There are times when you just know you are a blogger. Times when my husband rolls his eyes, more times in a day than I care to remember and times when there are just too many photo opportunities.

That time is now!

Happy December, happy festive season. Bring it on.

So how do you know you are a blogger at Christmas? Have a read...

1. You've taken a selfie (In fact you actually took 10 and chose the best to filter on your favourite app) in a novelty Christmas jumper/Christmas print pjs. 
2. You want to wrap your gifts in an extravagant-but-I-haven't-really-tried kind of way. Think brown paper, ink stamps, a few sprigs of holly or a random piece of fir tree.
3. You've suddenly got masses of Christmas craft ideas to blog. Think of the Pinterest traffic. 
4. You suddenly have masses of brussels sprout recipe ideas. Food blogging here you come!
5. You want to decorate your house with tissue paper pom poms.
6. You've made your children sit in front of a DIY photo backdrop of Christmas lights for much longer than they wanted to, but just think of that perfect bokeh shot!
7. You "sign off" for a Christmas break, to spend lots of quality time with your family but secretly take your phone to the toilet to catch up on what you've missed!
8. You send your partner and loved ones your Pinterest wish list board for present suggestions.
9. There are festive "vignettes" all over your house and your partner now knows what the word vignette means. 
10. The first thing you do on Christmas morning is reach for your phone and tweet/Instagram/Facebook a Happy Christmas Day message. You may not have time once the festivities start!
11. You've rewrapped "review" toys for your children's Christmas presents. They probably won't remember, after all, they barely played with it, you just bribed them for a photo with said toy for the review post!
12. You eat a cold Christmas dinner because you took your Christmas dinner into the garden to get a perfect naturally light shot of your magnificent feast. You can't not share a photo, even though we are all eating exactly the same thing. 
13. You make everyone wait to eat so you can take an overhead shot of the Christmas table.
14. You can't wait to see what your favourite blogger was given for Christmas.
15. The most thoughtful gift could be a photo book of your Instagram gallery.
16. You are praying for snow for that all important #fromwhereIstand, foot photo. I mean come one, in the snow - that's just magical!
17. You schedule a post for Christmas Day. A blogger never really has a day off ;)

It can't just be me surely?!!!

The brilliant thing about social media is you find and follow like minded people. 

I love the supportive and sharing communities I am part of and one of them #blogphotochat has led to a super giveaway for a lucky reader! 

If you are a blogger and looking to take your blog photography to a new level this is the course for you, and if you are not a blogger but would love to improve your photos then hooray - you are in the right place too!

I follow photographers on Instagram and Twitter whose photos inspire me and photographers who I can openly ask for advice and share our passion for taking better photos. Emma is one of them.

Emma Davies is a talented commercial and fine art flower photographer (I mean you can imagine just how much I adore her work!) based in Surrey and her photos are breathtaking.

Emma runs a successful program of workshops and courses all of which I would love to go on, and is offering a place on the next online Blog Photography Course which commences on Monday 22th September for one of my lovely readers.

You will win a 28 day course which has been designed to cover every aspect of blog photography with 5 video tutorials each week and access to all sorts of loveliness with Emma.

All you have to do is tell us why you would love to win the place. 

• Leave a comment on this blog post OR
• Leave a comment on this Instagram photo OR
• Leave a comment on this Facebook photo

The competition will close at midnight on Friday 19th September and the winner will be announced on Saturday 20th September.

Good luck! 

And don't forget to join in #blogphotochat every Thursday night at 9pm UK time on Twitter. 

A week of perfect pinks was right up my street! I couldn't wait for a week of pink and it seems all of you couldn't either! 

We had an amazing amount of happy snappers join in in last week with #capturingcolour on Instagram filling my feeds with beautiful soft baby pinks, bright cerise and everything in between.

This was my week of pink.

And these just leapt out at me! This week I loved...

L to R: @onetinyleap, @seasidelucy, @hattydaze, @fashionyfab, @sonyacisco, @saraho249, @emmiekhall, @locavintage and @lucy_inthe_papersky.

So with Summer holidays and children off school we have something different for August. A RAINBOW month of colour and an opportunity to get your littler ones involved.

Share your colourful photos with the hashtag #capturingcolour and let your children get behind the lens and show us what they capture with #kidscapturingcolour. Let's paint the internet bright with every hue of the rainbow.

#capturingcolour is a weekly Instagram hashtag hosted by My Two Mums, Maybush Studio, Sorry About The Mess, Real Housewife of Suffolk and Shutterflies head over to their blogs to see what they have captured this week. 

Show us your rainbow brights for the month of August!