First week of September

Well that is another week gone and it has been a good one with three photo shoots (practise sessions) an unexpected request winging it's way into my email box on Monday which has had me rather curious as well as excited all week.  (A full explanation will be given at the end of post.)  The only downer this week was being told at work that with all the changes I was being moved teams, no great issue apart from the small detail of the team I have been on for the last two years has worked Christmas due to the way the rota falls, this year we are due to have Christmas off.  Now they have changed me it means I am ....due to work Christmas yet again this year and the following year!!!!!  As you can imagine I am not a happy teddy over that one  ....but that isn't going to dampen my spirits completely.

Anyway...............
 

Cassi (the cocker spaniel) came to lunch on Sunday with her mum and dad so I could attempt to capture some photos of Cassi running in the garden, once she stopped jumping on top of me when I got on the grass with her we had some fun!!

This one has to be one of my favourites even though I have cut her back legs off - oops!!

Monday I went over to see Yvonne's neighbours who was happy for me to photograph her two children Cody and Lloyd aged 4 & 5 and FULL of beans.  I won't post a photo of them yet as mum hasn't seen then yet and I don't feel that is very fair, plus she may not be happy with me posting them, so need to check first.

 

Wednesday a friend brought his two youngest daughters and two Dachshund's for me photograph!!!!!  The girls ... fantastic, the dogs....... well hmm lets just say the photos were soooo bad they are hilarious - as you will see below lol

 

My big excitement of the week though has been an email from a photography tutor at the local college - who I know vaguely - contacting me to see if I would be interested in developing a ten week programme for a photography course starting in October!!  I knew he was looking to run one but wasn't expected to have any input into the actual programme.  So this afternoon I went along to the college to see him, we discussed ideas for the course and came up with a revised programme to what he had written.  Feeling excited as the course will cover stuff that other courses don't cover.  Just hope others out there are interested in the content. He is himself is an excellent photographer with a wealth of knowledge that I/we are going to be able to tap into and a weekly basis. 

In reality, I am sure he has only asked me because a member of the camera club who had attended one of his courses had nagged and nagged him to do a different course in the evening and there were a number of cc members who would be interested in attending the said course - me being one of them.  Anyway , what ever the reason I am happy as I will now being doing a ten week course that will most definitely cover all the things I want  to know and I shall have weekly access to a studio, a darkroom, a huge photographic library and most importantly a wealth of knowledge in the form of Colin.  The course is being advertised on Monday via the college so I shall be booking my place first thing. :)

Hope you have all had a good week as well. xx