Happy Camera Day!

Happy Camera Day!

29th June

I have to admit, I found this out by accident, but hey, I'm a keen photographer, so the day has inspired an impromptu post :).

I've always been the one behind the camera in my family. If you look at our holiday snaps from when I was a teenager, I'm not in most and that's because I was taking them. And since digital photography came to fruition, I've become an even keener photographer.

I began by buying a little Sony point and click, which was sweet and easy, but only had a digital zoom, which is advertising talk for the fact if pixelates like hell if you want to get a closer shot of anything. So, once I had the digital bug, I quickly moved on to investing in a Canon 400D, an SDLR which, with it's telephoto lens, was a monster of a camera, but which I still love to pieces. I dragged that camera round tourist attractions, to concerts, and I have some lovely shots from it. 

I also have loads of terrible ones as well ;P, since I have a bit of a shake and only one of the lenses had a stabilizer, and that didn't always work. But that's the joy of digital - if it's crap, you haven't wasted film :).

However, technology has moved on, and I now have a Panasonic Lumix DMC-G7, which is a compact camera with 4K technology. It is tiny compared to the Canon and the picture quality is amazing. I have 2 lenses, a telephoto which manages distance shots and macro, and a normal wider angle lens for landscape. I am tempted to get a separate macro lens as well, but that's for when I have saved up!

I have 2 favourite types of photography. The first one is macro photography, which is closeup and details, and the Lumix is great for me since the tech has inbuilt stabilisers. I do lots of photos of flowers and insects. But I also love landscape photography as well, especially water - if I can stop and stare at a river, or look down into the rippling calm of a lake shore, I love it and I'll snap it :).

Recently, I've decided to try and make some money from my photography by uploading my photos to Society6, a place where they'll take your art and put it onto everything from a fine art print for the wall to a duvet cover and t-shirts. One of mine, a garden spider, is below (it makes a very interesting T-shirt ;P):

https://society6.com/product/spider-on-web-vb7_all-over-print-shirt?curator=sophieduncan

Do you have any hobbies that the digital age has transformed?

Society6 & My Photos (plus there's free shipping worldwide until 5th June)

So, thanks to buying A to Z mugs this year, I found a really great site called Society6, which is a site where artists can upload their own designs and have them sold as prints and all sorts of other wonderful things like laptop sleeves, mugs and t-shirts.

Now, I'm a photographer as well as a writer, and so I decided to join up as an artist and publish some of my photos. It takes some time to prepare the images for the site, so I only have two photos up so far:

Stones in Melting Ice

Dandelion 2016

But even if you're not into my stuff, there are some other great pieces of art on the site as well and there's free shipping on everything worldwide until 5th June 2016. So I recommend checking them out for some unusual and interesting designs.