Autumn Colours

The autumnal colours are really looking nice at the moment, fiery red leaves blazing against the deep shadows of the distant woods. So today I wandered around with the camera and looked at the colours, how the light caught a particular leaf whilst all the others were in shadow, it was the perfect time to be out with a camera. It was only logical for me to end up taking something which I intended to be in black and white πŸ˜‰   I did take some colour shots, I’ll sort…

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Away with the fairies

I’ve been away with the fairies for the last couple of weeks, well, I’ve been reading about some of the myths surrounding fairies, fay, fae, fair folk…. I started with Tolkien’s On Fairy Stories, which felt like a natural starting point, I then went on to read Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major for obvious reasons πŸ™‚ and delved into Celtic Twilight by Yeats. They all pointed me in different directions but all had a common them in many respects, if time allows this week I’d say another reading of Faerie…

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Code Name ‘deFender’

Back in the mists of time, okay forty odd years ago, some military genius said “what our troops really need to keep moral up on the battlefield is a good guitar so they can rattle off some good licks after battle.” So, the military hierarchy got round a table and decided that a bog standard electric guitar would be far too weak to survives being thrown into the back of tanks, used as clubs when guns jammed, and generally mistreated. After hours of head scratching, cursing, doodling on paper, checking…

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