Seven Deadly Sins

I've decided to change the style of my blog after the New Year, I'll hopefully be posting every Monday and posting new stuff each week, going to make the effort to take my camera everywhere with me!  But for now, my last post before Christmas, I am going to share my photo's for the original QUB Photography Society Exhibition theme, the Seven Deadly Sins.

Envy

Gluttony

Greed

Lust

Sloth

Vanity

Wrath

Animals

A day late with this post, thought I'd share some of my favourite animal shots I've got over the years.  I love taking pictures of animals, even though it can be pretty tough when they won't. sit. still.  But these are a few I'm pretty proud of.

This wee meerkat is soo cute! 

In Belfast Zoo the prairie dogs usually get out and make their way to a hill near their enclosure.  It's really difficult to get close to them, this is about as close as he'd let me get...keep in mind I have a massive lens!

I have loads of butterfly pictures I'm proud of, they're so beautiful, but unfortunately I'm terrified of them flying around me.  This was taken in the Butterfly House in Seaford.

This is a really old photo; this was my cat Jones after he'd grown up a little bit and became pretty curious!

I took this one at the World of Owls in Templepatrick.  Another old one, you can tell I developed a bit of an obsession with colour popping..

My favourite picture of wee Jones!

Belfast Zoo

Today I'm sharing my photos from Belfast Zoo that I took at the start of the summer.  I entered a few of them into the annual Zoo photography competition, but unfortunately I didn't win anything.  I'm still really proud of these pictures, I feel they're the best I've taken in a long time!

 This shot looked really good in black and white too

Ring-tailed Lemur that I entered into the competition

I adore this little monkey with a crazy beard =)

I just love the detail in the feathers on this eagle

I find bats are pretty difficult to photograph, they just don't stay still and usually they're kept in dark conditions, so I'm pretty impressed with this shot

Newcastle

This weekend I took a little trip to Newcastle with my boyfriend to stay the night at the Slieve Donard hotel.  We headed down on Saturday and arrived to some pretty miserable weather, so we made the most of the spa facilities and I kicked his butt in the arcade.  I didn't take any pictures on the Saturday, but Sunday turned out to be a lovely day, the sun was out and the sky was blue.  We went to Silent Valley, which is a huge reservoir in the mountains, and it was beautiful!  

We realised we don't have many pictures together, so I took this in a huge, shiny sphere! 

 If you look closely you can see a tiny point on the mountain between the two spikes, this is the tallest point in Northern Ireland.

Silent Valley Reservoir 

 In real life this mushroom was huge! So it immediately drew my attention

This is cropped in a good bit because I'm easily stressed out by insects and couldn't get very close to it

Belfast

For this post I'm going to share some pictures I've taken round Belfast on different occasions and my next post will be Belfast in the snow.  I'm not that fond of cityscapes, I'm trying to come round, but it's pretty difficult, I just think most buildings are quite ugly.

This is Queen's University, this is where I go to school!

The wheel that was beside the City Hall, which has been removed.

I like to try and get shots with the Harland and Wolff cranes in them somehow.

The lady with a hoop which stands beside the River Lagan.

Ormeau Park, it's so beautiful and got the cranes in there too.

Star Wars By Night

A few QUB Photography Society Exhibitions ago the theme was 'Urban Photography', so I thought about this and living in Belfast it provided the perfect setting, but I wanted something a little different.  I asked my friends in the Emerald Garrison if they wouldn't mind putting on their costumes and posing in my pictures, I knew no one else would have the same shots and they'd be pretty unique, but still sticking to the theme.

 An Imperial Officer in front of a wall of graffiti

 A Stormtrooper aiming across the River Lagan

Biker Scout at the River Lagan, this is probably my favourite picture from the night

We are the Knights who say... NI

A few years ago I had a friend from France come to stay for a couple of weeks in the Summer and on one of our many trips we visited Carrickfergus Castle.  The day we were there we got to see a fighting display performed by some knights.  It was a great day, we watched them fighting and then went to see their equipment, their chain mail and weapons etc..

These are a few of my favourite shots from the day.