The Emerald Garrison

I think we've established by now that photography is one of my main interests, another one is Star Wars costuming with The Emerald Garrison.  My own costumes are Padme's white battle outfit from Episode II and the Slave Leia gold bikini, I would love to own Stormtrooper armour though.  Here's a few pictures from some of our troops.

 This Shock Trooper was taken in Armagh for the St. Patrick's day parade

 These two clones were at an FG Wilson's fun day, as is the next shot of the Stormtrooper

This trooper is from the first Invasion Belfast, our main event in W5, this was the reason I joined the Emerald Garrison, and I haven't looked back!

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

This is quite an interesting post to write, as it's something a little out of the ordinary.  A few weeks ago I was baby-sitting Predators and managed to get some great shots of the guys.  The Emerald Garrison, a Star Wars costuming group, recently expanded into other sci-fi costuming, which led to the mini Invasion of Predators and the incredible creation of a jungle set in W5.  The shots were very difficult to get due to how dark the set was, but with a little help from photoshop I got the results I was after.

 I really like this shot, just a random detail shot from the set.

 Another detail shot of this really awesome helmet!!

Ohhh fishy, fishy, fishy, fish!

So, even though I have so much revision to be doing, I still found the time to go to Exploris!  It was worth it though, hadn't been since I was in primary school and I needed a break from studying.  It was pretty hard to photograph as it was so dark and flash photography wasn't allowed, I was just lucky most of the tanks were lit pretty well. The walk round didn't seem as long as when I was wee, but maybe that's because I'm bigger now...but the walk across the bridge above the massive tank still terrifies me!  We then took a little walk around Portaferry Castle and after that made our way to Scrabo Tower.  Here's a few of my favourite photo's from the day...enjoy =)

 Kind of annoyed about this one, I really love the colours, but the tank was like a bubble so the picture got a bit distorted =(

 I absolutely adored this little guy!! I want one!!

First Post =D

So this is my very first post of, hopefully, a long line of photography posts.  Photography has been my number one hobby for 4/5 years, but it's always been there since I was little.  I still remember going for walks with my dad and he had this gorgeous film SLR, I'll always remember taking my first photo with it and from that moment on I wanted my very own.  Now I'm the proud owner of a Canon 400D and I love it!!  Still want one of those old film SLR's though. 

Tonight was the Queen's University Belfast Photographic Society's Summer Exhibition and it went brilliantly!  This pleases me as I'm the new President of the society.

Since this is my first post I'll put some of my old work, but I hope to add new photo's as I post, if I ever find the time to take any! =)

This picture won me first place in the photographic exhibition =)