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Trying for a minimalist image of our van, after taking the necessary photos for her to be reclassified as a campervan with the DVLA.
FCB 52 Week Challenge Week 42: Minimalism
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:โof natural magic. You make the powers of nature work for you, and no wonder your work is well and quickly done. (1839).
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..
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
The late afternoon sun catches the Rudbeckia Little Gold Star rather nicely. We planted this in memory of Opal, our fluffy cat who we lost almost exactly 2 years ago.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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 ๐ณ. I'll be on a more sedentary photoshoot tomorrow and I'd only forget about them if I didn't upload.
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.
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
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
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.
Every chapter of life brings new opportunities for growth and self-discovery. ๐ธ Embracing the journey of becoming the best version of myself, one step at a time. ๐โจ
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.
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
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!
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
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 Trustโs network has increased by 73% over the past 5 years.
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
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.
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.
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 ;-)