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Effects

How I Edit My Photos

I love editing photos. As soon as I've downloaded my photos from my camera, I start editing them. Today I decided to make a quick video about how I edit my photos for my blog using Picasa. I really enjoyed making it. Would you like to watch? Do you like editing photos? What's your favourite effect? ...

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Animals

The Trouble with Photographing Cats

I have always wanted to be able to take amazing photos of cats, but sadly it turns out that cats aren't as easy to snap a photo of as you might think. After taking heaps a failed photos... ...I finally decided to go a watch a video to find out what I was doing wrong. As soon as I finished watching, I grabbed...

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People

A Trip to the Park

Gemma-Rose and I walked down to the park at the end of our road. I had my camera with me. We headed over to the play equipment. Gemma-Rose decided to slide down the slippery dip. I snapped some photos of her as she flew down. Gemma-Rose also wanted to play on the swing. Soon we left the play equipment and headed over to...

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Effects

How to Add a Splash of Colour to a B&W Photo

When I'm not taking photos, one of my favourite things to do is to edit them. It always amazes me how much better you can make your images look with just a little bit of photo editing. Today I thought that I would make a video tutorial on how to do one of my favourite effects, the colour splash photo effect. Here are...

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People

Gemma-Rose's Pancakes

"Mum, can I cook some pancakes for afternoon tea, please?" Gemma-Rose asks. "Of course!" Mum agrees. We all love pancakes! I have an idea, I grab my camera and follow Gemma-Rose into the kitchen. I could get some great photos of her cooking. First, Gemma-Rose gets all her ingredients out so they're on hand. Then she starts measuring them into a bowl. Four...

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Nature

Corrugated Iron, Flowers and a New Blog

Mum and I are walking down the old abandoned railway in our village with our cameras. We are hoping to find something exciting to photograph. I see a house beside the tracks whose mail box says 'Station House'. I wonder if the house used to be the real station house back when trains came through our village.  "Look at all the patterns in...

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