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new year, new bag

December 31, 2008 Ghene Leave a comment


This is a small jill-e camera bag.  Its is made of leather and is very stylish – I love it! It comes in three sizes and a variety of colours. You can get the Medium Jill-e bag from Amazon.co.uk for £156.00

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it’s summer time!

May 16, 2008 Ghene Leave a comment

It is this time of the year when you see lots of flowers and take gazillions of flower photos. Well, I did try not to do that as I am economising on disk space. I do not want my external drives to fill up fast and not have enough space to store the important photos — those that sell :)

I love it when its sunny but when it rains, it is just grrrr – I can see my garden’s enemies crawling towards my precious plants in hope to devour their healthy leaves. I still couldn’t get over my witnessing them eating my primroses last year… yuck. The worse thing is, I can’t put anything (slug and killers) in the garden yet, as I will be hosting a birthday party and will be releasing children out in the garden.

Anyways, I will post a photo of my garden soon… my organic vegetable patch. Can you believe just a small area in your garden can produce a couple of kilos of potatoes?  Well, I did say in my previous post that I planted other plants as well.

– waiting for the sun –

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may smiles

May 12, 2008 Ghene Leave a comment

First, I thank you all for your birthday greetings, gifts, flowers, wishes, cards, hugs and poke. I wish I could’ve organised a party for us to get together. Maybe next year, who knows, I might be able to afford a big one! :D

May really started out to be a very busy time with all the photography sessions to do, which I am enjoying immensely, plus all the books to read (yup, about photography), monsters to chase and photos to edit… *sigh* I miss just wandering out and about with the lot of suspicious photographers ;-) carrying big cameras in London. Anyways, I am really looking forward to a nocturnal adventure in Paris. With 30+ people who are coming, there is no reason to be scared.

Also, i’ve started researching on the next nightly flights for the London photographers… only a few know the next stop but this should be a very interesting one. I hope you look forward to it as well.

I’ve recently received booking for a wedding and I am really excited about it!

My garden is looking better than winter and even better than last year’s wet summer. The grass are taking root, another bunch of potatoes are growing nice and healthy plus the mint, parsely, tomatoes, onions, garlic, sage and rosemary. I know, I know… there is something called the grocers but I do enjoy gardening and being able to provide food grown in my little garden is really nice.

My website (www.gsnowdon.com) will undergo another update very soon showing my hubby’s java skills. All the nightouts I’ve allowed him to is paying off :D — a worthy investment ! As I’ve posted earlier, it will hopefully become an All-in-One site where my portfolio can be seen, information easility edited, proofinf with online-ordering and so on. .. The more we get to the completed site, the more impatient I become. grrr

another year…

April 22, 2008 Ghene 1 comment

Yay, it’s my birthday! Yup, I’ve just turned 2X and still feel 18 :D
I did not receive too many goodies today because my Olympus E-3 was my advance birthday and Christmas . I got some nice goodies and books from my kids and in-laws. Since it was my birthday I dared do many things like cold calling companies and chatting up with people. All of my attempts were rewarding and already have two sessions booked! I also got several photographs approved by Alamy, a very nice stock site.

I drove almost an hour to get my “cake” from the shop called “Belgique” in Theydon Bois (Essex). I am not fond of super sweet cake glazed with sugar. I bought a tart with 6 yummy looking fresh fruit on top and the seventh in the middle is the Fig.

Anyway, a new page has opened for me and celebrating birthday is the best way to start it and my photography.

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I’ve taken the plunge

March 7, 2008 Ghene Leave a comment

Jump
, originally uploaded by Olivier Bareau.

Indeed I have. Today I’ve just spent ££ on a new camera equipment.. yup. I just bought an Olympus E-3.
I’ve been raving about it since last year and finally… will recieve it on Monday (crosses everything).

Another thing I dared to do was offer FREE portfolio building sessions to some friends and a some discounted session to some of my son’s classmates.  I hope that brings in something… I am looking at locations close by for some sort of party and maybe an entertainer?

We’ll see what tomorrow brings…

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