Get a request from our neighbour, can I come over and photograph one of his horses?
Sure, no problem… how hard can it be!?! Harder than I thought.
July, 2009:
It could be a long night…
Splish-splash, pant-pant
The annual Triathlon de Deux-Sevres weekend has just been and gone with an assortment of race events centred on the Base de Loisiers in Parthenay. (more…)
The final frontier
A couple of lovely evenings this weekend sat out trying to catch the ISS + STS127 flying overhead. One near-miss, one partial hit. Either way the weather has been glorious and perfect for BBQs.
Searching for spacecraft
Failed that night, did better the next. I did marginally better than my last attempt but getting the right shot is proving tricky. Practice makes perfect and all that!
All that glitters…
Briefly, in arts news. I have this photo..
Shimmering Barley
.. in the mix for submission in a piece at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool. All part of this exhibition.
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away…
… I had one of the most memorable foodie evenings of my life in Milan. I’d flown into Malpensa earlier that year in the summer and we’d rented a hilariously suicidal old-school punto and had a fine old time in Milan, The Lakes, Verona, Venice and Turin. This time I’d driven down from Liverpool and was having far, far less fun on the road – this was the tail end of a two week trip away from home and I was fed up.
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Hatching a plan
We’ve previously tried a home-made incubator, it kind of half worked after being hurriedly cobbled together after the demise of our first cockerel… but there’s a zillion reasons why it didn’t. Fine temperature control, manual egg rotation, humidity control, ventilation… all wrong.
There’s a storm a brewin’
Picture highlight this week was on Wednesday afternoon when a glimpse out of the window told a right old tale – storm clouds brewing.
Boiling clouds about an hour before the storm
… and true to form it wasn’t long before the rain came thrashing down. More skystuff on flickr
