Way back in February, on our way home from Devon, we stopped off at Bristol Zoo. I took a few photos, as usual, but I wasn’t feeling very well that day so I wanted to try and concentrate on seeing as much as possible and having a good time. I love anywhere that you can [...]
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Excuse me, are you sure you haven’t got any food…?
Last weekend we drove down to Devon, to visit Paul’s family. We stopped at Paignton seafront, where we played a dancing game on the pier, took lots of photos underneath the pier, and chased a big crow who was trying to break open an enormous shellfish by dropping it on our car! I am full [...]
Season’s Greetings
Posted in photos on Dec 24th, 2010
This little cutie was begging for another piece of the muesli bar that I was eating.
Today we went to the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre, for a wildlife photography course. I learnt far more on this course than I did at the Twilight Photography one. I think the course and the teacher were just better suited to the way I like to learn. I’m really pleased with today’s pictures (which are [...]
Twilight Photography
Posted in photos on Sep 19th, 2010
Yesterday Paul and I went to South Hill Park, for a workshop in twilight and low light photography. While it was still light, we went for a walk around the lake and staked out a good spot to take photos of the sunset. We then set the cameras to Manual (scary!) and started playing around [...]
Living History
Posted in culture, photos, re-enactment on Jul 18th, 2010
A couple of weekends ago we went to see the Fairfax Battalion putting on a Civil War re-enactment at Mapledurham. As always, I took a bunch of photos. We spent a long time chatting to the barber-surgeon, and I was surprised to find out about some of the more delicate operations that could be done [...]
Natural History Museum
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, museums, nature, photos on Jul 16th, 2010
This is the Natural History Museum in London. Quite a typical view – looking over the central hall from the giant sequoia tree, over the top of the big dinosaur skeleton, to the statue of Darwin on the main staircase. Usually people are so busy looking at the dinosaur that it simply doesn’t occur to [...]
Portwrinkle
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 14th, 2010
While we were in Devon, we thought it would be rude to go home without paying a little visit to a beach. We were told that Portwrinkle was the closest beach that didn’t require climbing down a million steps, so that’s where we went. As you can see, Portwrinkle beach is made from stones and [...]