Links lately

Spring, outside of the Natural History Museum, London, 2015.

Since I have been busy with piano practice, teaching, conducting the newly formed church choir for our evening service, and organising our home (unpacking boxes) lately, these links are mostly related to travel, photography, organisation, videos editing, and spring!
-These two vloggers: one based in London/LA (she brings back good memories of studying masters in the UK and traveling in London) and the other in Seoul. Their recent travels to Europe motivated me to look through my photo archives for the many photos I took in Europe and edit them using lightroom (see my recent uploads on my Europe blog)
-Bellywellyjelly and Jessica Whitaker are two bloggers/photographers who made me want to edit photos in adobe lightroom and take more portraits/tell more stories.
-Music: the free music archive to discover new music done by individuals and available for downloads for personal projects; I enjoy listening to the OSTs of the kdrama "The liar and his lover", IU's new 'Palette' album, and Roy Kim's 'Bloom' album lately. For a less upbeat spring music, listen to Yesung's Paper Umbrella album.
-This home organisation/cleaning method that I had heard before in the UK but watching a youtuber does it and explain it makes it more motivating to follow (partially of course because any method has its strengths and suitability)
-Favourite instagrammers: Imkristen with her family stories, Lydiajane and her travels/art stories, and sigridsminde (the kittens! & her blog).
-Book: D.L. Moody's "The Overcoming Life"

Tea time in York, 2012

I read several posts by different bloggers about how to better iphone photos this morning and I realised that it really is about the basics of how to take a good photograph:
1. natural lighting (direction of light)
2. composition (rule of 3rds, leading lines)
3. focus (and creating depth in the background)
4. get close enough to the subject
5. think about what you want to capture/why do you want to take a photograph of that moment and then take the photo