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Inspired by this article “Photo a Day Challenge: 10 Ways to Jump Start Your Creative Edge” I am starting today – one photo taken and posted on this blog per day (internet access permitting). In the back garden I saw this rose, processed in Photoshop to remove background.
We went to Swansea last weekend to help find Claire a flat as she is moving there in a couple off weeks to start a new job. Apart from the flat hunting I could not resist the opportunity to vist a few local places. The weather was forecast to be raining but in fact we had some glorious weather. On Saturday we went to see Mumbles … … and then we went into the Brecon Beacons. Then on Sunday into the Gower. Finally on Monday we visited a farm shop where Claire found some ducks to feed … … and the local Wetlands and Wildfowl centre. Well I finally did it after much agonising – I went and purchased an Olympus E3 body on Good Friday. It is a superb camera and I look forward to posting some great images. I now need a new tripod, better lenses, remote cable and much more – I guess I’ll have to wait a little :-). We had a very busy day on Easter Monday, Maria was running the Nottingham Bear Fair – so we had to be at Patchings by 8:00 and set up everything. We had over 300 people through the door and a very sucessful fair. The blog of our visit to India is being kept by Wilbeary, a travelling teddy bear. You can read the blog at Wilbeary’s Blog. Our indian visas arrived today so everything is set – we are off to Bangalore in just over a week from now. Here are some photos that I took in 2006. I received the latest National Trust mailing at the weekend and found that Going Digital run couses at local NT properties. So I;ve booked my self on one – Clumber Park 1st March.
All packed and checked out of the hotel. Last night I went to the Amish Market and got some lo-carb tortillas to bring home and then had a cobb salad for tea. Today it is just wrapping up and handing over for the next week as we have a weeks holiday coming up – Maria is going on a painting course near David Bellamy and I’m going along as a non-painting partner. I will take some pictures and post them up here. Robert is flying across the Irish sea today to visit Claire for the weekend so we are all travelling. Well another evening shopping, went across to Battery Park City and visted both of the Gristedes and also JJ’s. I was tempted by the wonderful smell coming from Samanthas but decided to keep on the diet. I managed to get a pack of linguini, five packs of spaghetti, six packs of elbows and finally three bottles of chocolate sauce for Robert. I aso got the most important part – ten bars of Godiva chocolate. I think that’s about it for the shopping as I’m now up to my duty free allowance. |
