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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After dark & before the dawn
Decided to take the camera to work last night and snapped a couple of shots from the balcony… A few hours later and I made another attempt at photographing Comet Ison as it was well above the horizon yet still stuck in the murk of Appleby’s light pollution. It took a bit of squinting at the screen but now I see it I know what to look for on the other shots 😉 Finally on my way home, bleary eyed, I stopped to take a photo of the Moon as…
Read MoreDawn silliness
As I wandered round the fields with Hugo this morning I decided it would be fun to take a large panoramic 😉 Of course when I was back home stitching it together I thought it would be fun to play around with it a bit… As I was looking at this polar shot on the screen I decided that it would make a good eye… There’s a zoomable version of the panoramic here.
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Early start today which was handy as it gave me chance to take a couple of astrophotography shots as comet Ison is up and about as well 😉
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This afternoon the light on the Pennines was changing fast, and I saw a number of possible photographs appear and vanish before I had chance to pick up the camera and take a shot. I did however manage a couple of photographs 😉
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