Happy New Year and a love story

Well, it's belated, but I still want to wish you all a Happy New Year and best wishes for whatever life throws at you this year.

I hope you all had a great Christmas. I know I did. We moved into our house last November and spent Xmas 09 at our Grannies, so this year it was our first proper Christmas at home. We had our Grandparents and Aunt and Uncle to our house for the day, which was really lovely. I had many great presents and really enjoyed being with family for the whole day.

Now to the love story part. I have a new love in my life. No, not a boy (I wish!! :D), instead it's a camera. We got a new camera after Christmas, a SLR. Well, I say we, really I mean Mum, but anyway I absolutely love it. Mum hasn't really had it in her hands much, I've been snapping away instead!! It's so great to finally have a SLR in the household though. I've been revisiting some of my 12 days of Christmas modules to see how it compares to the original photos I took.

Here is some of the photos I've taken so far.

One of the great appeals of a SLR is the fabulous apertures they can achieve. I absolutely love photos with a shallow depth of field, I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!! I really love these photos, lets just say there were a few gasps of breath when I saw how these came out, it just goes to show what amazing apertures this camera can achieve. :)

Just another few Christmas snaps with the new camera, it's lovely to use and it's been great to get practising before the Christmas decorations go away. I hope you like them.

Only one day left until I'm back at school I've more than a day's worth of revision to squash in!! I have exams the following week and am slightly nervous of these, something about them being AS grades makes them slightly more scary than GCSE's!!!

Anyway, that's enough from me for now, I just had to tell you about our new camera. ;D

Bye for now,
Hannah