Autumn diptychs

Oh its grey here! the nights are getting darker earlier and I am determined to search out beauty where I can. The autumn colours are hard to beat, I love the deep pinks, yellows, and browns in nature don't you?

October

 I have read three newsletters this morning and all have been sponsored, makes you think doesn't it? sooo much is sponsored nowadays, when will it end and we go back to people just being normal and not needed to be paid to say they like something. If instagram didn't have that #sponsored or #paidpost next to it I would be fooled most of the time as I believe the best of people. My daughter works in media in the food industry and was telling me that one woman I follow on instagram charges five thousand pounds a post! 

Anyway, I digress as usual. Here are the things I have liked recently and I haven't been paid for anything at all. 

I recently went on holiday (actually it was only last week but the rain and cold has washed away my tan and my holiday mode) where I read four books and would recommend the following three - the first one I thought was so amazingly well written, she has honed her craft over the last few years with her books and this one gets my full five star rating on goodreads - the echoes by evie wyld - it jumps between Australia and London, it is so well done it makes you re read sentences and wish you had thought of that, won't give too much away but it's about a girl living in London and her past, I urge you to read it. I felt bad about reading it on a beach as it did warrant more time than a holiday read. 

The second book I loved was Going home by Tom Lamont - a truly wonderful, poignant book about raising a child, it was so lovely and I do admit to having a little cry whilst reading it. 

Finally, Robert Harris the precipice he just ticks all the boxes for a good holiday read, even though it's fiction, you know that he has researched meticulously. It is the story of Herbert Asquith and his lover and just what went on whilst he was supposed to be preparing for war is just unbelievable. 

I have been watching a few things on television. I am still loving Pachenko on Apple, highly recommend it. I also just finished Nobody wants this,  it was just so nice and funny and sweet, with Kirstin Bell. I also watched the perfect couple with Nicole Kidman looking thirty again......yawn......

Here autumn has arrived and halloween stuff is in all the shops. We have put the heating on and I am sitting in a cashmere cardigan that is over thirty years old and belonged to my husband but it's my comfort jumper (we all have one of those don't we?) I am seriously thinking of learning to darn, does anyone know how to darn?

My photography has stalled lately, I again can't think of what to photograph and need some inspiration to get a project going. Here are some pictures I took whilst in Turkey. Enjoy October and do let me know if you have been doing anything interesting lately. 

London life

I watched an interesting interview with a photographer the other day and he said he has lots of projects he dips in and out of. I have been in the habit of taking a photo a day or doing 30 days of something but his idea appealed to me more and I realised that I have actually got a few things on the go without realising. I have one side which is my nature photography and another that is more London life where I try and get everyday "edgy"photographs, glimpses of London life. Here is a selection I have taken recently out on the streets or on on the tube. What projects do you have on the go?