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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.
After a drive through heavy rain sleet and snow to Carmarthen and back this morning, I give you something as simple as a rose as my POTD.
Once it started to snow last evening I placed my little orb on a bistro table outside on my patio. As you can see, unlike many other parts of South Wales, it didn't amount to much. We were due to travel to Cardiff today for meetings but seeing as others who live in the S. Wales Valleys were snowbound , the meetings were called off.
Taken on the way home from Ammanford after spending the day photo'ing the Semi Finals of MS Cymru's Boccia League between the Bridgend Group, Pembrokeshire Group and the two Swansea Groups ( Swansea and Ammanford). Boccia ( pronounced 'botcha') is similar game to boules or pétanque but designed for disabled people in wheelchairs or in this case those who have mobility issues, not necessarily wheelchair- bound. The groups in South Wales have by now had grants from Disability Sports Wales (www.disabilitysportwales.com/) which has funded the equipment needed.
At last the sun came out today, and I went for a wander around the garden, looking for fungi. I wasn't disappointed.
These little souls were enjoying the sun.
Shown in portrait format following last night's presentation by John Dominick at Bognor Regis Camera Club.
I think I prefer the landscape one though, just got to decide whether to try and reshoot with more depth of field?
A play with my Christmas present, the Lensbaby Omni creative filters. Here I have used two of the wands: the crystal seahorse and the rainbow film.
See comments for this morning's play with just the Velvet lens before opening my presents.
Treasure Hunt 74: Yuletide
A walk into Storrington, saw this on the way home. Think I've got the ID right this time! Did see a new butterfly to me, but unable to photograph it, so will return another time...
Phone shot of the reflections in the font at Salisbury Cathedral, with the title being the inscription written on the side of the font.
The 'cheap ' in the caption refers to the necklace that I bought in a summer fete. The 'cheerful' however refers to the sapphire dress ring which I placed in it, not because of its value but because I'd put on so much weight in the past 18mnths ( due to not being able to exercise so much + a matter of so much corporate hospitality) that I've at long last shed some of that weight and the ring fits me again.
To say I'm overjoyed is understatement i.e. overjoyed about losing the weight - not out of vanity either but for my health's sake.
My green fingered better half had no less than 100 gladiolus corms free when he ordered some other plants online. I was astonished to see the colour on this, also curious to see what other colours we have, not that he's planted them all - just three or four in a few pots . The others went for the compost recycling bag but talk about the 'throw away generation'...
At last a chance to put my new 400mm Lens to the test. This is taken from the Red Kite Feeding Station, Llanddeusant. In all the years I've been going there, the kites wouldn't swoop in for their food but I'm quite happy with the few shots I had of them in the air.
We did another of our pub walks from an old book today, starting from the Sloop Inn at Freshfield Lock, near Haywards Hill.
There are a lot of very grand houses, several of which had paths along their drives like this.
A lovely lunch was partaken of at The Sloop, where the girl behind the bar was fascinated by the book, which was a 1996 reprint, the year she was born!
Seen on my garden path today by Huw as he was lifting up the last of the trays of flowers he was planting up. I was indoors prepping to go away when I heard his excited shouting. I dashed out as quickly as I could, but was in so much haste that the settings were all wrong on my camera - I'd have preferred a narrower f/ stop .... yet I'm over the moon to have seen one because it's a first. Another shot in comments...
This is our son's dog captured before our son arrived to pick him up after we'd looked after him for a week.
This is a Blue Tit which fledged from our nest box this morning. One minute I was upstairs looking through my back window at an adult busy back and fore the nest with grubs, but no sooner than I came downstairs, I noticed a little grey fluffy thing outside my patio window. By the time I opened my back door with camera in hand it had managed to jump up into the far corner of our patio and was sheltering and squeaking inside Huw's Auricula theatre. I left it there in the hope a parent would find it but kept watch to see what would happen - it waddled along the side of the fence out of sight . I also spotted two more in a flower border but not an adult in sight. I thought I'd best stay indoors in case I scared any adults but then our window cleaner came so the only creature left in my garden as I type is an orange - tipped butterfly.
This also might be my last upload to the Infinite Possibilities Group until Flickr is up and running after its planned Downtime...
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Taken this morning at Aberglasney Gardens, Carmarthenshire with my 18 -400mm lens, This is the lens that I sought advice about last Friday because the barrel gets sticky and stiff as I try to zoom out with it. Today was no exception and if anything it was worse. Thankfully I was able to carry my 70-200mm lens in my back pack today so spent part of the morning experimenting with that.
I noticed the sky was rather lovely early on, so went down to the neighbours field in my pyjamas and wellies.
