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…
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Dawn 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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I decided to take a couple of ‘conker’ photographs today, and as I was playing around with the camera I wondered where the name conker originated… Conkers (n.) “child’s game played with horse chestnuts,” originally with snail shells, 1847, probably a variant of conquer. The goal was to break the other player’s item by hitting it with yours. Conquer (v.) c.1200, cunquearen, from Old French conquerre “conquer, defeat, vanquish,” from Vulgar Latin *conquaerere (for Latin conquirere) “to search for, procure by effort, win,” from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-),…
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