I borrow my guy's camera and have a play sometimes; he doesn't mind and has even showed me a few settings like the on and off button, the button thing that takes the photos and how to get the lens cap off so all my photos aren't pitch black.

I'd been drawing, coloring in technically, in one of those intricate little coloring books for adults and had my pencils out still so I thought I'd see what I could capture with the camera at the same time. I've called this post hot and cold because red implies hot and blue...well I think you get the idea.

I did the image above to hint at the balance between the two opposing colors and, imagining them as hot and cold or fire and water, the balance that exists in nature. I guess I was trying to think creatively.

The image below looks just a little like a love heart to me and I like that. I was trying to capture the imperfections in the tips of the pencils but I think I did something wrong. I used a torch to light the tips but maybe I messed it up. The happy fact that it kind of resembles a love heart works though, for me it does anyway.

This last image I don't have a name for but I was thinking chaos or maybe detritus might work.

It's the shavings off the pencils from when I was sharpening them and I guess I like the contrast of red and blue, the way they mix together, and the abstract and haphazard way they have fallen.

I almost didn't post these into the photography community because they don't seem good enough but after thinking on it I decided that photography is still photography whether it is good or bad.