Sunset...Moonrise...and a fox.

The sky the other night in Dublin was amazing so I decided to actually bring my camera out and use it for what it is meant for for once and not just for my own vanity's sake!

By the time I got home the sun was almost set and I only caught the last few glimpses of it from my vantage point of standing on a chair in my back garden.

The night was so beautifully clear, and I took the rest of these photos down at Sandymount beach where I attempted, failing miserably, to take my first ever night photos; playing around with shutter speeds. My aim for the summer is to get to know at least something about photography and to learn how to use my camera. 

Just booked a trip to Central America for August, so hopefully that will give me some new inspiration to photograph!

I also saw a fox!

techNOlogy

I dropped my phone on the concrete floor of the Mechanical Engineering workshop today.

It wasn't too happy.

Ballerina, you must have seen her...

Since the age of two I've taken ballet class, that's almost 19 years now. It's one of the things in my life I've done for the longest, only out run by breathing, walking and all the other essentials. I often wonder what it would have been like to do it as a career. I don't regret not doing it, I actually honestly could not see myself doing anything but engineering and I'm so glad I chose it but dancing would have just been a different path. I'm happy I didn't do it as a career though, the life of a dancer is one of the most difficult there is, not just regarding the physical strain on one's body but also the emotional impact of constantly striving to be better and the perpetual competition for the spot as prima ballerina. Dancing as a hobby is something I hope never to give up though, we all need something that we love that doesn't seem like effort to partake in; for me, it's ballet.

After two and a half years at college, Trinity has finally started ballet classes on campus and last Wednesday I went along to the first one. It was packed, and not just with girls. It's odd that this clear high demand for ballet classes in college had not been addressed sooner but I'm glad it now has. The classes are relaxed and informal, suited to all levels and I'm thrilled that they've started them. 

Here's to many more years of ballet.

And yes, that is a cut out of Jeremy Clarkson in my pointe shoe.

2011 in Photos

New Year's 2011

Skiing Les Deux Alpes 

Valentine's/20th Birthday

Engineering Masquerade Ball

Hat

Ferris Beuler jacket from Dan

Freddie

Trinity Ball

Home Bedroom

Building homeless shelters (and holding my camera wrong!) (photos by Chloe @ thetraintattoo)

New Fringe

Chicago

Bed Bugs

Gay Pride San Fran

Berekely, California

Berkeley Marina

Meeting Jeremey Messersmith with Dan

Shadows

Strawberry Shortcake

Viva Las Vegas

Anniversary Make-Up

1 year on

Winter (photo by Chloe @ thetraintattoo)

Christmas