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Well, a long while ago now, back in November, after having a rather lengthy break away from drawing, I finally picked up my pencil once again and started working on, and finished, my drawing of the beautiful <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://luxehdwallpaper.com/wallpaper/2012/09/-Natalie-Portman-Monochrome-Hd-Wallpaper--.jpg" target="_blank">Natalie Portman</a></span>. After hours and hours of (what seemed to be) endless shading and rubbing little bits outs and sharpening my pencil again and again, I finally reached a point of completion. So, voila! Sorry it's taken me so long to post it here to show you all- life's really gotten away from me recently and my blog has suffered for it! I've even turned 20 in the time since I last posted (gosh, I feel old! It feels like I was only 16 going on 17 yesterday!) Well anyway, hopefully, I'll get back in sync and back into the habit of posting bits and bobs more frequently, soon. I've got lots of things stored on my hard-drive ready for me to sort through and post about, and I finally started a new portrait last week, so keep your eyes peeled for all of that soon! :) </div>
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Well, I won't keep you any longer- I've got a bajillion photos to sort through and edit, pictures to plan, draw and paint and I've got to cook my dinner, so I'll be off and let you get back to your Thursday, now. Oh, and I know it's been a <b><i>long</i></b> while since, but, nevertheless, I hope that you all had a wonderfully <b>Merry Christmas</b><i><b> </b></i>and I wish you all an extremely <b>Happy New Year</b> while I've been away! I hope you're all happy and well :) </div>
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Hello, you lovely lot! Sorry for being quiet for a little while- time's really gotten away from me recently! Well now, these are a few self-portraits that I've played around with in Photoshop, putting two polaroids (one of myself and one of something around/near me) together and seeing what I can come up with. I'm actually thinking of turning this into a little side-project of mine, experimenting every now and again whenever I take some more self-portrait polaroids. And, possibly in the future, I may be brave and go out and meet new people and take pictures with them to add some variety to it all? Hmm, ideas, ideas... :)<br />
Whenever I look at them, they sort of make me think of dreams, and old nostalgic memories, when everything's sort of hazy and surreal and beautiful. All soft and nostalgic and fading. Hopefully you like them! Okay, well, anyway, on a quick side note, I'm sorting out some more posts to share with you as I write this, some with some more polaroids and others with some digital work I've been doing recently, so hopefully you'll be seeing them all soon! I hope you've had a lovely week, that you have a good Friday and enjoy the weekend ahead of you, and that you are all happy and well! :)<br />
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Emily watching the sunset.</div>
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Here are the photos that I took while we were all on the ferry, going home across the Channel, from Normandy back to Portsmouth. It took about 6 hours to get back, and so, after getting settled and then having some dinner, Emily and I had plenty of time to go about our business while Nani and Grandad read and relaxed in our seating area :) After watching '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_(film)" target="_blank">Paul</a>' in the cinema, we went for a final wander around the ferry, eventually ending up on the top deck- my favourite place to be on ferry! Foolishly, I'd forgotten to bring a hair-band and so my hair went <i>everywhere</i> while Emily quickly ponytalied her hair and looked perfectly normal, especially in comparison to me, what with the sight of me standing next to her! In my mind's eye, I'd say I looked an awful lot like Mrs. Twit from '<i>The Twits</i>' by Roald Dahl. Oh dear, haha, what a sight I must have been...<br />
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Anyhoo, once I'd gone past the point of caring about the state of my hair, and Emily had stopped laughing at me, we found a spot facing out to the sea so that we could watch the sea and the sky go by as we talked about things and just chilled out. After a while, and after taking many pictures of the Isle of Wight as we neared Portsmouth, we got a bit chilly and so went back to Nani and Grandad for a little while. But, as soon as I saw a streak of deep pink in the sky, I persuaded Emily to come back outside with me so that I could take pictures of the sunset! And, voila!, these are the photos that I took that afternoon/evening on the ferry :) I hope you like them, and I hope you haven't got too bored or annoyed with my frequent blogging this week! Thank you for all of the lovely comments I've received about them :) it honestly means so much to know that people are actually seeing my pictures and actually liking them, so, from the very bottom of my heart, thank you! I really hope that you're all happy and well, and that you're all having a lovely day or evening, wherever you may be in the world!</div>
