Playing Catch-up [Part III] - TCPS Garden Party

[TCPS = Trinity College Photography Society]

I'm involved with TCPS not because I'm uber-duber-keen-on-photography but because the 4 committee positions are held by friends. Nevertheless, we banter (to use the term loosely) about photography and I ask them for advice on how to maximise the utility derived from Elmo (wow, I have missed writing economics essays :P).

I didn't get any proper posing shots but there are a few of me eating (as always) and playing croquet!

Vintage jacket - Parallel by Emanuel Ungaro | Dress - TK Maxx | Shoes - Bhs | Freshwater pearls - eBay

Myself and Tess

Croquet is a lot harder than it looks, but I blame my lack of luck on the non-flat grass :D (Does croquet actually count as a sport? :S)

Also, thanks to the TCPS committee members for organising and especially to Catherine Gu for making Gu-esque chocolate brownies. Yummmmmm!

Yummmmm ^_^

MW x

MW x Paparazzi

As it's all busy revising throughout Cambridge at the moment, it would be evil of me to harass my friends for photos so I decided to take Elmo out on a stroll. 

I love Elmo ^_^
Shirt - mens TK Maxx | Trousers - 7 For All Mankind | Watch - Iceberg | Necklace - Car boot sale

I found this moveable goldtone fish for £1! Bargain :D

It was a lovely day and I looked like a Chinese tourist walking through College with my camera. Actually, I felt like a tourist too. Except tourists wouldn't take a photo of their friend with rolled-up hems.

Distilled, chilled student style.



The Wren Library (?) - Omilordy, I don't believe I've been here two years without knowing if this is the Wren or not.

 

The river Cam, complete with punters and geese!

Apparently it's going to rain tomorrow so I'm glad I managed to get these photos in time!


MW x


PS - here's a little project I worked on for about an hour.

Before

After

My tissue box is right next to my desk so when I look over, the Sainsbury's Basics box made me unhappy so I cut up a product magazine (for Pia) instead and now it makes me smile everytime I see it ^_^


PPS - (directed at one of my favouritest people) sorry, no out-takes today :(

Luncheon with the Master

One of the perks of being a student caller for Trinity's first ever Telephone Campaign is that we get to have lunch with the Master (ok ok, other colleges do this too, but I want to believe that our Master is harder to secure for a lunch date :P).

The weather was pretty good and I played with Elmo (see here) in the Master's Garden (note: this is not the Fellow's Garden which can be booked by students/societies, only Fellows can book this one, hehe ^_^).

The top of St. John's College

Trying to capture the sun's rays

After lunch (it seemed like a lot of food at the time but I was hungry after I got home :S), we went outside and went snappy-happy for a photo that will appear in the next issue of one of Trinity's alumni magazines.

Harhar, guess who was lucky enough to sit next to the Master? ^_^

The Telephone Campaign crew, albeit not all of us :(

The Master and myself (I know I have huuge bags under my eyes. Blame exam term)

We were already dressed up so decided to get up close and personal with the Fountain ^_~
Photo courtesy of Charles J. Barlow

Ok, so I didn't actually get a proper outfit photo but I have cropped the above to give you an idea of what I wore.

Stripey blazer - Chinese market; black vest - Primark; black shorts - trouser cutoffs; transparent dress - vintage eBay; wedges - Korkease; oversize clutch - belated birthday present I received today from the bestest person ever! :D

So, all in all, a good day, and yes, I did manage to get away with wearing near-hotpants in the Master's presence *small victory dance*

^_^


MW x

Arbitrarily setting aperture...

In preparation for the arrival of my new camera (yippee!), I decided to take my Canon Powershot SX210IS (aka. the Friends Camera according to Phil; I wanted to call it Cody or Kobe or something K-sounding) outside and play with the manual setting.

I'm not reallllyyy quite sure about how they turned out, but here goes:

My (+13 other people's) house! 
Putting my "reading lots of reviews about cameras"-cap on - I think it currently suffers from "barrel distortion"?

Some flower thingies that look like grapes... No idea what they're called :( Also, I think my hand wobbled.

I overheard some people outside my room discussing these flowers, and promptly forgot their names. Good thing I'm not a BioNatsci.
Actually, I think this would've turned out better in "Auto" or "Easy" mode. Fail.

With photo 3, I know the paved area is overexposed but I couldn't capture both the pavement AND the green leaves (they turned out pretty much black in some photos), so I opted for the leaves instead. Also, the pink petal tips are unnerving - another thing I need to learn about. Damn sun, if it had been less sunny, the patio would've made it into the photo.

I've noticed that the department that takes care of the foliage have been uber active today! There were DANGER! TREE CUTTING signs everywhere (and fallen branches to tell the tale) and the sprinklers were on outside my window :)

Happily, I managed to get some work done - haha, finally! - (but blog-whored from about 10pm onwards). Reading economics journals about something I'm interested in actually makes the time go quickly. Yay ^_^

MW x

EDIT: I just googled "big flowers" and I instantly recognised one of the first images.
PEONIES!
I should've known, considering how I've been admiring Jaeger's new dress. When Xinmei (puddingpielane.blogspot.com) and I walked into Jaeger for some browsing post-supervision, I commented that the dress looks amazing on a tall, thin mannequin/model, but alas, wouldn't do much for me :(

Image from mustgetthat.com