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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'...
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.
A visit to Highdown Gardens before the camera club coffee morning in the reopened tea rooms.
We'd had a frost at home, but on the other side of the Downs it looked as if it had only been a heavy dew.
Later in the day, we had sleety snow, which settled briefly on Chanctonbury Ring. Shot through open car window past driver in comments...
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? 😳
Lots of classic American cars in Steyne Gardens, Worthing on Sunday. Sadly they were so shiny, this female dragonfly thought she was laying her eggs in water :-(
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...
Gardening all morning, trying to find our patio again. The rose needed dead-heading, so I kept the same bllom as I photographed the other day to go on the lightpad.
A high-key one, with wooden texture added. This is the only way I can paint!
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.
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.
101 Things you never knew you needed: A Giant Peg.
Gadget: a small mechanical or electronic device or tool, especially an ingenious or novel one.
Note: As a gadget becomes widely used, it is no longer referred to as a gadget.
I'm sure a peg was novel once, and I still think it's ingenious, especially if you have to try and repair one, when it becomes intractable! Quite how useful a giant one is may perhaps be debated...
Treasure Hunt 31: Gadget
This tiny little engraved tag was on Addy's saddle when I bought it years ago. I don't know who Vixen was, but the tag made me imagine a much-loved family pony. I couldn't bear to remove the tag. Now I am torn between keeping it or letting it go with the saddle, as I clean the tack ready for going to a car boot tack sale.
An excursion to two fishing villages on Magerøya. The landscape was very black and white, but these grasses caught my eye the most.
Treasure Hunt 17: Black and White in Colour
A bike ride in Friston Forest. The wild flowers and butterflies were magical, but this caught my eye for my POTD. Around 3" in diameter, obviously not a dandelion.
So there we were yesterday, doing what we do- Huw gardening and me photoing, when news broke that we we were featured in this you tube video 😳
If you can , then listen to it - it's very moving
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACno0VSul7g&feature=youtu.be
I couldn't figure the other day why I was approached for a photo of both of us - I'd prefer to be behind the camera and Huw by nature is camera shy. We appear about 3/4 of the way through the youtube vid, but instead of forcing anyone anyone to watch it, I've brazenly put it in comments, one of the group that I captured last year and finally the lady who inspired the song.
I keep asking myself, how did I get here apart from the obvious when I prefer wildlife and the great outdoors ?
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."
nashpoint.co.uk/
On arrival at Bergen airport, these patterns in the glass caught my attention. The airport is just visible between the patterns behind the glass.
Treasure Hunt 15: Behind Glass
Our Pebbles seems to think that this is her place while we are eating our dinner, despite us politely pointing out ther error of her ways.
As she is 17 and completely deaf, perhaps we haven't been firm enough!
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 day spent in Brighton. Sadly the photography mentoring for people affected by homelessness I was there for was cancelled, but I had already gone earlier hoping for rough seas.
I got the tides wrong, but was able to go back after following an Extinction Rebellion protest, and the waves were behaving very well (or not so, as I got a soaking soon after this!).
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 late afternoon play with an old Dinky Toy found in Mum's effects a few years ago...
Just realised this is perfect for the Treasure Hunt 50: On My Street
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.😳
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.
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.
A photo op presented itself to me over breakfast this morning as Huw prepared to go out and perform his pastoral duties to those sick and infirm
Awake with the dawn chorus at silly o'clock today, so caught this just before it dipped below the trees behind the garden.
It's very rare that I upload only the one photo a day on Flickr but having been so busy of late, but also because what I do on a daily basis is very much web based there's nothing I love doing most than to sit and read for a total recharge .
One of the many planted by Swansea City Council in Glyncollen Woods. Still a bit under par so Huw drove me the short distance - make what you will of the caption.
Another 'bad weather' day so we took advantage of the Christmas Gift from our son and partner, of an Afternoon Tea for two at The Celtic Manor Resort, Newport.
www.celtic-manor.com/dining/afternoon-tea
A phone shot uploaded at the time though I did take a number of shots with my Compact Camera, with the heavy traffic on the M4 I wasn't sure what time we'd get home.
Lots of photo ops in the garden today including a hummingbird hawk moth buzzing around a pelargonium but it was too fast to capture on camera . I captured these instead before cutting a few and bringing them indoors.
Taken at Lower Swanwick looking across the River Hamble. So captioned because Swanwick has become particularly popular with visitors, because the river and its landmarks are where many of the scenes for the former television series Howards' Way were filmed. 'The Jolly Sailor' Public House, a pub made famous by the former BBC television series Howards' Way can be seen from Bursledon Bridge, which carries the A27 across the River Hamble, when looking west.
Photo in comments is of The Jolly Sailor taken on one of our visits many moons ago because it's hidden behind the masts in this.