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This is a pic that I took from across the road. I liked the woman with the push chair looking jealously towards our house. The grounds extend from the extreme left to the ox-eye daisies on the right and to the summerhouse peeping out on the left of the house. The trees behind are merely a backdrop and also prevent the sun from shining on the summerhouse. The path coming in from the left down which the woman and child have just traversed goes into the woodland. The path splits in several ways one of which goes round to the right and up behind our house.

Snow in April

This morning at about 7 am snow began to fall and soon built up quite a layer. Later i went out to buy a paper and took these two flower studies. There was a sad look to the flowers.

Meal Out

We had a meal out with our wee gang. Here I illustrate the first course viz goats cheese on ciabatta dealt with in 2 ways. The jig saw puzzle version is specially for Joan.

Here is the gang ready to order and below that two interpretations of this picture.


Below this I have added a small video of the chattering classes.

The Floods Will Come

The floods will come as these photos show. Taken under a bridge today. My feet did not get wet.

Sunday 30th March 2008

This was taken across Roger's farm on the road to Nunton village in the valley in the distance.
It was taken by locking on the exposure for the sky and then using a fill in flash for the foreground.

Boat Race Day

I judged a photographic exhibition today and the one thing that was clear was that there are now more entries that are purely digital than film derived. It also meant that there were more entries overall. This in turn meant that it took me longer than normal to write notes for each entry. On these notes I try to get the entrants to understand how to take better photos and better presentation. The quality of entries does seem to have improved over the years.
It was raining when I left the judging and so I just dashed into the churchyard and took 2 snaps. The first was of these new graves bright and cheery with spring flowers but also rather sad.
The second one was the rather curious pigeon permanently perched on a headstone. What is it trying to eat.

The window of this thatched cottage is so thick I had to photograph it. This photo is a combination of two pictures. The camera focussed on the twigs in the foreground first. So I had to take another carefully focussing on the window frame. A slight vignette has been added.


Fiona will recognise this Magnolia flower. They are now at their peak. I liked the background here. Generally magnolia flowers are on their own and so the background can be distracting.


Even here we have graffiti as seen here. I was struck by the areas of light and shade forming a design in itself.

And here are some stalactites in the middle of Harnham! They hang from some old garage roofs. Tony should know these.