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It all seemed a good idea at the time. I was wrapping a birthday present for a friend who we're dining out with later and decided to place a glass over the left over wrapping paper to do an oil in water pic. The result I felt was nauseating and migrainous to look at so I converted it to Black and White. The colour version can be seen in comments-see what you think
Sunshine after a very heavy shower, I missed the rainbow in the other direction, but the raindrops in this tree were sparkling in the afternoon light.
A visit to Winkworth Arboretum with Liz. I was playing with zoomburst and video, but this is easily the best from the day with a slight crop only.
A play on words with the Radio Station,'Mellow Magic for the caption. These are the only flowers in our wildflower patch to withstand today's high winds
I didn't relish the prospect of our monthly visit to Mumbles in the wake of Storm Gareth this morning, but when we parked in the Car Park at Oysterwharf, I was pleasantly surprised at how calm the sea looked and how warm it was. However after we'd seen to business, it was a different story as the tide was going out and the wind whipped up again . Brrr!
After driving to Ammanford and back in hideous weather conditions earlier today, it was such a joy to see this dwarf narcissus in flower in one of my garden planters when I got home.
A bit of a mixed bag weatherwise today. This was taken at The Prince of Wales Dock, Swansea SA1 after picking up the car from the garage after some running repairs. Prior to this I'd been at Swansea Vale Ponds checking out the birdlife in the sleety rain
A failed attempt at a jewellery shot for this week's Macro Monday theme. I also took a few OOF ones of the background for bokeh, and am using one of these as my 365 and for the FCB's 52 Week Challenge topic of Bokehlicious.
An hour spent planting up some flowers in my garden this morning. This is one I took before I started though.
A visit to the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock Abbey today. With the complete quote being this: It is a little bit of magic realized:—of natural magic. You make the powers of nature work for you, and no wonder your work is well and quickly done. (1839).
A play with my steampunk style pocket watch. Had to keep resetting the time to get 6pm! Fairy lights for bokeh background.
Treasure Hunt 71: Watch
FCB's 52 Week Challenge Week 51: 6pm
A visit to Wiggonholt Common to make a Deconstructed Landscape for the FCB's 52 Week Challenge.
This is a straight reflection, although I may have thrown a pebble in...
Too rainy to go out the garden to inspect for damage after last night's storm. Too rainy to fill the squirrel feeder on my back fence. Not too rainy though to step outside to put a few peanuts on a garden wall. Result : one grey squirrel eagerly tucking in, Taken through the glass of my patio window..
A triple photography day...
Firstly a wander around the garden looking for butterflies, then a trip in the beach buggy to Bosham for the Michael Kenna Retrospective (well worth seeing) and tea. Finally, a trip up to Chantry Post to watch the partial lunar eclipse.
One of my early shots with the barley under the newly risen moon.
I wish I'd thought of somewhere a bit more dramatic, saw one on facebook with the moon over St Michael's Mount. Must do better, but couldn't think of anywhere interesting with the right orientation within easy drive of home...
My intended PoTD was to be a Cockscomb flower in my garden lunchtime until I spotted this Lily Beetle climbing up one of its leaves, The caption could refer to a number of things ..... one being the fact that it was hoping to climb up to the top, or the fact that as I was sat there on the path trying to get this shot, I had a certain man standing above me with his insecticide gun.....
I've seen a feeding frenzy today with two blue tits back and fore the nest box we have on the back of our home, carrying grubs to the chicks
A break in the rain saw me dashing around the corner to the wild flower bed planted by Swansea City Council. , I think that these could possibly Lungwort aka Pulmonaria
A patch of garden that kept growing weeds wil now grow numerous poppies, as well as grasses and forget-me-nots.
This is the first poppy to flower, from a packet given to me by my sister as a thankyou for driving when we went to Amiens last October with other family members.
A trip up to London on our 37th anniversary. Spent most of the day at the Imperial War Museum, but there was time to go and check the lights out.
Oxford Street was very disappointing, and Regent Street had the same angels as last year.
Light Trails for the FCB's 52 Week Challenge week 48.
I'm not sure yet whether or not to add this as my POTD because it is a documentary shot Taken this morning approx 9.15 am once the clouds had lifted over the Swansea Valley.
Taken at WWT Llanelli where it was so hot and sunny , with everywhere and everything looked parched ( including myself) that I almost titled this, The Dry Side of the Wetlands.
... When it's a bonfire!
Alex's shed from his old house finally getting burnt on the bonfire, as the sun sets behind the smoke!
I had arty frost photos from this morning, but this described my whole afternoon.
I wish ;-) Legs felt as if they had two bags of concrete tied to them today so a very short stroll at Mumbles. Also the first time ever I've had difficulty getting a 365 shot in, so tomorrow I get a routine hospital check up in which I'll be asking if there are any more spaces left on the phase 3 MS STAT2 trials.....
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Due to the drop on temperatures in May, many of our flowers are late coming into full bloom -captured in my garden today.
Storrington CC visited Graham Murrell's Rhythms and Riffs photographic exhibition at West Dean Gardens. Martin decided to try and stick to square format B&W for the day, so I gave it a try.
