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One for Macro Mondays: "Best with Holidays is..." ...playing games.
This childhood tradition came back to us about 6 or 7 years ago, when we had a lengthy power cut after Alex came home from university for the Christmas holidays.
We lit a fire, and the three of us played games all evening.
I wanted to show the gears at the start of the game, which set the train of events off in order to catch a mouse. The game was mine from 50+ years ago.
Blue Mouse can just be seen trapped in the cage in the background.
Each gear/cog is 2.5" across.
Treasure Hunt 20: Cogs
This jar kept coming into mind whenever I thought of this week's Macro Mondays topic of Lids.
The lid commemorates an annual VW aircooled vehicle event our beach buggy has been at every year since it started in 2016. This year the organiser Plum Jacobs teamed up with a local jam maker, who employs people with disabilities, to package their Victoria Plum Jam in special jars. Very tasty it was too!
Photographed in front of an image of our beach buggy on screen.
Lid is 3" across
The headphones of a GECoPhone 1920's crystal set radio seen in a wander around Standen House with the Lensbaby.
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
I'm used to being woken up by the sunrise but today I was woken up by this moon shining in through my bedroom window - a good half hour or more before sunrise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Due to the drop on temperatures in May, many of our flowers are late coming into full bloom -captured in my garden today.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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