by Kate Lloyd | Mar 5, 2021 | Gift Ideas, In lockdown, Multiple exposure, practicalities, technical, Travel
I’ve been working on developing abstract images, and I’m ready to share some with you now. Pattern recognition is an inbuilt preference for our brains and this is key to looking at abstract images. Some are really unrecognisable abstract images and in some...
by Kate Lloyd | Mar 4, 2021 | In lockdown, Multiple exposure, technical, Travel
I think I have mentioned that I was in Venice in January 2020. Oh my goodness, I am absolutely longing to go back – it seems such a very long time ago! One of the brilliant things I’ve been doing in lockdown is to learn a new skill in photography, so I...
by Kate Lloyd | Feb 25, 2021 | In lockdown, personal history
Prompted by a cousin’s feedback on the grape hyacinths newsletter, asking for more on my mother, I thought it must be time for another family chapter. If you’re a Wodehouse fan like me, you’ll know that Bertie Wooster has two Aunts. One, Aunt Agatha,...
by Kate Lloyd | Feb 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Have you seen any signs of Spring? I am on the lookout as we walk around our increasingly familiar routes on the Surrey Hills. In the garden we have our first snowdrops, always the herald of spring and it’s just as well because we planted about 300 corms last...
by Kate Lloyd | Feb 7, 2021 | In lockdown, personal history
I mentioned school in an earlier blog, and thought I might tell you about how I learned to read. My brother is a little bit older than me and one day, when I was 3 years old, he sat me down and allegedly said “I’d better teach you to read, because once you...
