Category Archives: personal blog

I went to Homebase today. They had a piece of MDF (they had several). It was just the wrong size. I wanted 1.25×0.5 metres – not a big piece. They had these pieces 1.2×0.61. Just slightly too short, and slightly too wide. Now, the width I can cope with. The length is a bit ofContinue reading “458 Model Railways – Again”

I haven’t been very i,pressed with my photography this week. Plenty of nighttime shots of the water and the cockle ponds, and some buildings, slightly misty a bit rainy, all in all very samey. I have to be honest and say that my writing hasn’t been much better, some of the pieces have been almostContinue reading “457 A week of writing”

OK, sorry, I need to get this out of my system – playing with colour selection in Snapseed, I thought that the sign of the The Star would be a good subject for this. The original is below. Which do you prefer? We have had a few nights where it has been sufficiently cold thatContinue reading “456 Gosport Weather”

OK, I’ve used the two photographs I’m going to include quite recently in blog posts, they are only here for illustration. The brief focus of tonight’s post is the application I used to create these pictures. That application is Snapseed. It is available on both iphone and Android, and it is completely free and notContinue reading “455 SnapSeed”

It appears that the development of the waterfront is progressing. There is no argument that the bus stop is a 1960’s or 70’s eyesore (well, I think it’s 1960’s or 70’s. It definitely needs to be replaced. The bus stop is going to be moved to where the taxi rank is, busses will pull inContinue reading “454 The Waterfront”

The harbour was surprisingly busy this morning. There were two small fishing vessels heading out with one coming in. The Pilot vessel was behaving unusually. It was loitering and cam to a stop towards the harbour entrance. I can only think this was to allow the Amourique to come in. Once the Brittany Ferry hasContinue reading “453 Village Life”

We’ve had a busy weekend, doing things around the house. There was an opportunity today when I could have gone for a walk but I decided not to. It’s the first time in quite a long time since I have deliberately avoided going for a walk. But I don’t really feel guilty about it. IfContinue reading “452 Not walking”

Here’s the thing that I am about to do, is kind of blame other people for my rubbish photography, not the equipment, it’s the location. Invariably, the book or magazine you are reading will contain superb pictures, taken in spectacular locations at absolutely the right time of the day. They just make my pictures lookContinue reading “451 Concrete”

Don’t look for a link between Portsdown Hill and the picture. There isn’t one. I don’t have a picture of the escarpment to the north of Portsmouth (at least, I think it is an escarpment – I’ll have to check on that). Anyhow, this hill; Portsdown is about 400 feet high. From the top ofContinue reading “450 Portsdown Fireworks”

It’s been 84 days since I finished the project. Apart from one night where I got things a bit wrong (I think it was around 119/366, I am now well in to my second year of continuous blogging. Almost three months into it. I must admit some of these last 80 odd days have beenContinue reading “449 The 366 Project”