I woke fairly early and decided to check the sky, as it was clear I popped out into the garden in the hope of photographing comet Ison. I managed a few ‘star’ photographs before the cloud started to play games, the horizon was clear one minute and obscured the next. I’ve yet to check all the photographs for Ison, but I did like this one star pic. In between looking for Ison I turned the camera towards the Moon. After a while I watched the clouds more than the stars…
Read MoreMonth: November 2013
Dawn again
Decided to watch the dawn before heading to the shops this morning, I was glad I did, it helped recharge the batteries 😉 I also decided to try out the time interval setting on the camera 🙂
Read MoreLight Fantastic
We stopped briefly just outside Penrith to look back towards the Lakeland Fells as the light was just breaking through the cloud. Decided it was worth a photo or two 😉
Read MoreIt’s Chilly
We had a quick run out this morning, it was the first really frosty morning of the season :-/ so it took us a while to get the car frost free. Anyway, we stopped for a few photographs along the way… I also took a large panoramic… Then I focussed on a few leaves. And while I’m posting leaf photographs, here’s one from yesterday.
Read MoreThe Arabian Knight
I should start by saying I’ve been under the weather since the weekend, coughing fits, breathless, dizzy… great fun really 😉 anyway I couldn’t settle sitting doing nothing at all but wasn’t fit to do any real work :-/ so I decided to finish of my Arabian Knight painting – it obviously took me two hours to paint one rock as I either had to stop and cough up a lung or wait while my nose stopped running. Anyway, here’s the Arabian Knight – Mainly gouache on watercolour board with…
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