England's West Coast

When I did a semester in London we got to go on a free weekend trip. I chose to go on the Cornwall one because it sounded fun, pretty, and beachy. It was and I loved it. We got to stay at a surf lodge-type place, see loads of gorgeous scenery, and visit the Eden Project. Here are some of the pics I took with a horrendously bad/old digital camera:

This is my current desktop (and has been for awhile) and was taken in St. Ives. I'd totally love to live there for a summer. It's full of hilly, windy streets, cute shops, and very friendly people.

This is another of St. Ives. It's such a beautiful place.




These two are actually scanned. I took them with my SLR and scanned them with my all-in-one printer/scanner/fax so that's where the weird horizontal lines are from. I love how tropical they look, even though they are anything but tropical. It's basically on somewhere on a stop between London and Newquay on a warm February day.





These last two are from inside the temperate biome at the Eden Project. The flowers are kind of overly photoshopped but I like the effect. I also like how it looks like a kind of alien landscape.

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Seaport Shots

These are probably the most postcard-y pictures that I've taken. I took them for a photo-journalism class and the assignment was to show off composition so they're supposed to be a bit style over substance.
I started with the most postcard-y of all. I like this one because it manages to be vertical and horizontal at the same time.
This one kind of expresses how I feel about the seaport. It is touristy but, at the same time, between the bridge and the water and the old docked ships, it's kind of serene and nice.

Then this one's a bit gray and stormy and doesn't really give away the fact that these were all shot on the same day:

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