Brands That Make Me Want To Belong

I have been away again for a very long time... And I apologies for that, but I am now in uni in Cardiff studying an amazing course! One of our assignments is to write a blog (yippee for me as I really enjoy this) about 5 brands that mean something to us. So let get started shall we...

My first is Greenpeace. 

 Their logo is simple, but it does the job, the standard GREENPEACE logo is the one everyone recognises, and is green because it shows its environmentally friendly. The logo which is then second popular is the hand holding the world, which shows we are responsible for looking after it, and gently if possibly. Now I have been a member of Greenpeace for a while, and I love their website, mainly for one point... It's informative! It has everything that they are doing, where they are doing it, and what you can do to help; they have petitions people can sign, information about local groups in your area and much. The reason I'm so connected to this brand is what they do for the environment and how much good they've done so far! There 'motto' is...

We defend the natural world and promote peace by investigating, exposing and confronting environmental abuse, and championing environmentally responsible solution

They do so much from trying to stop climate change, defending the oceans, protecting the forest to eliminating toxic waste. I personally can't find any reason not to support them.

My next 'brand' is the Wildlife Trust, 

and again their logo is pretty simple, but its very effective as it draws people in with a cute picture. Their website is very easy to navigate, and you can quickly find what your looking for, it also has everything they are doing to help. What I love about the wildlife trust is it's very child friendly, it has lots of planned activities for children to take part in, in which there aim is to "create future generations that love wildlife." Which is actually one reason I'm connected to this 'brand' so much is because of its involvement of children. Also my dad used to work for them when I was younger which meant I took part in a few of there activities.

We want to inspire people about the natural world so that they value it, understand their relationship with it and take action to protect and restore it. 

They also have an excellent motto! I 100% agree that we need to show people how what they do can affect the world SO much.

This next brand is food related, and are called Nakd.

Once again this brand has a simple logo, but it says a lot. It's simply good food, 'Wholefood' taken straight from the fruit. Their website is a great place to shop for these fruity bars, and within the same company they sell trek bars, so you can also purchase them on the website. One thing I like about the website is that they have a recipe page, with some easy and tasty recipes that anyone can make. They also have information about health which is very 'eye-opening'...

      "Have you ever looked at the back of your cereal bar wrapper to see what's in it? Nearly all so'called 'healthy' snack bars undergo intense heat-processing, and are stuffed with sugary syrups and mysterious additives. Take a look at the below to see what we mean. 

"A typical cereal bar can contain as many as 30 ingredients, many of which are completly unrecognisable and several of which are actually just various types of sugar. Despite what it says on he pack we all know these heavily processed, syrup-laden and additive-filled cereal bars are not really'healthy' at all!""

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 So in my opinion they just seem like the better choice! (and they are really tasty)


Next is Vegan.com.

This logo shows so much.. To begin with its just looks like someone doing the peace sign, but the fingers are in fact the letter V, which shows that Veganism = Peace, plain and simple. Their website is all about making vegan easy and it accomplishes this with tips, guides, videos, recipes, reviews and just general information. Now if you couldn't tell already.. I'm a bit of a eco-fighting warrior... or in technical terms, I'm a Vegan, which is why I'm so connected to these 'brands'. Its something I wholeheartedly believe in; saving the environment and everything in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHkydRT3iNU


My last 'brand' is Youtube. I know this is going to be a very popular one...

Their logo is very clever as it represents that this 'brand' is all about you, the videos that pop up are decided by you. This is your stuff, your playlist, your likes, your video, your 'tube'! Youtube is an amazing website, I mean 300 hours of videos are uploaded every minute, and the hours of videos watched per month is 6 billion!! 6 billion, that's just incredible. Now the thing that attracts me the most to youtube (and its not just the funny cat videos) is the fact that you can share information, important information, and have people view it.. now amongst all the videos of people falling over and cute things there are videos that spread life changing information(such as the vegan message, or environmental statistics), and people who are doing their best to get there message out, and youtube lets them and gives them the audience they deserve, which I find is an amazing thing!

So that is it for my '5 favorite brands', I hope you enjoyed, and I'll talk to you later..

But for now I hope that you are having a wonderful day, and don't forget to Live The Life You Love, Love The Life You Live!

Photography

Yo!

So I have just got back from work, and am about to go to sleep, and I thought, seeing as I have a college deadline tomorrow, instead of doing the actual work I'd should you some of my pictures. If you guys don't mine :)

I love macro mode on my camera.. and I mean LOVE. So most of my pictures will be macro.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

This is a great example of medium depth of field, see how the foreground and background are out of focus and middle ground is in focus.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

This is also an example of medium depth of field. I don't know why but I really, REALLY like this photo.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

I love this macro shot, I feel there is some great composition.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus| 

This photo is a very good example of leading lines. See how the lines in this picture draws your eyes from right to left.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

With these next few photos, we got a chance to do semi-professional photos with giant chess pieces and random objects.... 

Using macro again, I love this piece.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

I loved the idea of using bits and bobs for this photo shoot, so I found an old bit of metal piping and I believe it worked quite well.
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

Another awesome shot of the chess pieces, again in macro (I seriously can't get enough)
|Photo taken in Bletchley, on campus|

Okay, so I hope this wasn't too boring for you guys, but I love showing you my photos and getting your feedback.

So until tomorrow (hopefully :))

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Love

Hazel

xx

Feeling the Change

Today I feel I'm in a very flowery (If thats a word) mood, So I would like to share some of my photography work with all of you lovely people (If thats okay)

This photograph was taken (along with alot of them) in North Wales. I love this photo and the colours are very bright and vibrant :D

I Love the way the sun hits these yellow flowers in this photo.
|Photo taken in North Wales|

Beautiful Little Daffodil
|Photo taken in North Wales|

Gorgeous Pink FoxGloves
|Photo taken in Milton Keynes|

Sweet, Romantic Roses
|Above Photo taken in North Wales|
|Below Photo taken in Milton Keynes|

I apologies this is such a boring blog (for some) but I'm feeling the change from Summer to Autumn. Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE Autumn all the pumpkin and spiced flavored things, All the colours and spells... Yes I LOVE Autumn. But I Loved summer, and today as been the first time I'm feeling the change properly. Hence the blog about flowers and Summer and stuff.

Since I now have summer out of my system, I can move on to Autumn!!!!!! So prepare for some Autumn style blogs, Which I am really excited about, YAY!

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live

Love

Hazel

xx

P.S. Please go check out my new Blog I've started with a few of my friends... I will be posting on there every Friday, so please go check it out! :D 

Relax!

I love this photo, its so peaceful and calming. I've had such a busy week, and today was the first day in ages I've actually been able to just sit (which was physically relieving) but when I found this photo I took of Bala Lake, I was able to mentally relax for a bit and loose myself in the photo. I felt so relaxed.

I know this post might seem boring to some of you, but I feel like there is a lesson here. So when any one of you feel stressed or worked-up, and like everything is just not working out, don't worry. I know it is very easy to say not to worry, especially if there is something really really important going on, and sometimes you can't afford to loose concentration completely, but once in a while you need to just stop, sit and relax even if its just for a few minutes. Find a place, a quite spot something, or imagine being somewhere peaceful, like a forest or beach or a tranquil mountain side or anywhere!!! Just Relax! 

So next time you have a really important meeting, or things aren't going well at school/college/uni/work just remember to take a step back from it all once in a while, and what every it is will pass.

Sorry this post is quite short, but I hope you guys understood me.

Live the Life you Love, Love the Life you Live.

Love

Hazel

xx