Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all!

I hope you had a wonderful time and the adverse weather conditions didn’t affect all your festivities.

Even though St Andrews is on the coast we had snow, in fact the first day we had it, I went toddling off to the beach and the Old Course to get some photos for Christmas cards next year. It’s the first time I have seen the West Sands covered in snow, it was just so pretty.

     I spent ages just walking along the beach admiring the scenery and since most of the students had gone home for Christmas I pretty much had the beach to myself.                                                                                          

Golf play had obviously been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions so I took the opportunity to photograph some winter scenes of the Old Course and the Swilken Bridge.    

                                

                                                                     I do like photographing landscapes for fun but my passion will always be wedding photography and photographing people.   

We tried to leave on Christmas Eve to visit our son and his family in Durham for Christmas but the roads were so treacherous we had to return to St Andrews.  We did manage down on Christmas Day so all was well.  What a stuff children get for Christmas!  My two grandchildren had so much fun though it was just wonderful watching them at play.   Lewis is eight and Neve is three so Christmas was an absolute pleasure for them and us.   Santa brought them an X Factor  studio so we listened to non stop music – created by Lewis  – and songs – mostly from Neve for three whole days!!!!!!!!!!

                            

                 

 

 

 

 

 

                                         However my favourite pic of the holiday season was one I took of Neve.  She had just woken up and come downstairs. The winter sunshine was filtering in through the living room window.  I had my camera at hand and I just happened to see how beautiful the light was.  I had a split second to calculate exposure and focus and just managed to capture her before she moved away.  I’m very happy with this one.   Until next blog!!