This one is just a little later, once I'd been back up and thrown some clothes on!
Another mile in the pool, which was empty after the session. I snuck down with my waterproof point and shoot to try and get an under/overwater shot.
Camera Club monthly challenge: Lead In Lines.
A few hours walking around Craig y Nos Country Park this morning hoping to capture some autumn colours but the light was too flat for much of that. I've captioned it this because it's place we used to regularly bring our son when he was little ( old scanned pic in comments)
A dismal day, so finally summoned up the energy to have a play with smoke.
Lit from the left with one speedlight + red filter, desk lamp to the right to aid focus and see when the smoke was doing something instead of just going up in a straight line!
Another wet-all-day kind of day. Went into Worthing to buy fabric for some clothes bags for the campervan, had a coffee in Findon Valley (bet Graham knows where!) and had a play with a lime on my light pad protected by clingfilm.
Two triple exposures combined in Photoshop for a bit more zing... Cubata tonight!
Treasure Hunt 19: Citrus
Finally up and running on Wi Fi and this was my intended Photo a Day.
We had lots of fun travelling through Snowdonia earlier today, this being one example. I noticed some tourists doing a forced perspective shot using a mobile phone. Not to be outdone ;) I gave it a go myself , trying to put my finger on the summit of Snowdon. Mega - fail on my part because a) my finger was wobbling due to something called 'intention tremor' and b) I must have short arms . Great fun though nonetheless . In comments I've put a photo of the same view that I captured last year.
A visit to Wistmans Wood on the way home from Cornwall.
Horizontal rain on the walk in and out brought up the issue of new waterproofs, but at least I stayed warmer and drier under the trees with flash providing some focal lighting... (using a green gel)
Treasure Hunt 33:Green
Calennig is a Welsh word meaning "New Year celebration/gift", although it literally translates to "the first day of the month", deriving from the Latin word kalends. The English word "Calendar" also has its root in this word
In Wales children would call from door to door collection Calennig (New Year’s Gift). They would go from house to house, bearing good wishes for the health and prosperity during the year to come.
This was symbolised by the skewered apples, with cloves and sprigs of evergreen, which they carried in their hands. Children would sing and receive small gifts of food or money for their troubles.
In my time I’ve seen variations of these so this is one I made myself after going out this morning with my secateurs scouring neighbours’ gardens for suitable leaves.😳
Arrived home from London later than anticipated last night and where incidentally I discovered that the roads aren't in fact paved with gold but so many roads closed because of major road works , diversions , congestion, so on and so forth, with little inclination towards my Photo a Day today . I captured this in Huw's study in an upstairs room then realised there was a sheep missing - is there a shepherd in the house, I wonder? 😳
Taken in my garden this afternoon after buying a new camera and a new lens. I quite fancied the Canon 80D after trying it out three years ago but I had to take into consideration the weight factor because my everyday and versatile lens is a Tamron 18- 400 mm which can be fairly heavy when it's around my neck all day. I opted for the lighter 77D but also treated myself to a lens I've been wanting for ages.
This is SOOC with the new camera and new lens.
Whole day spent decimating rhododendrons...
A viola bought for the Macro Mondays theme of Complementary Colours. Decided to try a bit of a botanical drawing effect today, as well as getting one flower photographed.
Lightbox, then Lightroom and Photoshop. Finished off in Perfect Effects 9 with the Russell border.
After a ridiculously early start to the day again, and having grappled with the idiosyncrasies of an update to Microsoft Word 16 resulting in an hour trying to find and restore the Track Changes that I'd done yesterday, we set off in the car to find gold. That being the golden colours of the rapeseed fields around the Vale of Glamorgan. How could I forget what I'd learned in my school days about Crop Rotation ? We ended up on the gloomiest of days at Nash Point and its iconic Lighthouse before going for a hearty meal at The Horsehoe Inn . After that we took a different route home and struck gold after all (in comments)
"Nash Point Lighthouse is an iconic 19th century, grade 2 listed, historic building. It is a major part of our social and maritime history and was the last manned lighthouse in Wales, being de-manned in August 1998, just a month, or so, before the last manned lighthouse in the U.K. (North Foreland in Kent) was switched over to automatic operation."
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Not the shot I had in mind for today because we travelled to Caerphilly for MS Cymru's 'aMaSing' Choir Rehearsal at the old Miners Hospital ( these days , now used as a community centre) and I'd photo'd the wonderfully ornate fireplace......on the wrong settings. When we got home I photo'd these instead- what's left of a bag of home grown potatoes grown by our son which he gave us a few evenings ago when he invited us for a BBQ at his place.