Category Archives: personal blog

We went to the Camera club this evening, we had an excellent session on Macro photography. Now, I did take some pictures, but I haven’t transferred them off the camera onto the computer. So tomorrows post will be about tonights activity, sorry about that. Today’s header picture comes from an encounter on my morning walk.Continue reading “1589 – Camera Club Part 1”

Thumbnails are the small pictures that accompany typically a YouTube video, they are the advert for the video, and therefore the producer should attempt to make them as attractive as possible to entice you in to watch the video. The default if a thumbnail isn’t deliberately produced is to grab a random still from theContinue reading “1588 – Thumbnails”

It’s private in the sense that if you have a llink, you can view it and share it, but people won’t find it. It’s really not very exciting, but I did promise a video, and so here it is. The fact that I’ve added something to YouTube is, for me amazing. I do want toContinue reading “1587 – In which I publish a video”

It’s the weekend. Before i could do anything, I needed to sort out. Luckily, everything went smoothly. It took me a bit of time to work out what i was going to do, and visiting the Apple Dumpling Bridge became a goal. One I didn’t achieve. I did shoot a video, about two minutes worth.Continue reading “1586 – Getting out – kind of”

Since buying the Insta360 flow Pro 2 gimbal for my birthday, I have been shhoting quite a few videos, practicing “speaking to the camera”. I have to say, that it is inot as easy as you might think. What I can say is that none of the videos I have shot will intentionally make theirContinue reading “1585 – Vlogging”

Thursday nights is Thursday Night Net time, between 8PM and 9-ish. Tonight I was set up and ready and raring to go. The first round went OK, although I didn’t really have a grip of the evening’s topic. By the time of the second round of overs I’d lost it completely. I probably fell asleepContinue reading “1584 – TNN, fell asleep”

I didnv’t go for a walk this morning. We were busy doing things before Elayne had to go out early, and a couple just didn’t go right. A sense of frustration was building, and I needed to calm down. Also, I was very tired and just didn’t feel right for a walk. I was lookingContinue reading “1583 – One of those days”

Tuesday Nights are Camera club nights, and this week Gosport hosted the next stage of the South Coast Photographic Federation (SCPF) League competition. Our club isn’t at the top of the league, our club is in the third division. I haven’t got this quite worked out yet. The club produces Some excellent work. Perhaps weContinue reading “1582 – Camera Club – SCPF”

Over the last few nights I’ve mentioned the latest history book I’ve bought, Rebellion by Tim Harris with the subtitle of Britains first Stuart Kings. I have to say that the book holds a lot of promisr, starting with the fly leaf which informs potential readers that the book covers the period from 1567 (TheContinue reading “1581 – Rebellion!”

I took this picture from the upper floor of the discovery centre on Saturday afternoon, it looks out over the open area next to the council offices. There’s a burger van at roughly the one o’clock position part of the market that is on in town. The burger van is a regular, although I’ve neverContinue reading “1580 – The High Street”