My grandfather’s sitting room

I much prefer sitting room, to lounge. And it seems fitting here. For more pictures of my grandfather’s house see here and here. © images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012

Autumn’s still

If you listen carefully you will hear the hushed still of Autumn in the breeze If you look closely you will see quiet muffled beauty in the closeness Nature is settling Falling Furling Curling After the buzzing vivacity of Spring And the full heady bloom of Summer Nature is calm and muted Yielding Thoughtful Weary Winding down There is a soft, subtle radiance to…

A lightbulb moment

When I worked in Human Resources, many years ago, I used to regularly undergo personality tests like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (all part of the job). I got to know myself quite well, and also unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you look on it) that I was in the wrong job. My favourite of these such tests was the Belbin team role…

Flower Friday

I missed last week. Just stupidly busy at the moment, although in a good way 🙂 I haven’t been taking many flower pictures either lately, so this is an old one from the summer. I quite like the mellow parma violet tones. Got to dash for school pick up! Have a good weekend everyone!

words to shoot by: water (2)

This was my other option for the words to shoot by entry, which I also like, but I decided the other trio had more impact in the end. I still like these though I think they are quite tranquil. What do you think? (Incidentally, these are medium format shot on the rollei, the others on my iphone) © images and content Emily Hughes and…

words to shoot by: water

I was very excited to be selected to as a guest contributor on the words to shoot by blog after an open call for entries (if you scroll down to the guest contributions you will see my entry). Every other week a selection of contributors submits a triptych in response to a single word. This week the word was water, and here are the…

About a girl

this summer she skipped and swam clutched piles of acorns in her hands her chubby limbs grew long and lean hair tousled in the warm breeze hidden treasures in secret places dreams of ponies and princesses in faraway places she fell in and out of love and studied the morphing cloud-shapes up above friendships were made then quickly forgotten I dried her weary tears…

Flower Friday (sorry late again!)

© images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012

My grandfather’s study

See here for my previous post about my grandfather. © images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2012

Rolleiflex

At last I have some recent images from my beloved rolleiflex to share. These were all taken this summer in Sidmouth, Devon and various locations in France. I didn’t make any adjustments to the images apart from the odd minor crop or straightening of a wonky horizon as I wanted to show them as they are (although some of them would work really well…