Vesna Armstrong Photography

When I feel it is time to do a still life I cannot rest till I come up with something. Inspired by some lovely images on Flickr I have wanted to create an outdoor still life for quite a long time. Living on the edge of a nice park means I do not have to go very far at all to find a suitable background or to carry my props to. I realized it was a perfect time of the year to have a go at an outdoor image with grasses growing tall, some dandelions still flowering while others are turning into the fluffy blowballs, and first buttercups just starting to spring up. It didn't take me long to know what I wanted to photograph. It had to be an image to satisfy my romantic soul and, as always, my love for vintage. It was also going to be about presence of people, a notion I got attracted to through looking at Trevillion Images photos. So out goes my antique chair I sit on at the computer, my recently bought floppy hat, an old book and a vintage style bottle filled with summer fruit squash. Th...

The 22nd of April was the day after the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte's birthday and the day before my own birthday. There was no better way for me to treat myself than spend a couple of days in Haworth, despite missing Charlotte's celebrations. I arrived around 12:30 p. m., dropped my overnight bag off to the Old Registry Bed & Breakfast, where I was going to check in later on, and made my way leisurely up the steep cobbled Main Street towards the Bronte Parsonage. No matter how many times I have walked here I always feel excited and extremely pleased to do so again. It was a beautiful, sunny day, but just a tad on the nippy side. The very first scene that made me take my camera out and start taking pics. It speaks about some of the reasons why I love Haworth - quirky, independent shops, old houses, embracing seasons.... The delightful wheel cart outside the Embers of Haworth restaurants always contains seasonal flowers. It is such an attractive and invitin...

As a photographer I have never been overly interested in the equipment, and have always believed that photography is not about what camera and lenses you use but what you do with them. You can take great pictures with a simple and inexpensive camera as long as you have a bit of flair and know how. However, the image quality does improve with technology, and that is something every keen photographer wants to keep up with. I decided that my 6-7 year old, second hand acquired Nikon D40x DSLR was a bit out of date by now and have upgraded to a D7100 .  For my outdoor work I had been using two zoom lenses, an 18mm-55mm and 55mm-200mm, but to be fair I could hardly ever be bothered to change to the latter, so I thought I'd try an "all in one" lens, the one that spans the focal lengths of both lenses - an 18mm - 200mm. I was a bit worried about its weight when attached to a camera body bigger and heavier than the one I had, but after testing the weight at the local Jessop...