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Bit of a lazy bus photting session in Newbury for me today (29/03/2021) as I opted to just stand around the town's newish bus station rather than go hunting for different locations etc. It was just nice to be outside in some very pleasant early Spring sunshine for a couple of hours!
Anyway, since my last visit in 2018, the scene has changed somewhat with a new and relocated bus station and a new livery adorning the Newbury & District fleet, part of Reading Buses of course.
Stagecoach turned up with a couple from Basingstoke and one from Andover, Reading Buses with a few from Reading, and a random training bus passed by for good measure!
Bit of lunch at the Old Smithy aye Monyash!!
Sausage sani and a cappuccino!
Sat by the stove too! Nice!
78(s)miles out on Himmy today, cool but not cold. Some hazy sunshine too!!
Visiting some familar places..
Experimenting a bit with a silhouette and adding whites for sketch and wrinkle effects.
Slowly getting a bit better I think. End results are still not what I want but I'm building up more speed and accuracy. Loads to learn but so much fun.
So many changes! It's not often I wear leggings at night time, but I liked this pair. You can't really tell from the photos, but they are part leather. They are definite 'going out' leggings.
And a blouse? How often have you seen me wearing a blouse?
You can't really tell from the photos, but I was wearing a purple eye shadow. I normally steer clear of 'blue' shades, but decided to try it and it was okay.
Lastly, although you wouldn't know it, I'm wearing an unpadded bra. Yes, those boobs are all my own work! I'm wearing a tight 'wear your own bra' body shaper, which helped me to pull the required boobs in to the right place. But going out without any padding or 'chicken fillets' is a first!
bit of a holiday shot here :o)
i was proud of my wife for this one...5 months pregnant and handled the 3km walk up and down hills no worries :o). it was a really interesting place to visit, and very touristy, so we made sure that we went around the wrong way to avoid the masses :o).
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Bit worrying this- looks like the dewdrops are communicating with each other :)
Suspect this was frozen with some spiders web between the grass blades
There's a bit of a story behind this one.
One of my friends disappeared last year. It turns out that he'd had a mental breakdown and locked himself up in his room, and that's why we'd not heard from him in 2 months and he wasn't answering our calls.
I finally got around to sending him a card. I didn't know what to say. His girlfriend warned me that any kind of pressure to come out and socialise sent him back into depression. I just wrote my name on the back.
Update March 2008
- I had an email from this friend a few months ago. He said he was ready to start facing the world again. I've since met him for coffee and chats and it's wonderful to see him healthy again.
Once more... mosaic in autumn colors! For a while longer we can enjoy these colors.
Have a colorful weekend :)!
1. Peony, autumn edition, 2. autumn decoration, 3. They arrived with the autumn, 4. I Know it's Still Hot But I'm Not Longer Waiting for Autumn, 5. pumpkins, 6. gifts for friends, 7. autumn zakka trees, 8. Autumn Stone Steps, 9. dry stars, 10. Autumn, 11. Autumn wallhanging, 12. Autumn Setting 1, 13. 2008 October 4 - Fall foliage on Pleasant Street in Houlton, Maine, 14. children of the forest, 15. it's fall : let's go & pick mushrooms in the woods, 16. thimblescape
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This fine feathered friend seemed to know he was a bit special. I say He!only because it is usualy male birds who have the colourful feathers, although I don`t know the type of Duck this is, and I say Duck only because it was with a lot of other Ducks. Any bird watchers out there? Many Thanks to Russ1710, we now know its a "Mandarin Duck"
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Today I learned a bit of Quechua, an ancient Andean language that people still speak in parts of Peru and in neighboring countries.
According to our gide, the suffix in the name of loge, "rinri," means "ear." So "Pumarinri" means "Puma's ear." There may be another more metaphorical meaning that I don't know, but I'm pleased just to know what the words denote.
When we were on the trail, the guide pointed to a vine and said its name. I wasn't quick enough to remember it all, but the suffix stuck with me because it was "huasca."
I asked the guide what "huasca" means, and he replied "soga," or "rope." And rope is analgous to vine.
Later on, on the way back down the trail, the guide mentioned that his community also knows and uses "ayahuasca."
I already knew, like at least half the planet, that Amazonian people use the ayahuasca vine to induce an altered state of consciousness. Their shamans use it to communicate with the spirit world. I have this direct from a shaman in Ecuador, but that's another story. Also, according to a scholarly article I read last year, ayahuasca use may not reach back into the misty mists of time but may actually be a phenomenon related to contact with Europeans. But I digress.
So, knowing that "huasca" means "rope/vine," I asked the guide what "aya" means.
"Bitter," he replied.
Now, during the hike our guide also named the quechua names several forest mammals. Time didn't allow me to ask him to repeat them, so thus endeth the Quechua lesson.
Pumarinri Lodge. (Cute, fuzzy cat ears.)
This is Rebecca (aka Lil'Bits)... she's the daughter of dear friends who are moving away....
the "scrunchie" face she used to make, was captured for all eternity in this montage. She was about 7 months old when i shot these.... she's now a VERY rambunctious 19 months...
:)
for those who don't know ... my passion and reputaion is photgraphing newborns. (5-10 days old, usually) but i shoot it all, and have my own style and...am proud of the .... fine-art quality of my work.
When i get "bummed".... all i have to do is look at this montage for a minute, to rekindle the inspiration for doing what i do.!
:)
thanx lil'Bits.
:)
A little bit of my autumn colour. I can never match the colours of North America, we never have sharp enough frosts or a sudden cooling of temperature. Tree on left is my Tulip tree, I cut it back to just a main trunk every spring so that is all one years growth. Hoping to get a mass of yellow leaves in autumn, only once in 35 years has it behaved as It supposed to in autumn
Bit of a stormy day.In front of one of the largest block of flats and indeed buildings in Scotland
22-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, designed by J Holmes & Partners and completed in 1968. It is the tallest listed building in Scotland, and is remarkably similar to Ernő Goldfinger's later and more famous Trellick Tower in London. It is the only tower block in Glasgow to have been granted a category A listing
I know this one is a little bit obvious for this exhibtion but as I said in the other 'stomach' photo I needed to do it as part of my personal recovery...
I have been so touched by the comments I have received from flickr people over the last couple of days.
My hope was that by telling my story it would help others to understand the illness a little or for those who are suffering/have suffered to not feel so alone.
From what I have heard from you it's working!
I am hoping to have some kind of online space for comments about the exhibition. When I've got something sorted I will let you know. Please do contact me if you'd be willing to let me add any of your comments, responses and thoughts to an exhibition logbook type thing - whether that's online or in print.
Many thanks to you all...
Experiments for an exhibition about a journey to recovery from anorexia.
I am working on 6 images of "illness" and 6 images of "recovery".
This exhibition is a big challenge for me but it is something I really want to do. So, I guess the first step is to post a few of my "works in progress" on flickr.
The exibition will be on show from 6th February in Brindley Place in Birmingham. Details to follow...