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After being out in pouring rain earlier minus camera, I put this in my Lightbox when I got home. I've been getting tired of people on their own soap boxes voicing their opinions of last night's TV coverage of Theresa May PM's Brexit deal defeat so here is my gentle Soap Box with profits from the company going to support the work with street children and the Dalit people in India.
PS. Wish I hadn't thrown away the tiny dried rose petals I used to keep in my prop drawer to add to the photo.
The love for life is fresh in the air. The prayer, "to be my highest and my best" has been said and soon the chaos of the new year will be upon us, but you must believe that the new year will be full of opportunities, infinite possibilities, worry free, joyful times and peace; And don't forget to love, laugh and give.
So, I got a new lens from lensbaby.com/lenses-composer.php for Christmas and this is the first shot with it. I don't know how I feel about it but I think I will learn to love it.
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Dave's birthday was showery, so no walk or mtb ride. Instead a trip to Arundel for a wander around and tea and scones.
This heron was playing statues, then flew off as I put the camera down!
Horsham, Crawley, Reigate and East Grinstead are hosting the HeART to Heart trail, for St Catherine's Hospice.
I found three hearts in a brief visit to Horsham, must try next time!
This one is Ellie Our Angel
Went up to Guildford to see my aunt again, realising on the way that I'd forgotten a camera...
Good opportunity for the FCB's 52 Week Challenge theme of "Use your mobile".
Apart from the really white bit of sky, its not done badly for an old Samsung.
A walk along the Loughor Estuary foreshore this afternoon to blow the cobwebs away (?) Just as I was about to sit on a bench I noticed this. I'm not a lover of spiders but I wouldn't wish it harm, so I let it be and moved on to another bench to sit.
I was having a 500 calorie/day kind of day, then confirmed an evening out with friends for a pub meal. I think I got a little overexcited about the idea of having pudding instead of thin air! Found a way to see the stress patterns in plastic without having to buy two very expensive sheets of polarising film.
Thank goodness for t'internet!
A Still Life
A help moment in a brief bit of light on a miserable day...
These have self-seeded in our steps, and my attempt to move them last year failed.
This is an art installation by Luke Jerram called ‘Gaia’ at The Wales Millennium Centre.
Measuring a staggering seven metres (23 feet) in diameter, Gaia features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the Earth’s surface where visitors are able to see our planet, floating in 3D inside the Glanfa foyer.
The artwork is 1.8 million times smaller than our actual planet, with each centimetre of the internally lit sculpture describing 18km of the Earth’s surface.
In Greek mythology, Gaia is the personification of the Earth, the Earth Goddess and ancestral mother of all life.
However I chose the caption because it reminded me of the children’s song of that name – translated into Welsh as ‘Glas, Glas, Blaned,’
The Northern Lights kept getting better each time. This is looking back over the stern of the ship, and including some of the remaining Aurora watchers after a 2 hour session. This was to be our final glimpse of the aurora, in the sixth session over the six days, so I can't complain!
Treasure Hunt 30: Flowing.
It is wise not to drop one of your spare camera batteries on the floor next to a pile of towels which are waiting to be picked up by your very helpful and significant Better Half to put into in the washing machine. So after a 40C wash and a full spin cycle of 1400 , it emerged gleaming but totally unusable 😂🙈
Thank goodness for Amazon Prime who delivered a new one first thing this morning.
This tiny little engraved tag was on Addy's saddle when I bought it years ago. I don't know who Vixen was, but the tag made me imagine a much-loved family pony. I couldn't bear to remove the tag. Now I am torn between keeping it or letting it go with the saddle, as I clean the tack ready for going to a car boot tack sale.
... "with my knapsack on my back" 😉
Captured this morning a few yards from our holiday cottage before setting off to meet with relatives.
Tomorrow we ourselves move on to a different location therefore tomorrow's PotD may well be a phone shot..
I was sidling up to my neighbours lake to try and catch the heron (right here) and ducks dabbling in the unfrozen part. They got wind of me and all flew off. I realised on looking at the image on the computer that there was a fox watching them intently! They all had a lucky escape.
Today a few of us battled through Storm Hannah to travel to Caerphilly to attend and sing at the launch of The South Wales aMaSing Choir.
This choir is for those Living with MS ( Multiple Sclerosis) and those affected by it ( friends, family etc) . Two staff members of MS Society Cymru/ Wales have worked hard to secure grant funding for this, but only for the South East Wales area . Coming from a musical background myself, this was something I've waited for for a long time. The picture itself is of the accompanist and conductor before it all kicked off.
A late afternoon play with an old Dinky Toy found in Mum's effects a few years ago...