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Throughout the two weeks of staying at Cabellou, I'd longed to take pictures in the daisy field opposite our camp-site! Leaving it almost literally to the last minute, I finally braved it and went for a little wander with Emily with my digital camera, my film camera <i>and</i> my instax camera... I certainly came prepared for taking many-a-picture, haha, that's for sure! While we were out there, the sun started to set and, having always wanted to take photos with Em in a big field at sunset, I jumped at the chance and just went with the flow, taking lots of pictures as the sun slowly set. Together, we made a big daisy chain crown to wear and we just hung out together, singing a little and chit-chatting a lot, while I took lots and lots of pictures to make the most of actually being out in the field, surrounded by knee-high daisies! I hadn't taken very many, if any, pictures with my sister all holiday as well, and so I really wanted to capture some memories of us together in France for us to have and be able to look back on when we're older. I hope you like them and that you're having a lovely day :)</div>
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Love, Mari-ann <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">♥</span></div>
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On one of the days, our uncle came to visit for the day, which was really cool! And it was the perfect day, too, so we all decided to go and relax on a beach not that far from the camp-site. I'd packed a couple of underwater disposable cameras in my bag, in the hopes that we'd spend some time by the sea, and so I grabbed them and helped pack the car ready for a day at the beach. After everyone had gotten settled, reading under a rainbow umbrella, bathing in the sun, playing with the sand, I took a few pictures on my digital camera and then rested my eyes for a little while, just listening to the ocean. A while later, I wanted to go for a little walk, as did Emily, and so we ventured over to the rock-pools nearby. Wearing flip flops (in hindsight, probably not the <i>best</i> choice of footwear), Emmy and I went for yet another wander over to the rocks, clambering around, up and down, inspecting barnacles and collections of seaweed and many-a-rock-pool. :) I took these all as the day went by, climbing up to get a better view of the sea and the horizon, precariously perching and leaning out over the water at the very edge of the rocks to get pictures of the waves and the patterns that all of the seaweed was on the surface... just trying to get a picture of everything that was around us so that I would be able to recreate it all in my head in the future (well, now really!). That way, no matter where I might have been be, I could always have a moment of calm by the sea in my head to go to whenever I need to. :)<br />
It sounds silly, but I really love being by, and in, water so much, especially the sea, and I don't really have much of it where I live, (other that the Thames, which isn't the nicest water to swim in), so whenever I go on holiday and we get to go to the seaside, I really soak it all in and take a gazillion photos for me to remember it all later. Ah, I just love, love, love it! Actually, on that note, I'm actually trying to figure out a way for Emmy and I to go to West Witterings Beach, one of our favourite beaches here in England, so, who knows, I may have some new beach-y pictures to share with you all soon! Fingers crossed :) (although I shan't hold my breath, just in case...) Anyway, I hope you're all having a wonderful Monday!<br />
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These are all of the film photos that I took in and around our camper. I may be a little biased, but honestly I don't know of anybody's cooking that is as delicious or as wonderful as my Nani's! It is the best. I'm actually getting hungry just thinking about it... We ate like the French, and it was delicious. And, before bed, we'd always have a cup of hot chocolate and play a quick game, like dominoes, Pictionary or this French card game (sort of like 'Go, Fish' but for children and with pictures of fishermen, bakers, farmers, etc.) and it was so nice. :) Ah, nostalgia trip! Anyways, these pictures are sort of diary moments that I took to remember camping and living in Cabellou for a couple of weeks. It's funny how within such a short space of time, a place can really feel like home and how, sometimes, it almost hurts to leave somewhere that has become so familiar. Ah, I really loved it there! :)</div>
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Here are a few photos that I took out of my window on a car journey of the sky and the French countryside (or at least, as much of the landscape that you can actually see from the road and in a car). France is one of my favourite places in the world! I love it so much- the language, the people, the places, the architecture, the <i>food</i>, the landscape, the culture, the music, the films, the fashion... Ahh, basically everything!<br />
