Eyeshoot Photography and Food has a new home!

I have moved this blog over to my new site - you can find it here: http://www.eyeshoot.co.uk look on the top menu and click on 'WP Blog' and you'll find posts from Sunday 3rd March with all of my old posts following on.

If you 'Follow' the blog with Google Friend Connect, I have moved you over automatically!


Please be patient with me while I settle into my new blog home, it's rather a different arrangement than Blogger which I am very used to, but hopefully I'll be in the swing of it soon.


I hope you continue to enjoy my ramblings and photos and on my new site, you'll be able to see my photography portfolios and my photo projects too.

The Writing's on the Wall - Graffiti Themed Treasury.

Inspired by my feature on Midday Masterpiece  I've put togeterh a graffiti themed Treasury filled with a load of great pieces from prints to wall decals to coasters and beautiful photographic prints  - in fact, there's something for everyone!

The Writing's on the Wall by Eyeshoot Photography

Coasting

I had a fun time making my first two sets of coasters last week, especially as the weather was so lovely and I could do all of the messy stuff outside on the terrace in the surprisingly hot sun.

I have made two sets (I need to source more coasters to use to make more) so far, one with my Double Yellow Lines photos which I also have for sale as a sweet print set:

Here's how they look as coasters, I've given them three coats of semi-matte varnish and they have a slight textured finish, I think they look great!

A set of four Double Yellow Lines Coasters

I've also made up a set with my Heart and Love Graffiti pictures (also available as a six part print set)

 

A set of four Graffiti Hearts and Love Coasters

This particular set has been featured on the excellent Midday Masterpiece blog - you can see all of the other lovely graffiti inspired pieces here!  Thank you to Melissa for featuring my work.

Making photo coasters in the sun on the terrace

Making photo coasters in the sun on the terrace, originally uploaded by Eyeshoot Photography.

I've been making a start on a new line of photo goodies for my Etsy shop - photo coasters! As it's such a lovely day I've been experimenting with varnish and other messy things out in the hot sunshine on the terrace - it's all drying really quickly!

I've made two sets of four coasters so far, one with my double yellow line pictures and another with a selection of hearts and love graffiti. So far so good!

They should be appearing in my shop soon.....

I'm donating 25% of my sales to the Japan fund at The Red Cross

I will be donating 25% of my earnings from prints, print sets and Mini Picture Blocks to the British Red Cross' fund for Japan.  Click here to see the items in my Etsy shop included in this event.

Treasury Attack!

I've made an unprecedented three Treasuries in the last two days, the reason I've had a splurge is that I found an amazing tool which automatically Convos all the people you've included.  I used to hate doing this bit of the process as Firefox used to crash continuously and drive me mad.  This miracle tool is on the fabulously named Shmetsy, you just install it and when you've compiled your Treasury and pressed 'Save' a little box pops up with the link to the Treasury and a line tells the recipient they are included, you can change the blurb to whatever you like, press 'send' and off all the Convos go, not crashing anything.  Magic!

Here are the three Treasuries I've so enjoyed making this week!

Avocado and Prawn Cocktail

White and Orange

Into the Blue

Mother's Day Certificate

It's all very well making mother's day cards with beautiful flowers but I wanted to offer something a bit different, so am pleased to announce my 'Mother's Day Certificate'! Customers can customise it to suit their preference, replacing 'Mother' with mum, mummy, mom or whatever and obviously their name will replace 'Sarah' or it can be left blank so it can be hand signed.

Happy Mother's Day Certificate by Sarah Franklin

Recent Treasuries on Etsy featuring my work.

I've not posted any for a while, so here's a batch of lovely Treasuries to look at and buy things from! Thank you to all of the curators who have kindly included my stuff.

Tulips from Amsterdam (or somewhere)

We had lunch at the intimidating sounding International Anthony Burgess Foundation which just happens to have a splendid (if rather hot in the glaring sun) cafe.  There were some beautiful tulips on the table which were calling out to be photographed.  The actual red background was much more saturated and intense than in my finished photo, but impressive as it was, it just didn't work in the photo.  I find too much solid, flat red difficult to work with and it somehow always looks very odd.

Tabletop Tulips - by Sarah Franklin