the one I can’t live without
This fact is true, I have no doubt
I love the way you smile at me
I love the way together we’re free
You may be strange and slightly loony
But all this means nothing to me
Because you are who you are
And I can see your beauty
Inside and out
Which is what threw me

When everyday I see you
Till then I cannot wait
To know what we will go through
Are in the hands of fate
The first time that I saw you
I knew I must steal your heart
I hope that it’s mine for ever
And that we never do part

You are the one I love the most
And to this here fact I propose a toast;
May we grow old and still have fun
Because I love you and my heart you’ve won.

Natasha also started her own WordPress blog a few days ago and has already written her first post. If you have a few minutes go and check it out and let her know how awesome she is.

feeltheflowblog.wordpress.com

Thank-you for reading…
MeMyselfAndPhotography

All out of sync

Another super quick message just to say sorry for not content for the next few days and also if you follow me on facebook or instagram (private accounts) I apologize for the obscene amount of depressing stuff on them. I’m currently going through a super tough  time for myself and I don’t talk to anyone so have to let it out somehow. Normal service will resume shortly. I appreciate your patience.

Thank you.

Splash

Good morning,afternoon or evening!

I hope your all having a wondeful day and everything is going well for you.

Today i would like to talk about something i tried recently for the third or so time and that is water photography.

I have had a interest in this type of photography for a while now and have tried it a few times previous but could never get it right or i was never happy with the out come. I blamed it on the fact that i dont have enough light and/or the fact i wasnt very good at it due to the fact of being very new at it and also only having the cameras flash, a warm coloured desk light and a small lense mountable ring flash.

However recently i was visiting my dad and noticed he had a small ish fish tank that wasnt currently in use so i asked to borrow it and that day i went home cleaned it out, but by this time is was quite late in the day and so i decided becasue i have trouble sleeping anyway i would use try use this to my advantage as it would give me something to think about to try help me get to sleep. So i searched through many different videos on youtube watching other peoples attempts and then whilst trying to sleep thought about how i would do it myself.

The next day i got up filled the tank with water and placed everything how i wanted, sorted out the settings on my camera for what i thought i would need and started to shoot different things such as, i have 10 lego characters that i wanted to use and at one point i also put my go pro into the water.

As you can imagine i had a fair few shots that were a total waste or did not even capture the image atall due to learning the speed and timing but after a short while of me changing things around i finally managed to capture some what i believe are really cool images.

I will share one or two of them here below although they have not yet been altered in anyway (brightness, contrast etc).

It would be greatly appreciated if you could give me some feedback on the images and let me know what you think of them and or what i should try next or look out for in the future.

Thankyou very much for taking your precious time to read today and i hope to hear from you soon weather it be in the comments or on one of the social media sites.

Also just an FYI for anyone thats interested hopefully some time in the near future i will be creating my own instagram page for memyselfandphotography, so keep an eye out for that one poping up.

Thanks again and as always if you have any questions or feedback its all greatly appreciated.

Hope you all have a great rest of the day, and remember tomorrow isnt promised so that idea you have right now… act on it and make things happen.

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I had an idea.

Good morning afternoon or evening depending on where or when your reading this.

Ive recently developed a great interest in all things timelapse and i was thinking….

How about maybe once a month i have people send in their faviourate/best timelapse to my email and ill feature my faviourate the following week explaining why i like it so much etc?

Just an idea i think it could be really cool i love sharing creative ideas and peoples amazing concepts. Now of corse this will not work without you guys and girls sending in your timelapses so have a think let me know what you think and send in your timelapses.

If you could also share either my blog or just this post about potentially sending in timelapses that would be awesome becasue the more interst we get on this the better it will be.

I want this to work and think it could be a really cool thing to do but i cant do it with out your help.

Let me know what you think?

Hope you all have a great rest of the day, and remember tomorrow isnt promised so that idea you have right now… act on it and make things happen.

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Q/A time.

Hello one and all i hope your having a lovely day.

Today i decided although i dont have many followers/readers for this blog currently, that i would offer up a potential Q/A time in the next week or so if anyone is interested in anything (within reason) about my life situation or what camera i have etc then please leave a comment below on this post or the usual drop me an email or dm on instagram (links will be below)

If this gets enough interest i may make it into a regualr thing like maybe once a month what do you think?

Personally i think for the first few i will answer them the best i can in a blog post with the potential to be filmed in the future depending on weather i can get over my anxiety and fear of being on camera, maybe thats something you guys could help me towards.

Or on the other side of things if your fed up of me talking about my personal encounters etc and are only interested in the photography side then tell me, let me know so you can help me become better.

Thankyou once again for your time, Until next time

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How do you edit yours?