An annoying thing is that, despite learning French since I was about 4, I am still only able to have a awkwardly-stilted conversation about birthdays, bits and bobs about WW2, where you live, family/friends/pets, asking for directions, asking for your name, asking for food, I can tell you that I love you, that I hate you, that I have a headache, etc, and that's about it. 15 years of education just to be able to talk about that?! I mean, really! Gah, I hate my non-sponge-like brain sometimes for not absorbing everything about speaking French. I'd give almost anything to be fluent in French! Why, oh, whyyyy can't I be fluent in French?! Le sigh. (see what I did there? ;) haha, I'm such a loser.)<br />
Thinking about it, I have loads of photos from when I went to Paris when I was 16 that I have never posted anywhere! I'm going to have a look at them and see if I can do an insanely belated post about Paris. (<i>Ah, Paris, je t'aime!)</i> Ahem. Anyways, please excuse my rant about not being bilingual... It seems I got a little carried away. I hope you're having a lovely day :)<br />
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One afternoon, my grandparents, Emmy and I visited this small village of traditional French thatched houses, and while we were there, we went for a little wonder in search of this building down a path just past the village (I think it was a church but I can't remember?) which, in the end, we gave up looking for! But on the way to that elusive building/church, and through the little village, I took these few photos (I foolishly didn't bring a spare roll of film with me, just in case, and I'd forgotten that I'd shot a fair few things on film the day before, and so I used up my roll of film within about five to ten minutes of being there... that's why I don't actually have any pictures of the thatched houses, because I'd said to myself that I could take some pictures of them on the way back to the car, and, evidently, that was a bit of a fail on my part, haha.) of one of the houses' hydrangea bush, a couple of trees, a farmhouse that was draped in green and red leaves and a mossy stone wall. Nothing especially amazing, but still lovely and, I mean, it was all so picturesque and interesting that I just really wanted to take some pictures to remember it all. Ah, I miss France a lot! I hope you're all having a lovely day :)<br />
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One fairly cloudy evening, there was a bright, full moon rising over the daisy field and trees opposite our camp-site, and I was determined to try and capture it, and the night sky, on film. It didn't really go according to plan, fumbling around with my camera in the darkness, trying to hold my camera as still as possible (I'd forgotten my tripod, foolishly) and trying to manually focus on the clouds and stars (which I thought had failed at spectacularly), but nevertheless, when I got my film back a few weeks later, I was actually pleased to see that these few photos had survived that hectic disaster of an evening, so it hadn't all been for nothing, yay! I hope you've had a lovely day :)</div>
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Emily and I stumbled upon a huge sunflower field while having a little wander.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Sunny memories from last summer that I shot on 35mm film while I was in France with my family. :) I completely forgot that I hadn't posted them here- I'd been planning on posting them all after I'd finished posting all of my digital holiday pictures, and well, that was months ago so obviously that idea slipped my mind in a spectacular fashion, haha. Silly me! Well, never mind, here they finally are. I've decided that I am going to upload them all, bit by bit, so they won't be all jumbled and so that I won't bombard you with about 100 different photos of different things in one <b>massive</b> blogpost! (I think there'll be 7 or 8 posts, so I apologise in advance for spamming you with lots of posts at once!) I hope you like some of them and I hope that you're having a lovely day! :)</span><br />
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I took this photo yesterday morning (at about 1:45am haha, hence the title) :) I hadn't actually taken a self-portrait in a really long time, so I thought I'd break that streak and just take a simple photo, and this is what I came up with. The lighting was from my laptop screen and my bedroom light, so it's nothing special really, but I thought it looked kind of interesting! Typical me, I played around in Photoshop too much and ended up with these three versions of, effectively, the same photo. Also, of course, I am one of <i>the </i>most indecisive people in the world, so, after trying to choose which one to post for a good 20 minutes, I thought I might as well upload all of them and just show you what I came with. :) I hate to admit it, but I am actually quite happy with how they turned out! They're quite different to what I usually come up with natural lighting, I like the colours and focus, and the bottom pictures sort of make me think of stills from a film of some sort, which is pretty cool! (I am so easily amused.) </div>
