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Going back to a bit of still life photography now as i have not done much in this area for a while now. I am really getting into doing diptych's lately so really i am just doing some simple experiments. I found it really hard to come up with a title for this image/photograph as there really is not a lot of meaning behind both shots tied together. So the title words are partly from heavy rock metal and indie band 'Iron Butterfly' who i am not a particular fan of but it did help me though by using the song lyrics to one of their songs. I have slightly rearranged the words into my own to make it more personal to me.
When i was listening to a song by the band Elbow which is called 'One Day Like This' it made me think of these two photographs. So i can sort of relate it back to that song. So on the day i taken both these shots which i think work very well together, i was very bored so i just got my camera out and just experimented really using natural window light. I got a plate then just spread purple glitter, then placed a few beads and petals on to the plate. I just want to thank everybody on flickr for commenting on this photograph because i have used some of those words as my tags.
I wanted there to be a certain softness behind both images/photographs with a sense of beauty conveyed by the pink colors. There is also a little bit of a twist with my intense hand holding onto the flower. This photograph is open to many interpretations but i will leave that for the audience to decide. It could maybe relate to friendship or not. I will not give no more away now.
I love glitter, also I have been into the color purple a lot lately.
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More shots from my fabulous big cat photography day at the WHF in Kent...
Pepo is an 8-year old male cheetah.
More shots from my fabulous big cat photography day at the WHF in Kent....
Kafara & Manzi live alongside third brother Tiny, and they are some of the only male lions in the world who are able to live together and share an enclosure without it all turning to violence! There's clearly a lot of affection between them, particularly these two who seemed to follow each other around and often seemed to mirror each other's position while dozing, although the scars on their faces show there have been some fisticuffs too. I caught them having a lovely time licking each other and having a tender snuggle together, which was just lovely to watch. :)
05/05/07 - We participated in a sponsored pram push/walk in Daventry Country Park in aid of Bliss, the premature baby charity. The walk was organised by my brother-in-law and his wife to raise money for the Luke Thomas Allcott Precious Star Fund. Luke and his sister Grace were born on 04.05.06 at about 3 months premature. The walk marked Grace's first birthday and honoured Luke, who sadly passed away.
After the walk we went back to Norton Village Hall for Grace's Birthday party. During proceedings, Purpleglitter and I popped out and visited Luke's grave, and we found this gorgeous little spot not that far from him.
The outside of the Selfridges building at the Bullring in Birmingham.
Last weekend saw Neil and I spending a wonderful couple of days with the fabulous v1ctory_1s_m1ne and Purple Glitter (aka Stu and Den). It was the first time I'd been into Birmingham City Centre and, as everyone does, I just had to take a few pictures of this amazing structure!
Detail of the inscription around the toposcope on top of the Beacon, the highest point in the Malvern Hills at 1395 feet.
Inspired by Mr. Nickster2000.
PurpleGlitter: "You know, the light was lovely at 7.30 this morning when I left for the gym. That's the time to be out taking photos really."
V1ctory_1s_M1ne: "Fancy getting up hideously early on Saturday then, and walking the Malverns?"
PG: "Errrr...OK then!"
And so, they did!
This was taken just after 8am from the top of Black Hill. We think the hill you can see is Edge Hill
Sundial in the walled garden, Baddesley Clinton.
A companion piece to this photo.
Baddesley Clinton, a medieval moated manor house and garden in Knowle, Solihull.
This is Tiny, so named as, believe it or not, he was the runt of his litter. He's the handsomest of three gorgeous 6-year old brothers who now call WHF in Kent their home, and I was lucky enough to get close enough to stroke his mane, and look him right in the eyes. Just magnificent.
V1M very kindly organised for me to go to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent for a Photographers on Safari day. This meant access inside the normal outer barriers that visitors are normally restricted behind, and enabled me to get right up against the inner enclosure, with camera lens as close as could be to the main enclosure. As well as our photographic instructor - John Wright - on hand to advise on technique, we also one of the cats' keepers, Becky, to tempt the animals out of hiding and into more photogenic positions with some tasty bits of meat.
As some of you will know I am a bit of a fan of animals and big cats in particular so I was rather in my element! Not only did I get some rather lovely photos of some gorgeous animals, but just being at such close quarters with them for the whole day was wonderful in itself.
A couple of weekends back saw PG and I down South for the last of her 33rd Birthday presents from me, which was a day's photography and tuition shooting big cats at the Wildlife Heritage Foundation, near Smarden in Kent.
Safe to say she absolutely loved it, and you can see the stunning results on her stream here.
While she was doing all that, I tootled round the south coast hoping for inspiration to strike, and finally shoot something with the new arsenal worth talking about, taking in Hastings and Battle, and coming away from both locations thinking "Meh!".
So, I arrived back at the WHF at 5 o'clock to pick Den up, feeling a bit disappointed, and like I should have had more to show for my efforts than a half empty petroltank and traces of my lunch on my t-shirt. Only when I got there, all the photographers were still on their free-time section of the days shoot (where they could go back and get some more shots in the bag of their favourites), and after 10 minutes of oohing and ahhing at the various felines as Den was getting her final shots, I finally thought, "Sod it, I'm going to have a bash as well."
