So it's been a while since I have shared much on here, or in all honesty, anywhere on Social Media. I've been a bit scarce from it all over the past few months and I won't lie, it has been due to feeling a bit lost with everything and not knowing where or how to go forward with it all. I graduated from Uni last month and also had my 21st birthday in June. As well as those things there was the obvious EU Referendum between the two which majorly dampened my spirits- but I'll keep that for another post. 

But really, the past few months I have felt restless. I have wanted to do, make and go places but I have been feeling a bit trapped by what I am expected to be doing by those around me as well as the expectations I have for myself. My motivation has plummeted to an all time low but with the #CBloggers Meet (I haven't spoken about this here... another post for this!) in literally under two weeks I feel like I need to get back on the ball with things. So I guess, you should be seeing a bit more of me from now on and hopefully more of my favourite thing to post, photography diaries! 

I want to live in a cottage 

by the sea, 

and listen to the waves as they

soothe my restless heart

- Unknown

Location: Rock Pools, Cowie, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Time of Day: Mid-afternoon
Weather: Overheard clouds with some warm sun.
Camera/Lens: Canon EOS100D + 18-55mm
Reason for going: Afternoon walk for when I for once have a Sunday off!

Once again I took a trip to the woods near me and I could go on about how beautiful it was, etcetc, but instead I'm taking a leaf out of Caitlin's book (no pun intended) and just noting down the important bits with a few good links and a fantastic piece of poetry. 

Take me to a quiet place, 

with earth under our backs, 

cradled in a forest glade. 

There, we will point out

things we see, and

acknowledge those things

we do not. In solitude,

we take in the wisdom

offered in each other and

take in the hum of the 

forest.

-Pheobe Wahl

Time of Day: Mid-afternoon
Weather: Sunshine, blue skies, cool with a bit of wind.
Mood: Tranquil, inspired, and calm.
Camera/Lens: Canon EOS100D + 18-55mm
Reason for going: Adventure with Darren, taking some uni photos
Fails: Battery started dying just when I started getting into a great feeling. 

Links:

Caitlin's space

Dunnottar Woods

(Note: The gifs are huge files, so if they're going a bit slow just wait a minute or two and they should sort themselves out)

On Saturday afternoon once I had finished work, Darren and I had a little trip up to Dunnottar Woods. I've obviously had a few trips up there, including this one from last year but Darren has never been up there before so some serious exploration was on the cards!

I'm pretty sure over the years I've had numerous visits to the woods and seen pretty much all of it but there was areas that we went to that just felt so new and so raw to me that the beauty of them blew me away. At some point I honestly felt like I had been transported to a magical world filled with pixies and faeries and gnomes. 

And back to reality. Honestly though I absolutely love being surrounded by nature and getting lost in it and with camera in hand, I was ready to capture the magic!

On Wednesday I received a voucher in the post from Frankie & Benny's to use in one of their restaurants after a photo of mine had been used on the social media. Since it was a lovely day Darren suggested to have a wander down to the beach/Cadonas in Aberdeen and it would also count as a little birthday treat for me since it's my 20th on Sunday! 

Of course with starting YouTube and also wanting some more stuff for this blog, but yeah also just cause I love taking photos I thought I'd share a post from some of the photos I took while we were there! This post isn't so much like the other Cadonas photo diary I shared last year as a lot of the photos I did take where down on the beach as I love taking naturey photos! Honestly, you see the 'OhHay!' thing made out of shells? Took me a good half an hour/45 minutes to find all the shells/rocks and put it together just to get a photo and video of it! 

But yeah anyway, we just spent the afternoon down on the beach then into the evening we had a few games of pool, mini golf, our tea at F&B's and some shots on the ticket machines! However, it'll be in next weeks vlog so you can see it fully then!
In the mean time, you can check out last weeks vlog here! Let me know what you think

<3