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Well, as you may have noticed, I'm trying to be more active on here, and I'm also trying to get back into the habit of actually taking photos more often, because, other than the odd Polaroid (that I'll actually be posting here soon as well), up until a couple of days ago, I hadn't actually picked up my camera for a couple of months! I'd just been doing my drawings... But, oh well, onwards and upwards, I go! I hope you're all happy and well :)</div>
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They all got a bit jumbled around when I uploaded them, but, nevertheless, here are my photos from a trip that I went on with the uni, to Llangorse and Brecon Beacons, back in October. It was a little activity trip to sort of help us all get to know one another better and, I suppose, to see what photos people could capture when given an idea brief and a small amount of time once we were in groups. It was a bit difficult really, because we were given these wonderful, big cameras (Canon 1Ds, 5Ds, 50Ds, etc) but I didn't really have any idea how to use them properly and I didn't have any time to figure things out and have a little practice because there were six of us and we all needed to have four photos each but we were only given an hour or so, so I didn't manage to take any good pictures, which was a bit of a bummer, but never mind. After a while, I sort of gave up trying to impress the tutors and so I just took the pictures I had to rather quickly so that I could just have some fun and take lots of photos with my own camera as we wandered around looking for inspiration. Amongst all of these are my favourites from being in my own little world, doing my own thing, snapping away like the shutter-bug I am! :)<br />
On a slight side note, if you're ever in Wales, I would definitely recommend you going to Brecon Beacons, and around that area, because you won't be disappointed! The landscapes are amazing and it's even beautiful when it's gloomy and wet (which is most of the time- I mean, this<i> is</i> the UK), but, honestly, sometimes I felt like I was in a film when it was raining and misty, it was so atmospheric and just... stunning! It was amazing! Anyways, I took far too many photos, as per usual, but I finally managed to sift through them all and pick out my favourites, so voila! Maybe one day, I'll print them all out and make a photo album or a big ol' scrapbook? Hmm, the possibilites are endless... Well, anyways I hope you like them! Hope you're having a lovely day :)<br />
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Lots of love, Mari-ann <span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">♥</span>mari-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13408424199198612540noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014398375131697569.post-86220195078958148512012-07-24T18:59:00.001+01:002012-12-27T07:29:45.814+00:00taii gordon.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Okay! Here we go, here is <b>#3</b>, my drawing of the beautiful <a href="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6qj03ZNjH1rt169wo1_500.jpg" target="_blank">Taii Gordon</a>. This took me a couple of weeks rather than doing it all in one sitting- I felt I should bide my time and just go with the flow rather than rushing it and getting frustrated with myself and the drawing! Many a time, I have rushed things and just got flustered and annoyed and just given up in a huff, so I just drew it bit by bit, whenever inspiration possessed me. I wanted it to be as realistic as possible, freckles and all, and I'm really rather glad that I did it slowly because I think taking my time meant I could really pay attention to all of the details and I did my best to try make them look as similar to the photo as possible. In the end, I think that it turned out as good as I could have ever hoped it to be! <span style="background-color: white;">Taii actually saw my drawing on Tumblr, which was very exciting, and she said this: </span></div>
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really am proud of this drawing, and while it was hard work, I'm glad I
stuck at it and finished it! I hope that you like it. :) oh,
I'm actually going to be starting my next drawing in the next week so
fingers crossed that one goes well! Hopefully soon, I'll add some
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posts I've done to show you how things went as I drew them. </span><span style="background-color: white;">So,
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Last month, I saw that Nirrimi posted a link to a blog with a recipe for <a href="http://mynewroots.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/raw-cashew-dreamcake.html" target="_blank">a raw cashew dreamcake</a> (in the end, once I'd made it, I called it a 'raspberry dreamcake') that she was going to make for Matt's birthday and I just had to give it a go! It was so fun to cook again and try something new... These are the photos that I took at almost each step of the recipe while Emmy and I prepared and put everything together in the kitchen! <span style="background-color: white;">(I've realised that I really like taking pictures of things as they go along to a final result!) :)</span><span style="background-color: white;"> On a side note, I really want to try and start introducing more raw foods and meals into my diet to see if I can reap the apparent benefits of it all! I'll let you know how that all goes as time goes by.</span></div>
