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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.
Once again not my intended shot for POTD but we've been tied up helping our son move into his new home today and no sooner than we poured something refreshing, this idea came to me.
PS. Exhausted is understatement , catch up with commenting as soon as I can.
The prayer flage were looking lovely in the morning sunshine outside my den window (shot from inside with the window opened).
The rain returned, so I got Bobbie and his/her new friend out for a play.
Concept seen at Sussex PF Print Championships in March, and I realised that Bobbie's incident at the last photoshoot made it possible to emulate the image by Graham Deacon of Seven Sisters CC. Thanks for the inspiration!
Lightsabers created in PS using their Neon effect which keeps popping up when I open PS.
Tunnel from 28.2.18 when I did a Hidden London tour of disused tube tunnels at Euston, which was a competition entry at SCC on Thursday night which, although being a good image, did not hold the judge's attention...
Perhaps it would now!!
We left home on a grey day, and as we got closer to Brighton, the skies lightened.
Blue sky and sunshine, and the Comedia legs seemed to be kicking for joy.
I was having a 500 calorie/day kind of day, then confirmed an evening out with friends for a pub meal. I think I got a little overexcited about the idea of having pudding instead of thin air! Found a way to see the stress patterns in plastic without having to buy two very expensive sheets of polarising film.
Thank goodness for t'internet!
A Still Life
The most wonderful day today at Westonbirt Arboretum . But oh so many people taking selfies against the trees, and also many people constantly looking down at their mobile phones as they followed the throngs, oblivious to the beauty around us. This is Huw in a moment of despair / teasing about it asking the above.
.... " Long ago it must be...
I have a photograph,
Preserve your memories "
Father's Day in the UK today and as a rule I'd put up a shot of the gift from our son to Huw. However we stopped him coming to visit today because Huw is rather poorly with a virus. Instead this is a photo album that my own father brought home for my mother when he served in the Middle East during WW2. As a child I used love poring over the pictures inside - one page of which, I've added in comments.
Probably just a bit too late, but managed to get out and look at the frost in the garden, again using the Lensbaby Sweet 50.
A bee and a ladybird on Cosmos in my garden. Since we turned a part of our garden over to plants for pollinators, I'm astonished as to what I see when I check the garden each morning. I tried to capture a Green Lacewing head deep in a Morning Glory before this but it didn't turn out too well, neither did the shot of a Green Shield Bug Larva I tried to get a few days ago..
I'd initially thought of captioning this simply 'Bookend' until I realised how much history is in this room. It's my very significant better half's study . The bookend is new but the books are a set that his late dad gave him once he'd retired. They're so old , yet Huw uses them, reads them on a regular basis and takes notes from them .
However this room was my own study many years ago, also the room that my late mother lived in for three years whilst I gave her 24/7 care as she was dying from cancer. In later years, it was the room used for my son's friends for sleepovers .
When he grew up it turned into a junk room, but in the last few months Huw needed a room of his own to continue with his work .
Dave's birthday was showery, so no walk or mtb ride. Instead a trip to Arundel for a wander around and tea and scones.
This heron was playing statues, then flew off as I put the camera down!
A day spent with 10 others and Viveca Koh, working on layers in Photoshop. Multiplicity was the final challenge.
Seeing these supports, I was taken back to games of "It" on similar pillars in front of the pottery sheds at my primary school.
Memories of other things happening there as well, but that would be telling tales ;-)
4 candles to represent Advent and light, holly with berries for suffering and life force, Marigold’s for healing, a rose for love and a bell to welcome the return of the light
桜 is the Japanese symbol for Sakura, otherwise known as Cherry Blossom. This is a small cluster of cherry blossom growing from my drooping cherry tree in my front garden.
So captioned because this Painted Lady in my garden, I swear has been papp'ed today as much as Julia Roberts in the film
Inspired by the work of Marston Hart from Battle Photographic Society at the Sussex Photographic Federation Print Championships, I decided to have a go at emulating this concept.
Today we rose early to get to Newborough Forest Anglesey in search of Red Squirrels. We arrived at 7 am and sat waiting till 7.30am before we saw any . What a treat to see four separate ones but also to watch them scamering up and down the trees, in and out of the feeders until we left at 8.30 am ( two more shots in comments )
I feel a certain sadness using this as today's POTD because as a rule on St. David's Day, I'd put up something pertaining to that and my day would be spent photo'ing the events in Swansea City Centre. Seeing as I'll be spending the day and evening involved in a Charity Event , this is one of our Auction lots . An old friend from school and teacher training days gave me a voucher for Colliers Photography for me to auction a canvas of one of my photos, Here it is at home ready to be taken to the venue . Catch up with commenting once the world slows down.
PS I can't let this day go though without a bit of "Welshness" so below in comments you'll see something I captured many moons ago....
A wander around the churchyard while Dave was waiting at the barber's. Trying to find out what works with the Velvet 56, and the aperture to use.
Captured on the Pier at New Quay, Wales whilst waiting for a boat trip. That morning I'd caught a feature on BBC Breakfast News warning people not to feed or attract these gulls
I'm beging to get concerned that I'm verging on the obsessive with so many moon shots - my last upload for the day yesterday was of this. However, I thought best get my POTD in the bag early due to an Opthalmic Appointment later and depending on which drops I get I may not be able to view the screen for a number of hour after it.
Out between 9.30 and 10 waiting for the ISS, which I then nearly missed. Midged twice through walking trousers :-(
Two images merged in PS.
FCB 52 Week Challenge week 30: High.
A day spent in Carmarthen today with 'business' in the morning followed by a visit to our son and also a bit of Christmas Shopping. I've uploaded two alternative shots from there, but seeing as we followed this all the way home in the car, I found it impossible to ignore it. Taken with my Canon 70 - 200 mm lens therefore a huge crop of the original from outside my front door step when I arrived home.
Link to the 'business' :-
www.mssociety.org.uk/care-and-support/local-
support/my-ms...
Link to my fascination with the moon
stillstumblingalong.blogspot.com/2019/09/i-love-moon-moon...
Woke up to the first frost this morning but by the time I got myself out to the garden, it had already thawed. Later on I picked this from a Passion Flower that's overgrown and running amok in my garden.
Captured with a 60mm Macro Lens and given a large crop because at the time I was busy trying to get shots of water droplets on the plants in my garden. I'm not exactly built for speed so by the time I went to get a longer lens, this had flown off into the bushes
Two years ago Huw bought a bird box but I queried whether it was too bright to attract any birds, also where he placed it because 12ft high on the back wall of our house right above our kitchen door didn't make sense to me. Yet it's the only place we knew that out of reach for any cats to get at. Look what we saw this morning 😃 two more in my photostream
Cleaned and polished my stained glass panel today, so here it is on the light pad...
Just need to get Dave to fit it now.
Sat and watched the waves at Dancing Ledge for ages. I have *slightly* tweaked the colours, as that was what my eyes could see in the water.
Today I went out with four friends that I made many years ago from WelshFlickrCymru..
We started the day with a spot of birding from the Cafe at Penllergare Valley Woods (photo in comments) before moving on to WWT Llanelli . The weather was too dark and dismal to take many photos there, not that it mattered because spending time with friends is in my books, time that is never wasted.