Blog Posts - AlexandraSD
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Times Change...
My last visit to London was in November last year to see Sigur Ros play the Brixton o2 Academy, staying in Brixton overnight, so I didnt really get to see much else of London aside from through the windows of an Uber upon my arrival, its been a few ...0
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18 Jun 2023 11:57AM | Read
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Missing In Action
To say I have been away from ePz is an understatement, not intentionally you know. So we all know about covid I think, have you heard of it? Some buffoon told us to stay at home for months on end while him and his mates were pissing themselves laugh...0
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8 Apr 2022 4:03PM | Read
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Red Lights Blue Lights
I guess this blog is turning into a "mood board", or just somewhere to jot down my ideas and plans for photoshoots, so here goes... I did a little test shoot at a certain location somewhere... reveal not shall i... and it went ok, i used some red ge...0
3 Aug 2020 3:36AM | Read
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Back lighting the rain.
One shoot I am planning, will involve yet more rain, but this time i want to back light the rain properly, so it really shows the downpour around me, otherwise it is not worth getting wet for in my opinion. So the plan is simply to head to another a...0
2 Aug 2020 1:49AM | Read
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Inspired by a car wash.
I recently took some self portraits in front of the most colourful carwash in the universe at night time. My outfit for that shoot was ok, nothing special, needless to say, it wasnt the most planned shoot i have ever done. I better fix it! In Januar...0
25 Jul 2020 2:56PM | Read
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Keeping things fresh
Febreeze doesnt really help. not really, it just masks the problems! In regard to my self portraits, I recently thought it high time to really get those images done that I have wanted to do for some time now, but have not really found the right time...0
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12 Jul 2020 5:35AM | Read
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My Covid19 Experience
For 7 weeks now i have been unwell, bad cold, nasty cough, same unwell feeling i get every year for a couple of weeks, but this has now been almost 7 weeks, ever since i came back from wiltshire to norfolk, where i live. Saturday night i felt fine, s...0
6 Apr 2020 2:47PM | Read
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How I Take Self Portraits
My First Love My first photograph that I ever took with a camera, was on the beach at Heacham during a family holiday in west norfolk. My dad had a Kodak disc camera, and I was enthralled by this weird device. I was probably 6 or 7 years old at the ...0
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6 Apr 2020 5:57AM | Read
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The burden of clutter
Recently i decided to put some camera gear on ebay, and in doing so i have streamlined my gear to such a degree that it now all fits into my billingham hadley pro bag, well, most of it... Ok, so i actually have 2 camera bags, the billingham which no...0
22 Mar 2018 2:07PM | Read
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First time selling gear on ebay
Been an ebay member for years but never sold anything on there until now. I won a Canon M5 on this site in the prize draw, the adaptor that came with it allowed me to use my old 90-300mm zoom lens on it for some bird photography. Ahhh, just like the...0
24 Feb 2018 4:20PM | Read
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Studio Shoot at Studio One
For my 44th birthday I thought I would treat myself to a photoshoot in a studio, well, it is a rather cold and bleak january, and i don't really do the cold! So, i booked the shoot for the day of my birthday, and decided to use my speedlights instead...0
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14 Jan 2018 3:04PM | Read
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New Job =)
I lost my job at Ikea in 2015, last year i lived off all my savings deciding what i was to do next. This year i decided to volunteer at a charity shop, and later on in the cafe of another local charity. Last friday I had a job interview for cafe as...0
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22 Sep 2017 4:45PM | Read
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My latest camera...
Another little catch up :) At the weekend I decided to treat myself to a new camera, well, a new second hand camera. The Fujifilm X-E2! Bought from Wex in Norwich obviously, where else would a Norfolk girl go to get her camera's? Initial impressi...0
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1 Jun 2017 1:41PM | Read
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WHat I have been up to lately!
You may be wondering, or not, why I am not as active on here as I used to be, one simple answer, I am having too much fun to go online much, or even do photography for that matter! I am devoting a lot of time currently by volunteering at a local cha...0
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4 Mar 2017 10:36AM | Read
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New camera!
I gave myself a birthday treat recently, I bought myself a new Polaroid Snap camera, those that use the Zink paper. I have been hankering after one for a while now, I was going to get the Snap Touch version, their latest model, but to be honest, wha...0
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16 Jan 2017 6:35PM | Read
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