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A simple self-portrait, taken a year and a week ago, that I stumbled upon while going through some old folders on my hard-drive yesterday. I don't know why I didn't notice, and make something of, it before now, but I thought I'd just have some fun with it and experiment a little bit in Photoshop! I actually really like what I came up with; it makes me think of light and grainy old film photos, all hazy light and faded memories of someone/something that once was... Also, I couldn't choose between the colour and black & white versions of it (terribly indecisive to my very core, I am indeed!) and so I just decided to show you both of them, too. </div>
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I'm gradually going through all of the folders , collecting all of the pictures I meant to share with you here, over these past few months, and sorting them into some new blogposts that I'll be doing soon. I've missed blogging... it feels nice to have a little somewhere to go to where I can just show you all my pictures and memories of things, places, people I see around me and just be myself and to have a voice in my own little corner of the big Wide World Web. I don't think I've said it before, so I'll take the chance to now- thank you for listening to me babble on about everything and nothing :) </div>
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Now, these are a little overdue (as are the hundreds of photos that I'm continuously going through, and still have yet to share with you, but alas, that's a <i>whole </i>other can of worms.), and I took them back in October, but here we are! These photos were taken as part of a project that I did in while I was at uni, called <em>'First Impressions'</em>. We were left to our own devices and asked to create a personal set of images that encapsulated our experiences, thoughts, opinions, etc. in response to the project title about our first impressions of Swansea, university life away from home, yada, yada, yada. Ever the sunrise/sunset/landscape-lover, I chose to do a little project that would basically consist of me taking photos of the view from out of my bedroom window at different times of the day, come rain or shine, every day for almost two weeks. What I liked most about this project was all of the different colours that came across at all of the various times of the day and in all sorts of weather conditions (typical Britain, going from boiling hot and oh-so-sunny to gloomy and pouring down with rain, although I love the rain so I'm not, and was not, complaining!) Hope you like them, simple though they may be :)</div>
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Voila! Here is<b> #2</b>, my drawing of a photograph of <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZCgn9eH9P6A/T4DGJ4KGPPI/AAAAAAAABqI/y1GkL61SGQs/s1600/Screen-shot-2011-04-03-at-10_44_05-.png" target="_blank">Miranda Kerr for KORA Organics</a>. This one took me about half a day, and, I kid you not, at least 6-7 of those hours were taken up by me drawing her hair alone! It was so frustrating; it felt like it took forever, but alas, I got there in the end. (But, goodness me, did my hand was such a mess and hurt so badly after I'd finished, haha!) </div>
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Since the end of March/beginning of April (when I drew this drawing of <a href="http://i007.radikal.ru/0905/22/d2fef7fac77a.jpg" target="_blank">Sølve Sundsbø's photo of Natalia Vodianova</a>), I've been drawing again. It feels so nice and fulfilling to be something other than simply photography 24/7; as much as I love photography, it can get so dull, irritating and choreish trying to constantly be on the look-out to be inspired and create 'amazing' pictures, (which I never do anyway- I'm such a sore excuse for a picture-taker, really) and honestly I've missed just drawing and painting so it's been really therepeutic, calming. I'm actually thinking of making a project out of it, a portrait a month for a year or something along those lines. Maybe something with watercolours, and/or oil painting, as well? Who knows! :) I've still got to do this month's drawing, so once I've done it, I'll post that here as well. This really isn't as 'perfect' as I'd hoped it would be, but despite that I'm still really quite proud of it, and, after all, I'm still only practising, so hopefully I'll get better as I go along... Fingers crossed! <br />
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So, this will be <b>#1</b>, and <b>#2</b> is being uploaded as we speak (or, as I write this, rather)... let's see if I can do this and get near to reaching <b>#12</b>, or even further if inspiration catches me, shall we? :)<br />
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a piece of art in the graffiti building.</div>
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neue synagoge.</div>
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colourful water-pump pipes that ran throughout the city.</div>
