I Love Wight Christmas.

Last weekend Moon and I took ourselves over to the Isle of Wight to stay with our friends, Stacy and Pip and catch up with all our Uni friends before Christmas and the New Year. I feel like we've been much better at keeping in touch this year than we have previous years and I quite like that.





We did Secret Santa which was super-fun - I got a sweet cushion with Doll's face on it from Simon - went to a gem of a pub called The Taverners, ate some pretty amazing food and finished up the evening with beer pong to get our energy levels up(!)

Photo A Day April: Day 05-06

Day 05 — Tiny

We went out for a few more drinks after quizzing yesterday, hence my absence. I sure hope Newbury is better value for money. This is a pretty lazy attempt, but in fairness the drinks in Dorking are tiny.
Day 06 — Lunch

I think I stuck pretty rigidly to today's theme, Moon made me a delicious salad for lunch. He was sampling some of the leaves he got from Steve's Leaves, major perk I'm enjoying from his job so far. We were on our own for most of today and he is much more how he used to be now he has a job, it's really nice, actually.

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This morning's work.


I think I'm going to go to the printers now and get about five done to post out, they're going to be A2 size but fold into an A4 booklet. I want to at least see how it will look in print. I thought I might really need to start grabbing some attention to get going places.

This has been suggested many times through many different platforms and I hope that it doesn't some how end up too samey in comparison to others. Essentially all I've really done is fancied up a standard CV.. but I think it has potential to look quite good. I may give it another go if these end up looking crap, this is just a rough draft, a kind of experiment.

I worry that it's a bit restricting in terms of what jobs I can apply for with it, but I think I'm going to try I'm aiming for publishers and digital agencies, it's worth a shot anyway.

Happy 4th January!

And happy new year, etc.

I would apologise for my absence but I've been quite busy, and productive so I won't say anything, except hello!
I have a backlog of photos to share with you. Mainly from NYE, which was actually quite fun, until Moon and I ended up on his sofa at 3:30am watching Glastonbury highlights that we'd already seen. A bit of Ring of Fire always brings people together, but more on that in a future post.

Right now, I'm sat here typing to you because after literally months of promising (really you can check up if you want), I finally got round to uploading and posting my online portfolio. I'm actually quite pleased with it, so thank you Digital Photo Gallery, you are simplistic and just what I wanted.
The only thing I am having slight issues with is that my 'About' page looks odd, but it will do for the time-being as I think I'm overdone on the whole thing after spending the last two days on it.

The New Year was definitely a good excuse to get it over and done with because after having put it off basically since graduating, I'm fairly certain that I needed a reason for a little get up and go. I mean, I dabbled in making one from scratch and if I was honest with myself and really tried, I could probably have breezed through it, but sadly, I have a tendency to be quite lazy and would rather just refresh my social presences all day.

I external-linked to this blog because I've grown far too attached to it to create a new one for the soul purpose of having everything integrated. I also linked to my old Photography Tumblr for my University work for the sheer ease, but also due to the fact that had I not, I would have to list each project in the sidebar (unless someone can tell me otherwise), which would definitely look crap, and the Tumblr isn't too dissimilar to my portfolio anyway, plus no one will actually be leaving the site.

So I'm fairly pleased with it anyway, and feeling a lot more confident in my abilities as a photographer now that I've categorised and ordered everything and it's out there for real people to see. It would be nice to have some feedback on it.

Link: http://www.ruthjohnstonphotography.com

On the job front, there is nothing that exciting, although I'm sure there are people still bleary-eyed from their first day back. I'm going to give everything a bit more time as most of the emails I've sent out were over Christmas so I wasn't expecting an immediate response anyway.
I have got an interview tomorrow though, not sure if it's creative as the description was a bit vague and the title was kind of general, I'm still looking forward to it though, it sounds like it has potential to be interesting.
This is not very 'me' for my first blog of 2012, but I thought you should know that I have a portfolio now and that I've begun the year with an attempt to be less lazy and do the one thing I should have done the previous year.

Desktop: 15/08/2011

Quite like being nosey and looking at other people's desktops, so I thought I'd start to 'document' mine. I don't think I particularly change it that often, but we'll see how it goes.

Think that I will be more likely to work on my website once I have a desk again — I'm currently at my Gran's — and when I'm out of 'holiday' mode; it's my birthday tomorrow then there are few family events before I head off to France next Friday. I signed up for another recruitment agency this afternoon and I have an sign-up interview with another one on Thursday, let's hope that something comes from it. I'd really like to have something to occupy my time for a bit, although I'm sure the website will be fun, *derp.