Showing posts with label Landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Landscape. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 January 2014

Beautiful, personal, natural and ethical photography in 2014


Walking to school this morning - a car windscreen, on my iPhone

Hello there.  I am back - in body at least, if the spirit is lagging slighting.  

The last 6 months of 2013 were crazy - lots and lots of lovely work, and I was consumed by it and attempting to preserve a sniff of time for my lovely family, so things like blogging had to give.  In December, I decided it was time to shift gear, and opt for a new website, branding, products and prints, so I spent a lot of time thinking about all of that.  I want to get it all right, and I want to be offering my clients the best possible stuff, and all in line with ethical principles I hold dear.  

I then disappeared to Switzerland to spend a few weeks up some mountains.  It was stunning.
It looked a bit like this:

This kind of dawn view from the balcony makes being woken up by a three-year-old more 'wow' and less 'ugh'

It was the first time I had an iPhone, and wow, it was fun not carting more kit around, and still capturing some lovely things.

So what's new in 2014?  Well, my re-branding, website update and product research is all going on in the background, and I'm really excited bout sharing it soon.  To give you a taste, I took a marketing course (run by the wicked Jamie at Modern Tog www.themoderntog.com), and have come up with a 'Big Three' to describe my business and values:

Beautiful      Personal      Natural      Ethical 

Ok, so it's a 'Big Four', but that's how it goes.

Anyway, I will be blogging more work soon.
In the meantime, I leave you with some beauty I noticed on the work with the Bee to nursery this morning - on cars (talk about finding beauty in unexpected places!).

Happy 2014 - hope it is a wonderful year for you, with lots of wonder, warmth and laughter.



Love Mim


PS Am so excited that everything I post will look so much better soon, on my new site - bring it on!











Wednesday, 30 January 2013

ooooh we're halfway there...

Happy imbolc!  I come up for air and we're halfway from Winter Solstice to Spring Equinox - phew.  My post-festive hibernation is drawing to a close and I am full of renewed commitments to my blog.  This year I hope to fill it with all the work I'm doing, instead of letting it sit fed-up and slightly crumpled at the bottom of my long to-do list.  So watch this space.  And in the meantime, here are some I made earlier, and a reminder of good things to come - last year's snowdrops, shot using my trusted 50mm f/1.8 in Christchurch Meadows.  Yes, the great sprouting has begun, and soon we will be surrounded by thousands of tiny signs of spring.  Enjoy it!


















Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Happy solistice!

Another year has lurched past and what a year it has been.  Thank you for taking an interest in my work over the past year.  I just wanted to wish you all a very happy solstice and gentle ride into a beautiful 2013.  Here's wishing you an abundance of all things good over the coming weeks and months - especially great photos - and for those in the UK, not rain. 

I leave you with a few frosty shots from a walk on Otmoor a couple of weeks ago.  Sadly, it looks like xmas will offer more images of puddles than of snow-covered villages - but at least we'll all be feeling pleased it wasn't the end of the world :)

Go well, one and all, and see you next year.

www.mimsaxl.com








































Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Flashback - journeys in the land of the Moose

In August 2006, I traveled around parts of South-West Canada, touching down in Quebec on my way home.  It was a stunning trip.  The other day a picture from my trip caught my eye, and I had the urge to dig some more out and share them with you.  Enjoy x

Right, enjoyable procrastination over, now back to my editing...

Oxford photographer

Vancouver sunset - a sweet arrival

Overnight Greyhound into the Rockies



Moon as my travel companion

Banff

Probably some Grizzlies in this photo, you just can't see them

Joy is: a shop full of fur and tack mmmm

Stunning lakes near Banff

Kayaking down the river at Edmonton

Excuse for my trip - Edmonton Fringe with a poet

Alberta blue





Heading west to the islands

Vancouver Island

Exploring

There's my moon again

*wow*

And back to the city - Vancouver at sunset



My travel companion

Mean streets of 'couver

One of my favourites from the trip

Another favourite - Vancouver cafe

A friend's lake in Quebec - yes, they *have* lakes in Canada!

They share it only with beavers

Lakeside

Montreal chic

More Montreal chic

A loan cowboy on our last day