Photo365 – Day 167 – Delicate
A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
Photo365 – Day 166 – Plan B
Plan A was to photograph tonight’s lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn’t going to shift. So there’s no moon and I need a plan b. Fortunately I took…
Photo365 – Day 165 – Caterpillar
Well actually having looked it up, it’s not really a caterpillar, it’s a larvae from the sawfly. I get these every year on my Solomon’s Seal plant that I photographed earlier in my photo365 series. The species is known as the…
Photo365 – Day 164 – Into the sun
“Never shoot into the sun” was something you were always told not to do. That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here with the Olympus EP2 and…
Photo365 – Day 163 – The First Poppy
We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy. The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from the incline wall were used to fill the main part of the pond and…
Photo365 – Day 162 – The Price of Gold
I was at the petrol station today and, as I’m sure you’re aware, the cost to fill up a tank is now stupendous. Will it soon be as valuable as gold? Perhaps that’s why they supply gloves! I came back with what I’d intended to…
Photo365 – Day 161 – Olympic tape
I bought some tape…like Sellotape… but from a pound shop. It’s quite annoying that they sell 5 rolls for £1, so it makes people think they have a bargain. But the amount of tape on each roll is so little that the total on all five rolls…
Photo365 – Day 160 – resyncing with water melons
Tonight I installed lightroom and am re syncing my catalogue. As I do this I’m working my way through a bag of water melon sweets from one of those old fashioned sweet shops. If you’ve never tried these and have a sweet tooth I’d highly…
Photo365 – Day 159 – Loading programs
I’m almost back to where I was at the weekend before the computer drive died…although still behind on the photo365 project I managed to squeeze a few photos in. And am playing catch up now. This was taken yesterday using the self timer to add…
Photo365 – Day 158 – grrr…f***ing computers
Day three without a PC so I decided to take it to David to see if he could fix it. Result – The Seagate 500Gb Sata harddrive is kaput. It’s the second drive to die in less than a year! This one just gave up without a real warning. No virus,…