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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.
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).
A piece of memorabilia that I bought in the Abbey Road shop in London last weekend. I thought it fitting for today in a perverse kind of way because the overnight flooding in and around my locale caused a lot of disruption on the road and rail networks.
My turn for a play with a glass vase and stripey paper, trying to get the refracted lines à la Gavin Hoey.
Not entirely successful, and I can't work out how he managed not to get lots of horrible reflections in his glass...
(A little cloning later)
For the FCB's 52 Week Challenge Week 17: Refraction
Woke to steady drizzle, which lasted most of the day. The agapanthus were drinking it up though, as were seeds scattered here, and weeds no doubt!
Parking in Pulborough, Dave and I walked to Amberley across the wildbrooks. Train back to Pulborough, with a short walk back to the car: 7.75 miles in total through secretive little ways we've not walked before.
It was a lovely day with none of the showers that might have been. This route would be impassable at times in winter due to flooding of the wildbrooks.
I'll get some more from the walk up tomorrow...
Treasure Hunt 55: Platform
Bought some sweet peas to decorate the tables for camera club Summer Party.
The little turquise vase gets it's true debut in the 365, after some light sprites were seen recently.
The windows were overly bright, but a bit of softening and I was happy with this, though it's a bit unusual for me!
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.
Dwarf Narcissi in a planter in my garden through my glass ball. Epic fail with this one because I caught the reflections of the top of the awning and bedroom windows .
This is honey from the bees at the National Botanic Garden of Wales that I bought last Thursday
“Home to approximately half a million honeybees, the Botanic Garden is abuzz with activity throughout most of the year. For the first time ever, honey from the Bee Garden is now for sale in the Garden’s Gift Shop.
“Research undertaken by the Garden’s Science Team has discovered that, although the Garden offers our honeybees a magnificent menu of more than 11,000 types of plants, they rely on hedgerow, woodland and grassland species such as brambles, white clover, dandelion, willow, hawthorn and ivy for most of their diet.”
A quick wander in Monkmead Woods. The healed wound in this tree was catching the sun rather well. I added a bit of a Lensbaby Omni Rainbow Film filter effect on the right.
More of my type of landscape photography...
Waves breaking on the rocks at Crackington Haven...
Loving the green water and patterns created by a longer exposure.
Mothering Sunday today in the UK and this is the ribbon on the gift from our son - a mahoosive bucket of flowers, to name just one thing. A little background about Mothering Sunday....
"Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or 'mother' church once a year i.e. the church in which they were baptised. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their 'mother' church - the main church or Cathedral of the area.
Inevitably the return to the 'mother' church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home. (It was quite common in those days for children to leave home for work once they were ten years old.)
And most historians think that it was the return to the 'Mother' church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family.
As they walked along the country lanes, children would pick wild flowers or violets to take to church or give to their mother as a small gift."
XIII.—The Old Red Sandstone Rocks of the West Kilbride-Largs District, Ayrshire
EM Patterson
Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow 21 (2), 207-236, 1951
From Ardrossan northwards to Wemyss Bay the eastern shores of the Firth of Clyde furnish an almost continuous succession of sandstones, pebbly sandstones and conglomerates referred on the published geological maps to the Upper Old Red Sandstone. These form a foundation for the Carboniferous lava-plateau of Renfrewshire and northern Ayrshire. They rise steeply from the coast towards the lava-country of the interior and separate it from the sea by a distance which varies from half a mile near Largs to upwards of four miles west of the villages of Inverkip and West Kilbride. The district described in the present paper comprises the coastal tract which stretches for a distance of seven miles from West Kilbride to Largs (Fig. 3). It lies mainly within Sheet 21 of the Geological Survey One-inch Map, though a small part on its eastern margin is included in Sheet 22.
These are for a Spring Charity Ball that four of us who are the SwanseaMSFundraisingGroup are arranging for March 1st. The idea is this ( as is printed on the envelope ) :-
1. Place £5 in the envelope.
2. Sign your name on the envelope.
3. Your envelope will be collected
4. The winning envelop drawn will win a case of wine
Guaranteed a good money spinner each time we've done this in the past.
A visit to The National Botanic Gardens of Wales where we arrived in warm Springtime weather but by the time we left it had turned cold and grey.
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.
Taken at The National botanic Gardens of Wales. I was dropped off here long before it opened, by Huw en route to a meeting in Carmarthen, although I spent most of the day at The British Birds of Prey Centre there. An uncustomarily cold and windy day for April but despite feeling perished to the core, managed somehow to get my face sunburned underneath my polyfilla ( make - up 😉)
Last year it was sunflowers, this year we've had a few rapeseed plants grow from the bird seeds.
No longer flowering, it was looking particularly good in the sun against the neighbour opposite's dark copper beech.
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.
Terrible overnight rain and flooding in my area that I wasn't sure I'd get out today but during a dry patch, I nipped around to the lane near my home. Neighbours always leave their pumpkins in the woods for wildlife to nibble at and I spotted this one that must have been washed into the stream. I was afraid to go much further because the lane itself had newly formed streams running through it.
Dave decorated the house with our prayer flags, bought in Kathmandu in 2016!
The calm before the storm. 26 people including ourselves, with no easy access from house to garden due to unfinished work and a lost backdoor key.
This is the only way round the house to the back garden. Luckily the weather was kind to us, glad it wasn't on Sunday!
I've been invited to rather a glitzy dinner next week as a guest in my own rights, but also as the photographer of the event. People who know me know that this kind of dresswear is so not me which led to a bit of a dilemma as to what to wear anyway. In the end I opted for this kimono jacket which I can whip off as soon as I need to with a plain sleeveless top and black velvet trousers - not even going there about the footwear ;-)
So on a dark and drab day in Winter, we headed to the darkest and drabbest of places known as Taibach , Port Talbot . The name Taibach itself lends itself to many a crude joke because its English translation is literally ‘Little Houses’ or to be polite, ‘the loos’ .
From the web :- “Up until a few weeks ago Richmond Terrace was just like any other suburban street in South Wales.
It is home to a few houses and garages, next to the busy A48 running through Port Talbot. The nondescript area, less than a mile from the vast Port Talbot steelworks, was unknown to most.
But just a few days before Christmas, the street was appearing in newspapers across the world from New York to Japan after an artwork by the world renowned Banksy appeared on a garage wall. The graffiti shows a child with open arms playing in what appears to be snow, but the other side of the wall reveals it is ash from a rubbish bin on fire.
In the frenzy that followed, thousands descended on the small street, the owner of the garage went without sleep for two days, a "drunk halfwit" tried to damage the graffiti and the local council had to hire workers to deal with the crowds”
Read more about it here……………….
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/truth-behind-port-t...
Closer shots in comments.