Day 6 - January 6th Snowy Self-Portrait

After being stuck in doors for most of the day yesterday I was really pleased to get out this morning. I had to cancel a meeting yesterday and we rearranged it for today so I wrapped up warm and headed down to Sheffield town centre. My road is completely snowed in but I was really impressed with the main roads and Sheffield's Street Force who were out gritting and clearing the pavements.
My meeting was with Anita (education co-ordinator) from Museums Sheffield. I did some work with them last February and they got in touch with me a few days ago with a new project for me to do. I have been asked to create a schools' resource aimed at GCSE and A'level students that looks at some of the photography galleries that are currently in the Graves Gallery. At the moment there is a selection of portraits by Robert Mapplethorpe so that is to be my focus for the scheme of work. However they have also asked me to try and make it a little more photography portrait based so that it can be used for other exhibitions in the future. I am really excited about this project as it combines my love of portrait photography with my 9 year teaching experience. I couldn't ask for a more dream job! After I had had a good chat and found out more about the work that they wanted me to do I went for a wander around the gallery to familarise myself with Mapplethorpe's work....and I loved it! The Graves gallery have also got a Comedians' exhibition which is from the Portrait Gallery and has some great shots of past and present comedians. I had a really self indulgent morning wandering around the gallery and can write it down as work.
I then made my way back up to Woodseats and had a wander through the local park which is where I took this photo....my first self portrait of the year.

Day 5 - January 5th - Snowed in!

It's well and truly winter...one like we've not had in years! We've had snow since before Christmas and it's showing no signs of letting up. It started snowing again in the night and as I'm writing this at 8:30pm it's not stopped all day! Fortunately I work from home so I cancelled the one meeting I had today and snuggled up with my computer and the accounts!! I did venture out to go and buy some more milk...I had a craving for hot chocolate...and so got a couple of photos. The first one in this montage is of my balcony first thing this morning. The 2nd is of my road....a winter wonderland! I'm hoping to get out tomorrow to take a few more wintry shots. I have a feeling that the snow theme could run for the next few days at least!

Day 4 - January 4th - Snowy Sunset

The first "official" day back at work and I was faced with the arduous task of getting started on my accounts and admin work! I managed to prolong the start of the day by going to a body pump class at the gym and then got home to settle down to the paper work. It felt like a very long day so it was great to see the sun setting over the snowy rooftops. Tomorrow is another day.

Day 3 - January 3rd - Sledging with Amy

We have had snow on the ground and below freezing temperatures for the last 3 weeks which is really unusual. It has it's moments of being very frustrating but on a Sunday, when you have all day to play and enjoy it, snow is brilliant! I went round for lunch with my really good friends Kevin, Lucy and their 2 girls Amy and Ella and it wasn't long before we were wrapping up and heading out with the sledge to find the nearest hill. Living in Sheffield that wasn't hard! This is Amy, she is my goddaughter and was very proudly showing off the gaps in her teeth. 6 teeth lost so far and 1 wobbly one....and counting!

Day 2 - January 2nd - Training

One of my (many) new year's reslutions is to do a 10K run this year. I had been planning to do one this September in Sheffield but have just found out that I am photographing a wedding the day before in Sussex so will have to look for another run to do. I am determined to do a 10K run and started with day 1 of training today. It was a successful day...I managed 4k which really surprised me. Long may it continue!

Day 1 - January 1st Finlay

What a year the last one has been! This time last year I had no idea I'd be meeting this very gorgeous little man and now here he is! Finlay is the very cute son of a very good friend of mine. He was born on the 1st November 2009 and I am looking forward to watching him grow up over the next year. He may well feature in a number of my photos a day as I am also doing my Shutterbugs "Bump to 1st Year" photo session with him.
Finlay brought his mum over to wish me Happy New Year...what a year it's going to be!

2010 - The start of a new photo a day project!

With the gentle persuasion of my cousin Ben I have decided to start the Photo-a-Day project again. I did it back in 2008 and really enjoyed it but it was quite hard to get inspired on different days so taking a year out to concentrate on other things was a good move. However we have just started a new decade, my business Serendipity Photography is starting it's 3rd year and I wanted to start the project all over again! 2010 promises to be an exciting year, I have great ideas for my business, my sister is getting married, I've been persuaded to train for a 10K run and we celebrate my Granny's 90th birthday. These are just a few things that I'm going to be documenting in my photo-a-day so keep coming back to this blog to see what I'm up to. Let's do this!