Just realised this is perfect for the Treasure Hunt 50: On My Street
Today's plan to visit St Fagans for its Winter Fair didn't happen because I thought it wise given that I'm carrying a cold and it's been a bitterly cold day - also the fact that I didn't want to risk cancelling a visit to see Les Mis at the Wales Millennium Centre on Monday . I did though go for an incredibly bracing stroll at Mumbles to blow the germs away - minus my camera for once .
Some may recall that I took similar after a visit to the Royal Mint Experience in Spring 2017 where we were given the chance of 'striking' a £1 coin. In November 2018, we revisited with our friends from Hampshire , but this time it was my turn to part with my money and you'll notice that it's gone up to £2 .
From its website: - Frankenstein 2018 UK £2 Brilliant Uncirculated Coin
A unique keepsake to mark the legacy of Frankenstein
The coin features an innovative design by Royal Mint coin designer Thomas T. Docherty, portraying ECG monitor style wording of ‘Frankenstein’
The only official UK coin to celebrate 200 years of the publication of the novel
Mark 200 years of the legacy of Frankenstein and the birth of science fiction
The coin features the edge lettering ‘A SPARK OF BEING’, which is a quote taken from the novel "
I notice that if you want to buy one from the website or its shop, that the cost of it that way is £10.
More here www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/frankenstein/Frankenst...
I often buy peanuts in their shells to feed the squirrels at Swansea Botanical Gardens because they appear to enjoy them more than shelled ones. These are a few from a large bag of them which I keep at home ready to take with me on my next visit.
After yesterdays work, I needed to write on the back of each photo. After doing so, I realised the evidence for the DVLA would make a good mosaic.
We have to show that the van has built-in features, such as a cooker, bed etc.
An mtb ride at Swinley Forest again. I did get a few of Dave later on, but this was taken as my 365, reprising an old idea by lying in a small clump of pines.
I hasten to add, I lay down deliberately, not because anything had happened!
It was a beautiful, if blustery day.
Today's photoshoot at the Wales Airshow at Swansea Bay didn't go to plan. Ater a rapid shoot/burst of the first plane, an RAF Typhoon Fighter, I looked at my review pane and noticed a black mark like the one you see here. I set my mirror lock to open to see if there was anything on my sensor but to my horror, it appears that my shutter curtains were stuck. I did try to nudge them a bit. took another shot - this one.
I doubt if it's worth repairing because it may have outlived its days what with all the bird photography I do, also Event Photography. RIP my camera :(
It all seemed a good idea at the time . A few hours free this morning so thought I'd try this out again, but in the end I've spent too much time over it when I should be getting ready to hit the road for Hampshire again tomorrow. To me it looks blurred but it maybe just the fact that my eyes have spent too much time poring over my monitor.
A visit to Denbies vineyard for the Arena group exhibition, as mentioned by Shirley recently.
Onwards to Polesden Lacey, where the roses are probably just past their best. However, I loved the effect the fallen petals made on the ground when viewed with the Lensbaby.
Treasure Hunt 07 Monthly Project: July Lensbaby image.
The rain returned, so I got Bobbie and his/her new friend out for a play.
Concept seen at Sussex PF Print Championships in March, and I realised that Bobbie's incident at the last photoshoot made it possible to emulate the image by Graham Deacon of Seven Sisters CC. Thanks for the inspiration!
Lightsabers created in PS using their Neon effect which keeps popping up when I open PS.
Tunnel from 28.2.18 when I did a Hidden London tour of disused tube tunnels at Euston, which was a competition entry at SCC on Thursday night which, although being a good image, did not hold the judge's attention...
Perhaps it would now!!
A ride from home for a change, along the South Downs Way from Washington to Amberley.
Dave is all smiles after safely descending Amberley Mount, which, at 23% is nearly 1 in 4!
Tea and cake was enjoyed at Amberley Tea Rooms...
Taken from Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility
[March-June 2015]
The Guggenheim (officially the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum). Founded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1937 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, it was renamed after it's founder's death in 1952.
The current building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) and built in 1959.
Today me and mine took the chance of a day out together at Aerospace Bristol having seen The Antiques Roadshow on TV the other night and which had been filmed there. It coincided with the 50th Anniversary of the Day that Concorde made its maiden flight. We arrived early so were caught up in a Cavalcade of vehicles travelling from there to the The Fleet Air Museum Yeovilton. Back to the grind tomorrow hence the mass upload of photos , but I felt this phoneshot best for my PotD - DLSR version in comments because I couldn't get it all in frame.
A trip to London Open Houses with Bognor Regis CC. Had a play with the Lensbaby. Feel it works fairly well on architecture.
(Replacement) Treasure Hunt 09 Monthly Project: September
FCB 52 Week Challenge Week 38: Architecture
This VW based trike caught our eyes at the Broadwater Carnival in Worthing. When I saw the name I had to get the shot for the Treasure Hunt!
