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I think that I have become a little bit more adventurous in my photography. By that I mean that I have been more prepared to take pictures of things, from different angles, because I am not sure what will make a good picture, so I try. Sometimes it may work out. Most of the timeContinue reading “553 – Photography”

At six thirty in the morning there isn’t much happening at the waterfront. The Gosport ferry going backwards and forwards, a Brittany ferry coming in usually it’s the Mon St Michel or the Normandie. Yesterday morning it was the Barfleur, a ferry that I don’t think I had seen before. This morning, the Mon StContinue reading “552 – Down at the waterfront”

I’ve just started reading A history of photography, but I have a bit of a dilemma. Several hundred posts ago, I started reading about the Hubble Telescope, but I stopped fairly early in to the book as I quickly realised that although the history of the telescope was accurately reflected , in terms of discoveriesContinue reading “551 – Book of the Week”

The Delfin, taken whilst on board the ferry heading towards Portsmouth. The Delfin if outbound. Yesterdays post was very short. My apologies for that. I had a seriously lovely day for more reasons than the consumption of alcohol. It was a mini pub crawl with two people for whom I have an awful lot ofContinue reading “550 – Yesterday”

This is HMS Warrior, I was on a trip across to Portsmouth today. I had a really nice time. I’m really sorry, tonight’s post is very short. I am absolutely fine, I have had a seriously lovely day. I went to bed very late last night, and I have been out this afternoon, leaving meContinue reading “549 – A trip across the water”

I’m sat at my desk. I have a set of minutes to write up from the Annual General Meedting of the RAYNET group of which I am secretary. The meeting was last Wednesday, and this is the first chance I’ve had to do it. I’m going to do this post first though, because I alwaysContinue reading “548 – Writing”

Last night I talked about trying new things in photography, and posted the above picture. I’ve had, not surprisingly, questions as to “What is it?” Well; It’s a milk shake bottle, I had opened the clasp pointed the camera down in to the spout and got as close as I could. The yellow/white part inContinue reading “547 – What was it?”

A bit of experimentation doesn’t hurt. I acknowledge that I’m not very adventurous with my photography, mainly lack of ideas really. I have thousands of pictures like this; It’s fair enough that every picture taken from or near this spot is different, unique in its own way because of the sky. Some of them couldContinue reading “546 – It’s all in the detail”

I went out for my lunchtime walk today. I was walking over the Forton Lake Millenium Bridge, when I had one of those moments. It wasn’t quite like de ja vue, but it was a strange feeling. I’ll explain. In my life there have been four films that have had what I would class asContinue reading “545 – Great Expectations”

At the moment, I’m reading a book about how preparations for D-Day was affecting the local area. It’s fascinating and it prompted our visit to Warsash the weekend before last. I’m about halfway through the book, and am looking for mentions of specific locations, rather than “just” towns. I have several books lined up, oneContinue reading “544 – Books”