I’m currently participating in a workshop alongside some of the wonderful photographers I met during the previous workshop I took part in earlier this year.  It’s lovely to have them with me again.  I’m so impressed with the work I’ve seen come from the retreat so far.  A self portrait was part of the first week’s projects.  To move away from the usually smiley and colourful past photos of myself, I thought I might do the opposite to keep things interesting!  And I’ll share it with you here…  I promise, I’m happy on the inside.  M x

Welcome to the brand new, shiny, improved, hopefully fabulous blog ~ and website for Mel Riddell!  Please have a look around and make yourselves at home.  This has been an extremely steep learning curve for me (sometimes resulting in sliding backwards a few feet here and there) but I have to say, I’m really proud that I managed to put this together and I hope you will love it too.  There have been many ‘light bulb moments’ along the journey as difficult things suddenly became clear (inspiring the accompanying photo) and I never would have been able to do it without the support of all of you.  I want to thank the very talented Lib Creative for designing my beautiful home page ‘Mel Riddell’ logo, and for my lovely friend Jody for explaining things to me at the start.  I would love to hear any feedback you have about the site.  Keep watching for more photos from last week’s shoot!  M x

Following my last post about the July Challenge, here is Day 9 – Opposites.  What more appropriate theme for a photographer?  M x

Last month I took part in a 30 Day Photography Challenge (you can read about it here).  Some of my photography friends and I enjoyed it so much, we decided we would try a new one for July.  I’m doing my best to keep up with as many days as possible.  It’s such an addictive activity, waiting for each day’s topic and searching for the best answer to it.  I wanted to share with you two photos from this month so far…  Day 3 – Insect, and Day 7 – Glass.  M x