Colin and Melody work with the Street Pastor team in Worthing. Street Pastors are available 9-9pm 7 days a week, and 10pm-4am Fridays and Saturdays out in the town.
Treasure Hunt 53: Pegasus
This morning I got up to discover a problem with our broadband being intolerably slow. After an hour on the phone to our ISP ( during which the young lady suggested that Huw plug an ethernet cable into his Mac Book pro (??) , it was determined that our router is faulty and we're to get a visit from a technician between 8am and midday tomorrow. I hope he arrives early because we leave home tomorrow at lunchtime for a local fundraising meeting and from there travel to Cardiff ( weather permitting ) for another meeting with an overnight stay there. Caption is because it's surprising how much dust gathers in and around these teccie gadgets, no matter how often you dust them.
I have been looking at the Ice Cream Treasure Hunt topic for a while, and thinking I wanted to do something different.
Then I saw a post on Facebook from the Worthing Herald, saying that an Ice Cream van would be visiting 11 places in the UK and Ireland with the street name of Hawkins.
Stranger Things is a Netflix sensation, and the 3rd season has broken streaming records. It is set in Hawkins, Indiana. It is apparently sci-fi horror, and I must get to see season 1 somehow!!
They were giving out ice cream to the first 40 people there, and Jenna and Emily kindly agreed to let me photograph them with their ice creams, and gave permission for me to use this as my POTD. They each have the images I took, although I'm sure they're mobile phone ones will be plenty for them!
The guy posing with them was part of the whole set-up, and kept things well under control.
Another new gadget to my collection of photo paraphernalia. It's a card reader to transfer photos directly to my iPad from my camera - something I need because I go away so often, especially on overnighters that very often my laptop is bigger and heavier than my overnight bag. I've downloaded the Lightroom app onto my iPad to edit in RAW and share to whoever - not necessarily to Flickr, although the one below in comments is another shot of the Labradoodle posted for yesterday's POTD. PS I think I've created the Watermark too large....🙈
Allowed a bit more time on my way to swimming on a frosty morning. I was trying to get a good view of the Toat monument, but the view seems to have disappeared. Instead, I pointed the camera along the lane. Lens *might* need a clean, but I rather enjoyed the bokeh created by the back lit dust flaring into the sun.
Treasure Hunt 14: Back Lit
Three images, two deliberately blurred and one sharp, merged in Photoshop with a combination of Exclusion and Screen blending modes.
Another wet day...
Aiming for Flowers in a Novel Way for the Challenge 2019 monthly challenge...
A dull day, after the glorious sunshine yesterday.
A quick look in the garden for something to photograph...
Inspired by the work of Marston Hart from Battle Photographic Society at the Sussex Photographic Federation Print Championships, I decided to have a go at emulating this concept.
A lazy day after my late night out. Pebbles has taken to our window seats, and swaps sides depending on where the sun is. She seemed to be cuddling in to Teddy, who was responding.
Thoroughly enjoyable trip on the Swanage Railway with Alex, Jade and the grandchildren. Corfe Castle was looking gorgeous in some sunshine. We'd just had a heavy shower!
I woke up this morning with no voice and the mother of sore throats, so had to pull out of a meeting in Bridgend followed by a visit to see the Diplodocus at The National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. This old dinosaur instead raided the batch of home made Welsh Cakes that I cooked on the weekend and put in the freezer destined for Huw's final MS Society Board Meeting in London, next Thursday. I'd better add that I left more than enough in the freezer.
A late afternoon wander around next doors garden (they're away, and have said to help myself any time).
This piece of old car just goes to show that one person's junk is another's treasure.
Treasure Hunt 41: Junk
Today I met up with my oldest school pal (oldest meaning that we've been friends ever since we were placed next to each other at the age of twelve in secondary school ) It was a belated birthday lunch so I got to choose the venue. The lampshades caught my eye but I was quite impressed by the transformation in the place I once frequented namely Cafe TwoCann at Swansea SA1 , now an Italian Restaurant called Positano.
Waterlilies in the lake on the nearby golf course.
What a day of sport! I needed to get out after the F1 at Silverstone, Wimbledon final and cricket World Cup final. Also had to catch up on the Tour de France for Saturday and Sunday (Bastille Day). Well done to Lewis, Novak and England, and Geraint is still in the mix after a day when the Tour may not have been won, but could easily have been lost after a crash at a pivotal moment.
Spent quite a bit of the day making marmalade, with my tripod set up as on previous years. Thanks to the radio, I remembered it was the Great Garden Birdwatch, so I watched these guys... The feeder was full at the start of the day!
Sadly, the marsh/willow tit I was hoping to photograph didn't show up, but plenty of blue tits did, and five of my favourite long-tailed tits, as well as a songthrush and Great spotted woodpecker(s).