Welcome back,

Super short today i just uploaded some pictures from my walk around yesturday and was thinking how i should go about editing them if atall (brightness, exposure etc), which got me thinking what software does everyone else use?

I can’t currently afford photoshop or lightroom however i have the free version of both and also have a mixture of other free editing apps for my computer but i also have a few free apps such as snapseed and vsco on my htc phone.

I Find myself wanting to add my jpeg files to dropbox then export them onto my phone and edit them on however, i am worried that this will depreciate the quality far too much as my eyes are already  making it hard enough !!

Would or even do you edit on your phone often if atall? and what software do you reccomend/use on your computers?

Any advice/guidance will be greatly appreciated just drop me a comment or send me an email. (link at the bottom of the page)

Im not very good at editing images anyway but i want to be so please dont be too harsh on my images i am trying and i will get better with time and pratice.

Thankyou for taking your time to read this and as always if you have any questions please dont hesitate to ask, also go give my instagram a little love if you have a spare few minutes.

P.s anyone know where the spell check has gone from wordpress ?

Lastly before i go…. I just want to say a huge thankyou to the small amount of people that are following me/read my blog at the moment as i know im not the best, yes i make mistakes in spelling maybe my pictures arent all that great etc but i am learning and your in the journey with me and for that i really appreciate it so thankyou.

Two final questions…

Im looking for a new theme for my wordpress can you reccomend one ?

Is there a way i can make my ‘media’ page into physical albums to first click onto to open up a certain selection of pictures?

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Getting back into the swing of things.

Hey everyone I hope your having a good day weather its morning afternoon or night.

I’m just sat in my front room waiting for some food to cook and thought I’d share my experience today.

The last few days have been really hard with depression and my eyes playing up but my wonderful girlfriend helped me through it last night and today we decided to take a walk around the lakes near my house. I reluctantly took my camera although I can’t focus of things very well that’s what auto focus is for right?

Anyway I only managed to take a few pictures due to it being so bloody cold but I took a shot on my HTC One m8 and I just had a little play with the adjustments in an app called snapseed and I really liked the image so I thought I’d share it on here.

I hope it looks as good as I see it as again I can’t focus on things very well at the moment.

Constructive criticism is welcome and as always if you have any suggestions or questions etc please either drop me a comment or email at memyselfandphotography@outlook.com

Today I have felt slot better than I have the last few days I just hope I can make it last and really get back into photography this year and work on my anxiety so I’m not so scared all the time.

Anyway thanks for taking time out of your day to read this I really appreciate it.

Take care everyone and I’ll see you next time.

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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).

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This sucks!

Hey guys,

Just a quick one to let you know that once again there won’t be many posts for a little bit due to I currently have conjunctivitis.
It literally sucks so bad, never had it before to my knowledge but I have been to the doctors he told me to go hospital so I did whilst I was there I managed to get a parking ticket which I cannot currently afford so I’m going to get into with yet another company 😦 yay …. Not happy.

But apparently it’s quite a bad case I’m currently struggling to see out of one of my eyes but can’t keep it closed or open, gahh it’s a long story but basically I’m super struggling atm so taking some time away from this and hopefully I’ll be better soon as it’s been around 3 weeks so far and I’m really starting to sturggle.

Thank you for reading.

Chris C.

Short Story #2

Hey everyone !

I hope your all having a great day and everything is going well for you.

Today we have another super awesome short story from my amazing girlfriend and I wanted to once again share this with everyone. Please let us know what you think of these and whether you would like more of these in the future. don’t forget to leave a comment below or send me an email if you have any questions or suggestions.

Here it is:

Am I able to do whatever I want?

I mean, there are restrictions on everything you do in life but what if I really wanted to climb a mountain or start living under the sea?

These are the questions we should be asking ourselves every day. It is important to reach out and take what you want from this world. After all how long is this world going to be ‘our’ world? How long is it before we discover that there is extra life out there and they are so intelligent that they take over? Building mansions made of moon rock and spawning young like they’re paid to do it.

We cannot carry on living without knowing. Isn’t it about time we branch out and start existing, instead of traipsing up and down cobble roads with our heads held low and the rain pouring doubt on our souls? No matter how many questions you ask in life it’s always about who can do it better rather than who wants to learn. People giving second chances to the rich and steeling hope from the poor.

We need to educate the creations of this world and make sure they grow until they are certain about what they want to do. None of this second guessing, having a false hope about how the world is going to sit you up on a crystal white cloud, when in reality they it chew you up and spit you out. People will make a fool out of you and they will undoubtedly hold your hand until your old enough to cross that road all by yourself. Then when it comes to it, you don’t know whether you are coming or going, living or just breathing.

Support is something we all long for and without it you’re just left wondering..

Am I able to do whatever I want?

Thankyou for reading!

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