Mermaids, real or not?

Basically a while back maybe 6 or 7 months ago i watched a documentary on mermaids with my sister on the animal planet on sky. Now when i watched it most of the photographic and audio evidence i believed completely because they had facts and they clarified everything that they said. But along with the photographic and audio evidence there was video evidence and i must admit as it was american i did think it looked a bit staged and the camera was way to steady to be real you know but hey that is me making judgment but then i saw footage that was from England where i am from.. it got me thinking. (this was from the new documentary they have released this year in 2013). Now this is a video of two coast guards on a dry run to find men that have been thrown overboard from ships. it's night time in the video and its filmed in night vision. You see on the right of the scream a little way in after the video starts a mermaid like/sea monster shape almost doing a dolphin like swimming motion appears and then goes under the boat the coast guards see it and then look to the opposite side of the boat and the video cuts out a little after that. This to me looked real enough, but then i saw the interview with the head of coast guards (i think that's what he was) in England, he said that we (the viewer) were seeing what we wanted to see and that there simply wasn't anything there, that it was just a seal, but it looks nothing like a seal. 

I'll link the video before i ramble on..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZqPKZIlKA

(the video is from the documentary and it just repeats certain bits etc)

But yes, it really makes me wonder does our governments hide things like this? for whatever reason?

 The case from the first documentary that i talked a little bit about at the start is an example of things being hidden. The south African government seized and took all of the evidence from that documentary and threatened all of the marine biologists and scientists involved trying to gain there silence and i just don't see why.. 

Now this just makes me sound like one of those freaks that like is obsessed with conspiracies and honestly i'm not i just intrigued by things like this like new life the chance of a new species. 

We as humans evolved from apes who stood and there is proof that apes used to fish in shallow water and stood to do so so if we evolve from that why couldn't the contact with water from generations make the apes evolve not only into humans but mermaids..?

I don't know, think what you like with what i said but it all just intrigues me, i'm the kind of person who believes that the universe it so vast for us to be the only life. So why can't the ocean be vast enough for these mythical creatures to be real?

What do you think?

Sianeth  xo

Getting back into photography.. 

So after taking a brake for a while from photography since my exams and leaving college and getting ready for uni etc i decided that today i would both help my friend who is now going into A2 photography (which i have already done) and getting back into doing spontaneous photo shoots ready for when i start my photography course at uni.

So myself Becca (the A level student) and Ed who was modelling for us went out and just sat up the street from Becca's house against a fence and took a few shots.

I am really into black and white portrait work and would normally have more of a neutral background like in a studio not the outdoors but i still wanted to stick to the style i love doing so i kind of just went with it. Now despite having taken quite a lot of photo's i have only up until now edited 8 of them and i am going to share them with you now just to see if anyone would actually like them and take interest. 

Sianeth xo

So my internet broke.. 

This last week my parents went away and i thought perfect, i'll write on my blog, sort my uni out, etc but no because those things mean that i would need the internet and guess what.... my internet decided to brake. The one thing i did not want to brake whilst my parents were away was the internet. Now if i'm honest i did not really mind the fact my internet wasn't working and honestly i did not really miss it but still important things needed to be done and they just weren't. 

Long story short i couldn't call and get them to fix it myself because it is in my mam's name so i had to wait until they returned, now they returned Sunday and rang up almost immediately and finally today someone arrived to fix it. 

But he had to spend almost 2 hours up a telegraph pole because some wanker disconnected our phone line and stole it for themselves, cheeky bastards so yeah i'm back.. 

With only 5 days to go until i move out i could not be more excited..

Sianeth xo

Results day!

So today is results day in England for AS and A2 A level results. I was getting my A2 results and i was also with this waiting to find out if i got accepted or not to the university i was hoping to go to, to study photography. 

Well i can officially say i am one happy girl today, I passed my exams better than was first expected of me, i was predicted U's and E's right across the board by my teachers because well lets just say I've had a shity, emotional year and it lead me to not focus in school and basically not turn up so my grades dropped.

But with having been to nervous thinking i'm going to fail and not get into uni for months and months and months i finally found out that i got a C in photography and to D's in my applied art, pretty good for a girl getting E's and U's if i do say so myself and yeah i got an email from UCAS confirming and congratulating me on the fact i got into uni!

I move out in 2 weeks and i could not be happier!

hope you all passed and got into your uni's too!

Sianeth xo

A Level Results day 

So tomorrow it is my results day for my A levels. Man, this is huge for me, this is going to be the decider for whether or not i go to uni or i don't. 

I am super nervous, because my life is now set out for university not resitting the year or a full time job. I just hope i get the right grades to get into uni. i can tell you that i will be panicking all day until UCAS tell me the verdict oh my.

