So yesterday was a Bokeh wednesday. Having had my afternoon rained off I nipped out for 30 minutes in the evening and managed to grab three shots that I quite like. 2 of them within 100 yards of home.

So, I've been dabbling in portraiture.

This is my daughter. It's kind of a pensive looking image. There's a lot going on in her life at the moment, the change from primary to secondary school, growing up in general. Life's big journey. That's what I was trying to convey, the journey from youth to adulthood. From Small to Big...

Entered into Photo Friday's big and small challenge.

Well, are you?

This is a bit more normal for me, lots of bokeh, some kind of thinly veiled message, angular composition. I was walking around having dropped off some prop making materials at my daughters school, and I spotted this bench. There was a very normal memorial message on it, but unusually the word happy stood out... not many people would choose to use that word in a memorial, they'd be scared of causing offense.

I got to thinking, why shouldn't a memory be happy?

This one is unusual for me. I don't normally go in for product shots, anything advertorial. I tend to find the results I get are a little less than interesting. If you have a mooch through my flickr photo stream you'll see what I do take photos of, found things. I go walking with camera and shoot what my eye finds. It's not planned.

In a way this is what happened here.

In the evening, after a days walking and shooting I was sitting down, laptop to my left, single light source on, everything looking calm and moody. I reached for my camera to transfer the days shots and as I turned back to open the lid of the powerbook I saw this shot. So it's found beauty and advertorial at the same time.

I am kind of in love with the shallow depth of field and the subtle bokeh on the far end of the apple logo, and I think the composition is kind of good too...

I'm starting with this one, seeing as it's top of my most favourited and interesting lists on Flickr.

It's a shot of the Everest ride in the Animal Kingdom Park of Disneyworld Florida. It's pretty much as close as I'm going to get to the real thing, and as a bonus there's a pretty hot roller coaster inside it. That can't be said of the real thing.

Is it worthy of the attention? I'm not so sure, to me it's a so-so composition, and a so-so HDR, but it's not for me to decide. I do like it, but I'm not sure I love it...

So I thought I could share some of my photos on a blog. Talk a bit about why they were taken, when that sort of stuff. Hope you like them.