Zoe-Lee Skelton

On my many adventures, I tend to stumble across some interesting things. And in true scavenger style, I’ll pocket them.

This is possibly my most macabre find; a rabbit skull. In fact it was found as part of an almost complete skeleton. The bones were laid out in near enough the physical form of a rabbit, as if the body had wilted like a flower, and decomposed.

So that’s what I tried to achieve with this shot. I desaturated the picture to take life out of the petals. It’s called “The Killing”

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Some of my most memorable days began by getting in the car and driving.

Last Sunday was one of those days.

This time, we ended up in the historical city of Ely, and it would have been negligible of me if I didn’t take a photo of the towering cathedral.

We ventured inside and managed to get caught up in a service. We were ushered to one side as the procession passed and I had terrible visions of my big moon head appearing in the background of an episode of “Songs of Praise”.

Luckily this didn’t happen. I escaped quickly and snapped a couple more ground level shots.

I decided to layer them up to try to replicate the sense of vertigo I felt.

Here’s day 12’s photo:

Here’s a sitting duck; or rather, a sitting female grouse.

I managed to quickly snap a picture of this notorisouly stupid bird before it garbled off into the purple heath. 

I hope she didn’t meet her demise soon afterwards.

I call this one: Target Practice

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It was pretty cold yesterday, and as a tiny person, I prefer to nap in front of the fire than brave the cold winds in February.

But, my boyfriend managed to convince me to go for a walk around Ampthill Park. I’m glad I did because I got some awesome shots of his son flying his 6ft kite.

Everyone at the park seemed to be in awe of this kite ripping through the air lifting my boyfrind’s son off the ground – including one dog who barked tirelessly at the kite (you’ll see the little scamp below!). Even I had a go but I was nearly blown away and never seen again

Like I said, I got some awesome shots, so I’ve got a couple of photos for you today – but here’s my favourite:

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I made some canine friends

I get the impression this dog didn’t like his owner as he wouldn’t leave my side. I like his face:

And here’s a really cute couple sitting on Breakheart hill:

 

Hope you liked these : )

As soon as I upgraded to a DSLR I was desperate to create beautiful imagery with beautiful depth of field.

There’s something that draws me to a picture where the atmosphere has been captured from the focal point of something within the scene. Kind of like an internal framing mechanism. But maybe there’s a technical photographic term for it.

Anyway, this is what I’ve attempted to do with today’s picture. In the foreground, a scavenger looks at me, whilst also looking out to Brighton Pier. I’ve called it “Crow Fair”