Macro...

29 Day February Challenge

(Although not really a macro with my ability lens!)

Jip and I walked into the centre of Bristol this morning... a three (ish) mile walk that probably took us about two hours. Today I took about 300 photos and I like pretty much all of them. The difference? Monochrome. It's pretty clear to me that I am a black and white girl. In so many ways!! I see a lot of stuff in black and white, not literally of course, I have full colour vision but 99.9% of the time I like my black and white photos better than my colour photos. I am going to stop fighting it and shoot in mono because it's what I like and it's what I'm better at. Who says I have to take colour photos? I knew this way back when I started and said as much in my first entry in blip. I've tried really hard to experiment and I will continue to do that but I'm pretty sure I'd have had a better photographic day yesterday, had I taken my photos in black and white.

I met Mark for lunch. This is the flower that was on our table. Like the flower, things are fresh and clear and make a whole lot more sense now. Sometimes life throws a curve-ball at me and I find myself struggling to make sense of things. Sometimes things that make perfect sense to me, don't make the same perfect sense to other people. I have to learn to live with that. Life is all about timing and while I don't have a time machine, I need to be able to live with my choices in my life. I don't need to explain myself to anyone else, I dare say that time will come, but for the moment I have to be comfortable with the choices I've made and let other people be comfortable in their choices. There are days when I feel at a loss when people I love are unhappy and there's nothing I can do to help, but there are times when I need to accept that that's okay. This is one of those times. I will always be there. Rain or shine, my door is always open. I feel better, emotional, but I can move on properly now. Onwards and upwards.

I met Sam and Jip in the pub this afternoon and we watched the rugby. Well... they watched the rugby, I was the Scottish girl in an English pub full of Welsh people... do I cheer or not?! No need as it turns out! I was really annoying and took photos of everything and everyone obviously while drinking lovely cold pinot and in the end had people asking me to take their photo! It's so much easier for me to be braver in asking people if I can photograph them when I'm in a strange city. My 'weirdo alert' inhibitions seem to disappear when it's unlikely I shall ever see any of these people again. The manager in the pub asked if I was available to take some shots for him after he asked if I was from another pub! which was quite flattering but alas I said I lived in Edinburgh. I did tell him I'd come down to take photos in exchange for wine though! I am a lush! We got the bus home and stopped off to purchase some more wine marshmallows to make an attempt at Ruby's marshmallow challenge... 11! Jip made it to 10. Clearly I have a big gob! And we scored a bottle of wine free! I obviously have 'lush' written on my forehead!

So now we're drinking said wine I am going on the wagon tomorrow! and Jip is in the kitchen cooking curry for dinner while Sam and I sit with our feet up! My plan is to get up early tomorrow and make it into town with Sam... I'm hoping there's a left luggage bit at Temple Meads so I can dump my bag and go for a wander without having to carry it round. There's so much I've not seen, I think perhaps I'll need to come back.

Today has been a good day. :o)

EDIT: And I made Jip do a hubshot while we were out! I laughed! A lot!