Here's a 3x3 I produced with some of my images from the gardens.
Went for a very muddy and soggy walk this morning in RSPB Cwm Clydach and met this little beauty being walked by a dog sitter.
A few hours at Llanelli WWT with the express intent of seeing the flock or colony of six currently living at the reserve. I've chosen this out of dozens for my POTD and with apologies to regular contacts for a few more in my photostream 😳. I'll be on a more sedentary photoshoot tomorrow and I'd only forget about them if I didn't upload.
A trip to Newhaven for rough seas. Not quite as rough as we hoped. Here's fellow 365er, and my partner in photographic endeavours Liz Barber in typical pose on the beach.
Beautiful early light on the mountains by the fjords. A quiet day, so a bit of a play with a flipped double exposure.
Inspired by John Penberthy's ARPS panel, I did try this in camera, but realised later that I hadn't joined it up well enough. Revisited in Photoshop, and happier with the results.
Treasure Hunt 29: Flipped
After a hot humid day at home with head deep in PC, and having picked up the car afer a service, we headed for the coast to cool down.
This is carrying on from my previous POTD before Flickr's downtime.Yesterday morning I noticed a Blue Tit feeding a fledgling on one top of one of our feeders. It was too dark at that time of morning to get a shot so the only one I managed was this one with the fledgling peeping over the top of the arch. I suspect therefore that all other fledglings made it to safety.
Following that I accompanied a group of people from MS Society Swansea and District Group to the National Botanic Gardens of Wales where I took some shots of flowers and butterflies but those will have to wait.
And after taking nigh on 600 photos at MS Society Cymru's Launch of the #StopMS appeal, the last thing I felt like doing was taking photos today so this is a grab shot of the foyer of the Angel Hotel , Cardiff as we left to come home this morning.
The moon captured at approx 6am for my PoTD . I had to be on my PC very early to submit something I've written before things get busy 'big time' this week what with a routine medical check, and prep for a Charity Dinner this coming weekend. A hand held shot through my open back bedroom window.
Making blueberry muffins for family visiting later in the day, as I added oil to the milk it created these bubbles. Had to grab camera, then added red headtorch light (thanks Dave!).
The tiny red bubble on the right that looks different was in the surface of the oil, the rest were between the two layers.
A day at National Trust Dyffryn Gardens mostly spent photoing dragonflies in the ponds there. Not absolutely 100% certain if this mating couple are Blue Bodied Chasers or Blacktailed Skimmers because I'd always believed the female to be mostly brown in both
This is another from a wildflower seed mix. I haven't a clue what it could be . The flower heads look like one of the nightshades but I'm confused because of its stem
Another wet day, so a play with a dead rose, revived by photography.
I compared my Canon f1.8 50mm to the Lensbaby Sweet 50, and the Velvet 56.
The Sweet 50 won my vote, perfect for my final monthly project Lensbaby image. Two home grown textures added, a recent peeling paint one and one from Greenwich in 2015.
Treasure Hunt Monthly Project 12: December Lensbaby image
After spending most of this year living out of a suitcase, what with holidays, and 'business' etc. there's nothing better than sitting down at your own desk, with full Wi Fi and a good cuppa - Tetley's tea in this instance although I usually drink peppermint tea but we've run out of it.
Read what you will into the caption but let's just say that having been to the hairdresser , it was such a pleasant morning that I took a stroll along the canal bank nearby and realised I hadn't taken my camera to capture the mist rising . Next stop was Dobbies ( formerly Wyevale) Garden Centre to pick up a new Christmas Tree for our front porch where I noticed that they're already stripping down their Christmas Displays ready for ? offering a 30% discount off certain goods. I stood there thinking , have I turned crazy myself by bowing to the over consumerism of Christmas? Or a matter of double standards because where I live the number of emergency food parcels provided to people in crisis by food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network has increased by 73% over the past 5 years.
I bought one piece of Welsh Slate in a Craft Fair the other day and have been waiting for the opportunity to use it. Granted that it's got a blueberry on it but it refers to my day. The last thing I wanted to be doing after a very late night home from Cardiff yesterday due to the M4 being closed, incurring detour upon detour was to have to get up before dawn because we were getting scaffolding delivered in order for work to proceed on cleaning the slates on our roof . In fact the last thing of all that I wanted to be hearing was loud hip hop music blaring from their radio but I don't somehow think that they'd wanted to listen to the soothing sounds of Barber's Adagio for strings either ;-)
This is Rhod ( short for Rhodri) always the optimist, especially given that the bird bath is frozen , even more so that it's a bird bath in the first place.
"Sul y Blodau (Flowering Sunday) is the Welsh term for Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter Day) when flowers were put on graves in Wales.
On the Saturday before Palm Sunday or Easter Sunday, gravestones at some churches in Wales were cleaned or whitewashed, the graves were tidied, and flowers were planted or strewn on them."
Many of my friends still subscribe to this custom or tradition. However I had it drummed into me from an early age by my mother, not to give her flowers after she was gone but whilst she was still alive - which is why I don't,but also the reason I like to have cut flowers in my home.