So I did ;)
I only tried for the Lions in the end (evening was fast approaching), but I'm damn glad I had a go while I was there :)
I took this of some of the gorgeous shallow water out at the edge of Lindos Bay on the first of our two pedalo trips.
It looked so inviting, it took all of what little will-power I have to stop me from jumping in :)
This little beauty is a Pallas Cat, photographed at WHF.
V1M very kindly organised for me to go to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent for a Photographers on Safari day. This meant access inside the normal outer barriers that visitors are normally restricted behind, and enabled me to get right up against the inner enclosure, with camera lens as close as could be to the main enclosure. As well as our photographic instructor - John Wright - on hand to advise on technique, we also one of the cats' keepers, Becky, to tempt the animals out of hiding and into more photogenic positions with some tasty bits of meat.
As some of you will know I am a bit of a fan of animals and big cats in particular so I was rather in my element! Not only did I get some rather lovely photos of some gorgeous animals, but just being at such close quarters with them for the whole day was wonderful in itself.
Last weekend saw me and PG down in our nation's capital again for four fantastic days of friends, photography, food, and general farting about :)
We got up to so much while we were down there I'll not bore the pants off you now, instead you can see the photographic results over the course of the next few weeks (we took a LOT of shots). That said, the main reason we were down there was to see the stage musical version of "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" on the Saturday night, which Den's Mum and Dad had very kindly got us for Christmas, which was, as you'd expect, fabulous (dahling ;)
We also met up with the legend that is Mark Paulda again on the Sunday, as he was in town as a stop off between Milan and Venice on another of his globe-trotting adventures, which leads very neatly onto this photo which I took on the Friday. Mark does the most awesome night shots wherever he goes, and I've been meaning to have a bash at it myself for ages, so here's my first foray (sans tripod (idiot! (>_<), in a Paulda-esque stylee.
1.3 seconds never felt so long!
So it was, that with an uncharacteristic enthusiasm for the early morning, PG and I arrived at the carpark next to Black Hill in the Malverns just after 8:00am, and on a Saturday as well!
This tree and overhang were the first things we came to as the path started it's climb upwards, little did I know I wouldn't see it again for four hours...
Speaking of PG, she wasn't messing about, and was off into the distance by the time I'd composed my first shot. You can just see her in this one. Lookit her go!
After having been away from Flickr for WAAAAY too long and neither having had chance to look at my contacts photo's or use Flickr proper (ie. actually taking any actual, real photos, and actually, really posting them), Saturday night convinced me I needed to get back on the horse and get out there (Nickster, Ron, Ronet and Dumbfunk, I owe ya for collectively reuniting me with my photo-taking mojo, you photographic Behemoths, you :)
So, after going to bed pretty late, I managed to convince PG that how she really wanted to spend her Sunday morning was not to stay tucked up in a nice warm bed and have a lie-in, but get up early and accompany me somewhere suitably photogenic "before the mist and frost lifts". Fool ;D
We ended up at Knowle Locks, and it was every bit as cold, frosty, & misty as I wanted (maybe a bit too much (>_<). Hoorah!
Most of the shots I took I spent a while longer on than normal (DF: I owe you big style for showing me how to ACTUALLY use the options I'd failed to tinker with previously), and I think it's been successful, so far in that these shots have had very little post production done on them and are pretty much "out of the camera" (bar a crop or a small contrast adjustment).
Let me know what you think, but I think they work, and I'm quite pleased considering this is the first time I've really had a "proper" play with the D40x's settings since I've had it.
To my Contacts: I know I'm late to the party, but I hope you all had great Christmasses, and I promise I'll be around a bit more from now on (prepare for a whole pile of comments from me over the coming days as I catch up with the last months worth of your shots!). Ahoy for now :)
More shots from my fabulous big cat photography day at the WHF in Kent...
Viktoria is a 2-year old puma and lives with her sister Valentina. Viktoria likes to jump from these rocks across their little pool to the log on the other side, but Valentina is a bit more camera shy.
...to take photo's. And then consume warm beverages. And cake.
I loved how the sand had streaked into all these patterns with the force of the wind blowing in from the sea, but felt I really wanted a person in shot for some sort of reference. Den then rather helpfully (unbeknownst to her), steamed into frame from the left, which gave me all of 1/2 a second before she was gone again to try and get the shot I wanted without her looking too posed or awkward. Cheers Missus :)
Note for Mrs. eNil: Observe the woolly hat. She's learning :)
the wonderful roof of union station recropped from the original following purpleglitter's suggestion
More shots from my fabulous big cat photography day at the WHF in Kent...
Petra the Lynx is 7 years old
Cute, isn’t she?
SHIM'R is part of Mattel’s BARBIE™ A FASHION FAIRYTALE series that has both fashion and Parisian themes.
Encrusted completely in purple glitter, which constantly comes off, she is not jointed and can’t sit, but her long luscious legs go on forever.
