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Sunset | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography…
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Musical education: Opera for young children

Despite being Italian, I never quite understood Opera singing until in my late Twenties. Now that I am in my Forties I totally love it and understand its meaning and appreciate the skills required to perform in an opera. But I guess I have been lucky enough to have a family who loves Opera and always played it since I was born. Although it took me time to understand it, I was indirectly…
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ISO | The Exposure Triangle

In our last post Learning about Exposure I talked about the Exposure Triangle. One of the three elements of that is ISO. ISO (Which stands for International Standards Organization) is the measure of sensitivity that your camera has to light. In a way, this is a bit of a throwback to the film days and to be honest, not a completely standardised measurement in terms of quality. It is…
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Eyes | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout.
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Great ideas for days out in February

There is loads to do in and around London with your kids in February aside from the usual half-term activities, especially now that the weather is improving. Here are some great ideas for days out in February. We’re heading towards lambing season, and Bocketts Farm, just outside of London is expecting 90 lambs to be born starting on Valentine’s day. February is a great time to visit any…
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Clouds | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout.
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Learning about Exposure

If you are going to learn photography basics then there’s a few simple fundamentals that you need to understand. The first is to answer the question ‘What is Photography?’ If you’re looking for a philosophical answer to that question then read Towards a Philosophy of Photography By Vilém Flusser Otherwise think of photography as nothing more than…
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Photography basics FREE online course

Welcome to our first photography basics blog post at London Mums. Every other week we’ll be going through some photo fundamentals to help you go from shooting everything in blind automatic mode to awesome photographer (or close enough). To compliment these posts we also have a fortnightly weekly photo challenge. Every other week we’ll set a theme and your homework for…
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Fun monsters

How about a show of hands for this INCREDIBLE fun Monsters, Inc inspired nail art from Kayleigh O’Connor! The very talented, nail artist extraordinaire Kayleigh has created “Monsterised” nail art in support of the release of Monsters, Inc in 3D! You’ve got to hand it to her…she’s nailed it. Here is the trailer of the new MONSTERS, INC. 3D DISNEY•PIXAR movie: Monsters, Inc.,”…
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January 2013 Newsletter

Dear London Mums So the world is not ended and here we are in 2013, the year we were not supposed to ever get to! What will 2013 be without the buzz of the Olympics and the Jubilee? Well, for me personally it will be a year of doing all the right things (now that we know the world is not going to end 🙂 ). There will be a Royal Baby late in the Spring so I bet the media will let us know…
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