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brandenburg gate.</div>
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a couple of graffitied sections of the berlin wall.</div>
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the river spree.</div>
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the graffitied staircase in the graffied building near our hotel.</div>
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it had loads of cool, quirky art/artists. (jewellry makers, painters, a man who sculpted vaginas... all sorts.) </div>
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Well, here we go! I have finally managed to finish a big batch of going through/selecting/editing folders upon folders of images, and amongst those folders were these photos from my trip to Berlin at the end of February! (Only 4 months later...) So, yes! Berlin! I absolutely loved being in Berlin and hopefully, I'll be able to go again in the future. It was so good! I stayed on Oranienburger Stra<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.2em;">ß</span><span style="background-color: white;">e, right by the metro and down a road filled with restaurants, clubs/bars, shops and galleries. Plenty of walking, plenty of alcohol was consumed, shisha was experienced, my faux-Converse trainers got a hole in the sole and got more broken and more soaked over the trip, blisters were endured, pictures were taken, yada yada yada. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I didn't get as many photos, or rather as much variety, as I'd hoped, but I'm still happy with them :) they're my tangible souvenirs from the trip. But anyway, I can't really think of anything more to write about Berlin, other than it was AMAZING and that I miss it and hopefully I can go back again soon. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That week was a rather full-on week, really. The first four days were spent travelling back and forth to, and being in, Berlin, and the other three days were spent in Bristol with my one of my lovely friends to have a nice catch-up, and to celebrate my birthday, too! Yep, on the 2nd of March, the morning after I got back from Berlin, I turned nineteen! :) It</span><span style="background-color: white;"> really was quite possibly one of the best weeks I've had this year- it was rather busy but it was so exhilarating and exciting! It really set my wanderlusting daydreams off to a whole other level, too- now I just want to travel around and just see places and meet new people and just take zillions of pictures along the way! :D Hopefully, one day... I'd better get saving, eh? Anyway, I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore so I'm going to curtail this catch-up and stop waffling on and boring you! </span></div>
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Okay so, fingers crossed, (and I realise I keep saying this but still) I'll start get better at posting more frequently soon! I hope you're all superbly happy and well, that you're enjoying the beginnings of your summer, however the weather may be (it's raining a fair bit over here at the moment.) and that you are having a wonderful weekend :)</div>
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Hello, all! I'm not sure how many of you have Bloglovin, but I just added my blog to the site and so I thought I might as well share the link with you, just in case you'd like to <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/2809189/mari-anns-corner?claim=tjgrx7vpcyt" target="_blank">follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>, as well as here. Sorry for being so quiet; I have lots of new things to share with you, I'm just trying to figure out how to get it all sorted for you all. Once I've sorted through all of the photos I have collected over the past couple of months, I'll post them a.s.a.p! Anyways, while I'm here, I'll take this chance to quickly say a gigantic '<i>Thank-you</i>!' for the lovely comments you've left for me on some of my posts and to those who've followed my blog recently- it really means the world to me! I hope you're all extremely happy and well, and that you're all having a lovely week so far. Hopefully, I'll be posting lots soon :)</div>
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I was just going through a few old photos when I came across these and I just had to share them with you! These are some photographs that I took during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids" target="_blank">Perseid meteor shower</a> on the 13th of August, 2010, the day after the peak of the annual shower. I've always loved the night sky, and have been to spend hours just staring up at the twinkling night sky and since I bought my dslr, I've been photographing the night sky over and over, practising the technique I've taught myself to capture these pictures and to just document a favourite view of mine. In these photos, you can see what I saw that night: the Milky Way in all it's wonder and also Jupiter, high in the sky, in the first and last photos! :) It was so awe-inspiring and beautiful and exciting- I'd wanted to see the Milky Way for ages, and I'd sort of come to the belief that I'd never get to, and then BLAM!, there it was, smack-bang above the camper. I mean, how lucky is that?! I was staying in a camp-site with my grandparents and Emily, while we holidayed that year, and luckily there was hardly any light at night-times, so it was meant that that night was even more magical because I was able to just sit in the dark gazing up at the sky, watching for shooting stars/meteors. (I saw, at least, 11; it was incredible!) Hopefully, one day (some day soon, perhaps), I'll be able to see the sky like this again... and, who knows, maybe the sky'll be even clearer and more vivid and beautiful than the last time! That would be incredible... :) <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">♥ xxx</span></span></div>