The black and white turban in her gorgeous long purple soft hair was the handle from her box. She comes with no stand or any accessories. Mattel refers to he, not as a fairy but one of the three Flairies.
I really think she is adorable. She seems to have a bit of attitude about her, which I like, and, of course, she is purple. Too bad Mattel did not take the next steps with her and make her jointed and dressable.
For my Flickr groups…
I've been a bit tied up of late, and haven't had much in the way of chance to Flickr in any respect, but that doesn't mean I haven't been taking any photos when I've had the opportunity ;)
From about mid-January I started shooting in RAW for the first time, and only now seem to have enough time to start ploughing through them and getting my head around how to work with them, of which these are the first batch. Quite pleased with a couple of them, but we'll see how we do (tenner says I wimp out and go back to shooting in JPEG before the end of Feb ;)
These were taken a couple of weeks back now on what initially appeared to be a gorgeous and not too cold looking Saturday morning. You can read the whole sorry story here on PG's stream, but it turned out we were hella wrong about how nice the weather was...
Taken while walking in the Malvern Hills. Purple Flowers taken against a blue sky and tinted in Picasa.
While the other whales head to warmer climes in winter, the Beluga (or White)Whales remain resident in the St Lawrence River Estuary all year round. We caught up with a group of them just off Tadoussac shore.
Better LARGE.
OK, so I was cleaning my bathroom, dusting a rather big, heavy bottle of bath salts, as you do.
Said bottle slipped out of my hand and into the toilet below, smashing an enormous hole in the toilet bowl about the size of my head.
Cue a lot of swearing and screaming from me.
Fortunately, 'Mr Plumb' (possibly the nicest tradesman on earth) had a spare toilet in stock and agreed to come out at 6pm on a Saturday evening to replace it.
I'll do anything to get out of cleaning the loo you know ;)
The walls by Cardiff castle feature a number of carved animals. I liked them all but didn't stop to photograph every one. I liked this one a lot though, especially the eyes.
After a hard days phototaking at Baddesley Clinton, me and PG headed off to the Orange Tree for a pint, a Pimm's, and a bag of over-priced crisps.
While there, we cogitated on a question we'd been avoiding all afternoon, where the heck were we going to shoot tonight's sunset from? We knew when it was going to happen, so felt we ought to at least try and get something, preferably without loads of buildings and other clutter in the way, but the question was where?
We were over Solihull way which is fairly level, and those bits that are significantly hilly have their line of sight blocked by other less steep hills with trees on top, so you don't quite end up seeing the closing moments before the sun's actually down.
I then remembered the graveyard and farmland surrounding Tardebigge Church, which just kind of gently drops away from a fairly steep hill, facing west. "Bob on!" I thought :)
20 miles and 45 minutes later, me and PG are setting up shop on the edge of a farmer's field, surrounded by gravestones, in the failing light, watching Mother Nature do her thang. I love this photo-taking game me :)
More shots from my fabulous bit cat photography day at the WHF in Kent...
One of two male Sumatran Tiger Cubs born at WHF a year ago. I unfortunately don't know which was which, but their names were Asu and Bawa.
It snowed in the UK yesterday, and boy did the rest of the world point and laugh as our once resourceful and undaunted nature threw in the towel over about 4 inches of snow with the majority of the country grinding to a halt.
Either way, by lunchtime it was snowing fairly heavily round here again, and we were all told to leave work at 3 o'clock (or earlier if your journey took a while). Result!
So, I had a thoroughly uneventful drive home, and on arriving back insisted to Den that we really, really ought to build a snowman, seeing as how in all the long years we've been together, we never had. So she took an hour out to roll snow round in the garden and build what we felt in the end was not a bad first attempt all told, and something that resembled a "proper" snowman.
So, after nearly putting my back out/giving myself a hernia in the process, he was finished,
with Den naming him Frosty.
And yes, we are 5 years old ;)
Malawi the Serval
V1M very kindly organised for me to go to the Wildlife Heritage Foundation in Kent for a Photographers on Safari day. This meant access inside the normal outer barriers that visitors are normally restricted behind, and enabled me to get right up against the inner enclosure, with camera lens as close as could be to the main enclosure. As well as our photographic instructor - John Wright - on hand to advise on technique, we also one of the cats' keepers, Becky, to tempt the animals out of hiding and into more photogenic positions with some tasty bits of meat.
As some of you will know I am a bit of a fan of animals and big cats in particular so I was rather in my element! Not only did I get some rather lovely photos of some gorgeous animals, but just being at such close quarters with them for the whole day was wonderful in itself.
I've gone back to the photos taken on this day back in August as there were some I didn't get round to uploading. I haven't had much time for taking pictures lately (or looking at other peoples, but I'm working on it!) but I wanted a change from my recent batch of friends, family and pets!
After a sunny afternoon at Baddesley Clinton we drove over to Tardebigge Church to watch the sunset. While V1M set up camp with the tripod, I ran around the churchyard snapping everything that didn't move. This statue is the same one V1M photographed so fabulously back in April (See here)