Good luck to anyone else in my position i hope you get the grades you need! 

Sianeth xo

To iMac or not to iMac..

I've been thinking about this for a while, I do have a brand new Samsung Windows 8 laptop that my parents were kind enough to buy be for my 18th birthday but i do want an iMac to have at my flat at uni.

I mean i'm doing photography for a start, this would just make it 10x easier for me to get projects finished because i would have my own editing space set up in my room at my flat so i wouldn't have to catch the train to Hartlepool every day (I am attending uni at Hartlepool but i am actually going to live in Middlebrough, basically my uni recommend it and said there was a better night life and it is only like 5 minutes away from Hartlepool and the train station is right next to the uni! just easier i suppose? ahah)

But all in all i do really like apple software as you can see from my last post i am a owner of a iPhone my sister and mother also both have iPads and i just really like them and i have grown to be more used to them because at my old college in the 'fishbowl' as we would refer to it all us art lot, in reality it was just a room with glass walls full of computers and 4 iMac's, but basically i got used to using the iMacs software for editing and i do prefer using Photoshop on there opposed to on my windows laptop. 

But the downside is that they are SO expensive and i'm not sure i want to spend that much money on an iMac. This is something i am definitely going to have to think about.

I really don't know if anyone really reads my blog when they look at it but any thoughts from you guys? have you ever had one or had experience? help me decide please..

Sianeth xo 

The saddest iPhone user ever, I've joined the club now :(

So Last night i went out to the pubs and then the club with my friends and i had my iPhone as per usual and i went to go hug my friend and this was before we even got into the club and i wasn't at all that drunk so i can't even blame it on that but ANYWAY, I went to hug my friend and she managed to knock it clean out of my hand and it landed on the floor and i was doing the thing all iPhone owners do immediately after having dropped there iPhone and that was to veeeerrry slowly pick it up hoping you wont experience the heart stopping smashed phone moment. 

Well last night was apparently my day to feel that heart stopping moment as my phone was totally smashed! well i say totally smashed the bottom of my screen was, THEN after having picked it up and thought 'shit i smashed my phone' i went on to drop it, yet again, only to make the smashed part of my screen much much much worse. Go me right? idiot of the year right? but my friend was kind enough to at least give me some money for the damage, she gave me £20 which is nice because it will cost me around £30 to get it fixed in town. 

Hopefully by Wednesday i will have it all sorted and fixed! 

So yeah, i have a broken iPhone right now :( what a brilliant night i had worrying about that and telling my parents -.-

I feel for you if your in the same boat i really do ahah.

To sum it up basically just dont take your iPhone on a night out get a cheap, shitty £10, that would just have been so much easier! 

ahaa, 

Sianeth xo 

I realised that my first post wasn't even about me and who i am! aha.

Well my name is Siân Louise Kirby. I was born on the 1st o June 1995 and I am currently 18 years old. I have one older sister called Megan and she is 20 studying business at the university of Derby. I am a proud Yorkshire girl and i live in a small town called Northallerton in the north east. 

My hair in naturally really dark, i was born with almost black hair and as you can see it is now half brown and half ginger^ it is also SUPER long and is half way down my back. My eyes are hazel, a mix between brown and green but my eyes do change color between the two from time to time, i also have varied pupils where my pupils don't dilate at the same time making them different sizes. 

I have a blood clotting disorder called factor v leidens, most of my dads side has this disorder and i think only 2 out of the last few generations didn't have it. I love all things creative especially photography that's my passion and i am also hoping to study this as a degree at CCAD in Hartlepool. I can't think of much more to say about me! 

Cross Roads..

Currently I am at such a cross roads in my life, I'm sat here wondering will I be successful in photography? will I actually get the right grades next week to go to university? what will happen if I don't? will I join the police force, like I've always wanted.. My life plan could change at the drop of a hat this Thursday coming, once I open that envelope containing my final A level results I could jump for joy or crumble with sadness. 

Now i'm not trying to over dramatize this situation I mean being an 18 year old student, hoping to go to university is nerve racking as it is, adding on top of that in 3 weeks and 1 day providing I get the results I need to get into university I will be moving into my new flat with two of my beset friends, which sounds perfect but I am so nervous about moving away from my parents (even though they are only half and hour away on the train). But all of this is just making me crazy because I am so looking forward to the uni life and living with my friends but at the same time as getting excited I can't get my hopes up too much out of fear of utter disappointment. 

I'm sure a huge amount of other people my age are in the same boat and its such a tense time for all of us. Realizing this is a quite a serious and morbid first blog post but having said that good luck to any other student in my boat! I hope you get the grades you need and I hope you all go far not only in university but also your careers following that! 

Sianeth

xo