I've Lost My Muse

I haven't blogged for a while, I haven't done much photography, I haven't made anything, created anything in fact, I have been a bit uninspired.

There could be a number of reasons for this; Work is ridiculously busy so I am pretty exhausted when I get home. Money is tight so we go less places and do less at the moment (stupid recession!).

To be honest, keeping the house clean, going to work, making sure the kids get to school and attend everything they need to is pushing me to my limits right now. Hubs is fab and doing is share, it's just I haven't got anything left.

I have been doing Operation Scan, trying to get all my old photo's on to the computer. Quite a long and laborious task, although there have been some great finds. This, for example, my interpretation of Valentine (appropriate) for a fancy dress party I had.

Or this picture of my my Dad at school with his boxing team (approx 1943ish).

So, blogesphere, I need to get my groove back. I suppose, writing this is a step in the right direction. I just need to do it more. Any suggestions folks?

The Gallery - Children

For this week's Gallery Tara gave us Children as a topic....Incredibly tricky...what to choose?

I don't know about you but I find it incredibly difficult to get a natural picture of my children.

They both have inherited their father's ability to gurn, the minute a camera is put in front of them (which, in fairness to them, is quite often).

For the more politically correct. Here are some photo's where my children 'show their personality'.

For example...

I call that one Blue Steel (If you have seen Zoolander you will know what I mean).

And this

I have no name for the above.

It seems my parents struggled with this as well.

But then, every so often you get lucky and capture a really natural moment of pure joy.

Which is why love photography. x