</div>mari-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13408424199198612540noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014398375131697569.post-8294859437231486662012-01-30T01:20:00.000+00:002012-01-30T01:20:20.685+00:00ma soeur.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfqq9JDGwT8-rUWtG38FDsdE2Eja89hx5YBbuzkjgsdGFiQKs0fHq9Kgu07YwiUAX9sjQqS9r_mnGOPyTwU75-Lop11aDlSscT5_G5DQGIhyphenhyphenflCxuOTADWnnJU7LOB0WspWR3xedhKSg/s640/sweet+sixteen.jpg" width="430" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Just a couple of simple portraits of Emmy, from a wondrous weekend home last year, that I took as we stood together in the light of her bedroom window just before I left to get the coach back to Swansea. I miss her. I miss my friends/family. I miss home. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px; text-align: left;">♥</span></span></div>mari-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13408424199198612540noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014398375131697569.post-69692293079014195162012-01-30T00:59:00.000+00:002012-01-30T00:59:22.522+00:00quinze.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM5_Pg0S3aVFSrPUIQUvF_7zXiF32e6zTd2RNgiQIbj59YVGI_p3Szf_hxJSdHj1yFJcqrMwrgS29TbluBUcfOMVHX6coaFlTzfA6gmJbITY_f3uF4PlnJfWWmkWkDr9eLByF2LhyRjwY/s640/french+boat.jpg" width="640" /></div><br />
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</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>These are just a few pictures that I took during this day, in the car and out and about. :) After packing up the camper and saying goodbye to the place we'd called home for the past two weeks, we started driving on our way to a hotel for that evening. before we went on our way back to catch the ferry in Normandy to come back home. On the way, we stopped at this gigantic maze that was spread across fields and fields of sweetcorn crops! The sun was high and hot, and we quickly got lost. Trying to be clever, after having given up on following the clues that were provided, we followed the maze with our lefts hands brushing the leaves and always taking left-turns to eventually find our way out (a little tip for you there , for if you ever find yourself lost in a maze: choose a side to follow- left or right-, stick to it and be patient!). BUT, what we didn't realise until there was no way out other than to finish it was that there were scary, cloaked characters within the maze wearing big black cloaks and shouting, following and chasing you in the maze... I was amused, yet highly unamused at the same time, let's just say that. At one point, I screamed really loudly when, out of nowhere, this guy jumped out on Emmy and I after we had just run as fast as we could to escape any interaction with him just minutes beforehand! :p For those of you who haven't ever heard me scream ("Lucky you!", I'm sure my sister would say...), I've been told that I have a veeeery high-pitch scream and a veeeery loud voice on certain occasions (i.e. singing, acting... and the odd scream). I'm telling you this because, basically, everybody heard me. And I mean everybody. It was hilarious, but also rather embarrassing. Let's just say, the two of us got out of that maze as quickly as we could! :) After a quick toilet break, water-bottle refill and a lovely ice-cream, we hopped back in the car and went back on our way up to the hotel. (which was lovely, by the way! They did the <b>nicest </b>Chicken Caesar salad, mmm, and Emmy and I had our own room which was great- we spent much of the night watching French music videos and dubbed episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Bones! :) Ah, it was so great.) xxx</i></div>mari-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13408424199198612540noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4014398375131697569.post-10388365534661819422012-01-25T19:20:00.000+00:002012-01-25T19:20:45.164+00:00treize.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Emily and I wondered onto the field full of daisies and spent an hour or two just chatting, making daisy-chain crowns, giggling and taking lots of pictures. I took so many, quite possibly too many... :P So here's a condensed view of a lovely, sunny afternoon spent with my little sister, making memories! :) </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 25px;">♥</span><i> xxx</i></div>mari-annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13408424199198612540noreply@blogger.com0