This morning I got my camera gear ready for the ISS pass which I was cleverly notified of via Twitter, gone are the days of trying to work out when objects will be visible in the night sky, I just wait for the tweet 😉 Armed with the relevant information, wrapped in a couple of layers to ward off the cold winds which had developed over night I stepped outside around 0530hrs to get ready. The cloud was fairly high towards the East and was also flitting around the Moon…
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New bit
I’ve added a new page to the site, it contains some of my favourite books, the ones I’d rather not be without if I can help it 😉 I shall add more as time allows, but I get bored copy pasting links so I’ll add them in batches 🙂
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Yesterday we had a drive out West, we’d hoped for some interesting cloud/light combinations but instead it was all flat grey on the way through. Driving back the light was fading but I didn’t want to not take a photograph and so I settled for this view, I did not have a tripod with me and the light wasn’t brilliant so I rested the camera on the car roof 😉 This morning the cloud looked like it was going to cover the entire sky after looking fairly promising early on,…
Read MoreIn 1976….
….Blue Öyster Cult sang a jolly little ditty (Don’t Fear) The Reaper, well, I don’t 😉 I do fear however fear the new sketchbook that arrived yesterday. Strange thing to fear really a sketchbook, but this is the A3 Moleskine folio sketchbook and I just know the first thing I attempt in it will be dire. Perhaps I should put it on a shelf for a while and let the fear and nerves subside – or maybe I should grab a pencil and attack it until it submits 😉 On…
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A couple of images from our little World, well it feels like a little World as the fog has been quite low for a few days meaning you couldn’t see very far at all. Thankfully the fog has cleared along with the frost this afternoon.
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