Dreaming Of The Seaside.

Hi everyone,
I'm back with a set of photos that I've been fairly excited to get online, I enjoyed taking these shots at the time and I knew that they were going to be a lot of fun to edit.
I've never really taken photos in RAW format before, shock horror and I know someone should give me a slap on the wrist for it but I have started trying to slowly bring it in to my photography routine...although sometimes I forget to turn on the RAW option so forgive me for forgetting the last time, now it's on for good though! Anyway I did luckily remember this time around as I was predominately photographing the clouds which kept coming out too flat so this instantly reminded me to switch on the RAW option, and thank goodness I did as it really brings back all of the lost quality that JPEG seems to take away.


Back to the idea of the seaside theme, I've actually recently discovered an artist called Tracy Savage on an outing around Broughty Ferry's local gallery. I am in total awe of her unique and quirky painting style so much that I had to buy a couple of prints for my room. I posted an instagram photo of the prints, I bought 'The Grand' and 'Bridge Keepers', two beautiful paintings that caught my eye, but I do feel I may go back for one of the VW camper van pictures, such a 70's beach vibe and I love it!
On another note, I'm glad I've finally photographed Broughty Ferry Castle, who would have thought it would have taken all of this time to get around to photographing places in your hometown? haha! However, I am proud of the shots I managed to get even if it was a bit of an overcast day, I like those kind of photos as it makes the location look way more moody, which seems to be something I bring out in my landscape pictures a lot, haha!


Anyway, I've still got lots more shots to upload and I'm already thinking about what's next, I've definitely missed taking landscape photographs!
Nicola. x

Spring Begins.

It's that time of the year again...Spring!! I don't know if anyone has been feeling the same as me, but I've been so uninspired with the the winter weather, I'm so glad it's finally sunny, and a little bit warmer!
Really sorry about the lack of updates on my blog in the past month, if you would like to see more daily updates from me, please check out my Twitter, I'm constantly 'tweeting' on there all the time (I love it, eek!) http://www.twitter.com/nicolasharkey
I'm still in the middle of finishing lots of work at the moment, hence why there hasn't been much news on here, but please, keep checking back, it means the world to me, and hopefully I will have some really awesome things to tell you all soon.
Oh, and I just wanted to add, you must all go out and buy Mystery Jets third album, 'Serotonin', it's absolutely amazing! 'Dreaming Of Another World' is one of my favourite songs at the moment, it's completely beautiful!
Some of the other awesome artists I've been listening at the moment are, Josh Weller, The Maccabees, Be Your Own Pet, and Warpaint.

Onto photos, I thought I would post some of my recent landscape/urban shots that I've taken over the last month.
Hope you like them,
Nicola x