Many moons ago (okay, three decades maybe) I remember sitting at my desk trying to recreate Thror’s* Map, several hours later I’d created a crumpled piece of paper covered in ink which looked, if you squinted quite a bit something like a map. It was quickly filed in the relevant section of the waste paper basket. A few years later and I was at a different desk but my task was the same, to recreate the map so that it looked just as I imagined it to be when reading…
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Stars, Planets, and a bit of Aurora
I set off to work a few minutes early this morning so I could take a couple of photographs. I’d been reading reports of the aurora borealis when I woke and decided to try and spot some (I’d have stayed up to watch it during the night but I need my beauty sleep before a long day at work ;-)). The aurora wasn’t really visible to the naked eye when I got to the car park, though every now and then I caught a glimpse. Venus however looked really bright…
Read MoreStuck in traffic
Driving to work this morning and the traffic was slow going (okay, it was some elderly gent driving up the middle of the road at 20MPH but it was painful ;-)). So I decided to pause at the side of the road for a moment and look at the scenery, I’m pleased I did as the early morning light was just catching Wild Boar Fell. A bit further on I noticed some misty patches and paused again for another photo. After work I trundled towards home, the traffic was proving…
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I was thinking of taking a few cloud reference images, then I got a little carried away…
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I picked up this leaf as I liked its colour, but ended up liking how it curved as it dried.
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