Bills Posts

We’ve got a reasonable selection of books. I’ve not read most of them. I thought I would take the opportunity to read some of them. Thing is, I think I’ve got the bug. So now, I have a dilemma.

I am currently reading the Photographers eye, As you might expect it’s making me think about photography. I’m about thirty pages from the end of the book, and have been thinking about what to read next.

A couple of weeks ago I decided I was to read Hubble Vision, and i am going to – but at breakfast, that’s a few pages a day, so it always takes a while. But, the photography book made me think about art, and the The Story of Art. I bought that book around 1995. I don’t think I’ve ever really looked at it. I’ll talk about that a bit more tomorrow.

I can’t remember where I heard about Britain’s Pilgrim Places – it sounded an interesting book because it involved walks (obviously). I think that will be my bed time reading.

So, it looks like I will have three books on the go.

They say you should never publish any of your bad work. Is this a bad picture?

We have two trees at the bottom of our garden. In the space between them there are a bunch of five or six hover flies that gather. They are quite mesmerising to watch, and I would love to get a decent picture of them. But, the chances of doing that with a phone are slim, so I felt quite pleased with my first effort, which really was a grab shot, This kind of highlights my dilemma, I am increasingly thinking that I am going to have to get my DSLR out, and use that more than I am my phone camera.

At the moment, I am posting almost random shots. This really should be an exercise in improving my photography. How do I do that? Technically, I think I have a reasonable understanding, not perfect of course, and my DSLR isn’t really an extension of me, because I haven’t been using it much. I need to think about this.

OK, admittedly a slightly unusual photograph, but it is one taken today. So I am maintaining the intention of taking a picture everyday. We were having problems with a new light fitting, the bulbs wouldn’t fit. An electrician had tried, we definitely had the correct bulbs (G9), they just would not fit in the holder. We couldn’t work out why, so I took a picture where we could see the internal fitting to try and work out what was going on. The clips in the middle were too tight, and would not allow a lamp to be inserted. I was lucky to be able to get one lamp in, of four. I was worried as I pressing so hard, that the bulb would shatter and I would cut my self, or get glass in my eye. I didn’t. A friend botched it, but shaving part of the mount of each bulb – surely that can’t be right? But it was the only way of doing it.

Not only did i nearly not go for a walk this morning, I almost forgot to do my daily blog. I have every intention of writing something everyday, even if I have nothing to write about. During the week I do my facebook entry, but this is a follow up, which I very much want to do even set weekends.

I almost stayed in bed this morning, I woke up slightly later than I normally do, and almost couldn’t be bothered to get out of bed. But I did, and as usual I’m glad I did. Not that anything particularly exciting happened on the walk, nor was there a nice dramatic sky, I did though get this shot, which as soon as I saw it on my screen, I liked. So tonight, I thought I would share it with you.

The boat in question is the £5.5m racing yacht. I got to the waterfront, as the project managers, and technical experts were considering the move. I wanted to watch the move, but they were obviously taking their time. As usual, I walked away, only to look back a few minutes later, to see the boat in the air.

When I started writing this, I had to google Hugo Boss, I had no idea who he was. I didn’t know that he was a real person. He was the founder of Hugo Boss, the fashion company.

A little bit of excitement on one of my walks.