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Woke up early to the sound of pounding rain, and a massive clap of thunder. I got up when it was relatively quiet,to the point where I thought that it might not be raining. It was difficult to tell from the bedroom, so I went to the conservatory, a steady pounding there. I wasn’t goingContinue reading “362/366 A rainy day”

By 9AM it was absolutely chucking it down. A check of the forecast indicated 100% rain in Gosport between 9 & 1. There were a couple of times when the rain eased off almost to the point of stopping, I even had my shoes on at one point – the rain started again. I decidedContinue reading “361/366 Out for a walk”

I spoke to the people who were sailing these last week. The captain of the Gosport Model Yacht Club Laser Class, Chris, he very kindly offered me use of the clubs demo model. I turned up as agreed at 10 this morning. Now it had been raining very heavily not long before, and whilst theContinue reading “360/366 Sailing (models)”

I was walking down the high street when I saw these, shapes, lines and colours I thought that might be an interesting picture. So I stopped and grabbed it. Admittedly, I have done a little bit of cropping. I like the shapes and the colours, with even the bars being blue. I can’t tell youContinue reading “359/366 Grab shots”

It is a bit ironic that even though I live in Gosport, one the pictures I most regularly take is of Portsmouth’s waterfront. This morning is a good example of that. As soon as I arrived at the waterfront, of of the features I look at is the sky, and what that does for theContinue reading “358/365 The Waterfront”

I had to go to the Dentist. After I came out I thought I would go for a bit of a lunchtime stroll. A difference between when I go for my Morning walk and lunchtime is there are a lot more people around. For example this chap was at the Falklands Gardens, he was feedingContinue reading “357/366 A lunchtime walk”

Street Photography isn’t just about people, it is also about buildings and shadow. We don’t have buildings of the same grandeur as places like London, Paris or New York, but we do have buildings that are worthy in their own right. I’m not going to say that Gosport is a boring town, it patently isn’t.Continue reading “356/366 Street Photography in a small town”

If you can zoom in to the dogs eyes in this photo, you’ll see that it is giving me a very nervous look, almost wondering what I am up to. The question this relates to is that I have found a way of using street photography, that is pretty. Much as intrusive as I needContinue reading “355/366 Is it cheating?”

Tomorrow, the 1st of August, is the centenary of the turning of the Gosport Cockle Ponds from being just Cockle Ponds, in to being the racing home of the Gosport Model Yacht Club. Turning the ponds from the muddy edged place into the ponds as they are today with the hard standing all the wayContinue reading “353/366 Gosport Model Yacht Club”