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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 😳. 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.
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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!
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.
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.
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 ;-)
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.
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.
Buying bits and pieces for the van, these patterns were tormenting me from Southwater to Horsham. Luckily the had stayed and I was able to get a few snaps.
Trimming the side growth from the oak tree trunk by our driveway in order to get our van in next week!
Placed on a light pad, texture layers added in PS.
What is it about my "Curiosities of the Causeway" SCC Photowalk that attracts extreme weather?
Back in July we coped with the hottest day of the year. This time there was an amber weather warning for heavy rain.
Looking at the forecast, I was hopeful that this would have gone through early morning, and it would clear for the walk with further rain later, so I held my nerve and didn't cancel.
This was with the proviso that, if it started raining, we would go for an impromptu coffee.
At around 11am the rain started, so here we are heading for coffee in the gloomy conditions, enlivened by a red coat.
During coffee the rain cleared, and we continued, finishing in glorious sunshine!
Treasure Hunt 25: Dim
"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.
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.
Another day spent photographing a mtb enduro race. I found a spot on stage 2 where there was a tricky tabletop jump, and didn't want to lose a potentially lucrative spot, so I had to wait several hours through practice time in the morning.
I heard a rustling next to me, and looked down, expecting to see a wren or other small bird. Instead there was a mouse! It stayed put fairly close to me in the leaves, then as I tried to move closer for my 24-105 to capture it better, it scooted across the tral and nestled by this tree for a moment. I shot this, then tried to get closer, but it was off!
Forgot that I meant to add this to the camera club monthly challenge: Woodland.
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
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!
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'...