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North Inch Perth: Lunchtime, Tues Nov 30th

Winter has most definitely started and the the weather has been weird and wonderful with heavy snow, freezing temperatures and thunder and lightning. Getting to work has been exciting and at one point had a rather scary bus journey where we got stuck behind the gritter/ plough which was stuck behind 2 other buses. Have walked there and back since then, cold but my legs are getting a great work out! But I was off today and for short while the sun managed to squeeze a few rays through the falling snow and I rushed out with the camera to see what I could get.

While standing under the old bridge talking to my polar bear on the phone and sheltering from a heavy snow fall, I changed the camera back to black and white, only put back into colour for the fireworks and illuminations which just wouldn’t of worked as well in mono. I squeezed off a few shots, see multi-tasking with camera in one hand and phone to ear with other as forgot hands free, then remembered I was still on manual focus and hence why things a little blurry, so switched back to auto. Once the snow slowed and the bear had got off the phone I ventured down to the North Inch Park which was just a haze of whiteness, the path was trodden by humans and the occasional animal and surprisingly easy to tread, unlike ones in city that had been cleared and were now just icy or slushy. The sun made a brief appearance and I got a few good shots of the monument and the snow in general, but then the light went away again and the snow came back so I headed home. It may have been a brief trip out into the beautiful winters day but it was worth it and once home I even managed to get a nice shot of the snowy rooftops from the back window.

North Inch Parklands covered in whiteness

East London, 31/8-2/9 2010

The Sun Slidding Down Behind The Olympic Site

The time had come to visit my sister and her family in London again. So it was on to the 6 hour train journey on a busy train where I had a sandwich and plum drama, leaving myself little to eat, my walkman phone (cheap in the meantime one after the last took a leap down a drain) decided it only wanted to play music for 20 mins before going all weird and when I got on some woman was asleep in my booked seat! All in all not the best journey. However my sister meet me at kings cross with her beautiful girls and guided me back through the underground maze to her flat in east London. Where we played with pearl, stitch, McMickey and McMinne until the girls dad traumatised them with a surprise McMickey attack. After the girls had eaten, well thrown around, their dinner and they’d had their baths, the sun set over the Olympic site with a flash of colour and bringing beauty to the overly huamised area. I may detest London but it does have its moments. Natural beauty sliding down behind industrial construction. Leaning out the window on my tiptoes and balancing the camera on the frame I squeezed off a few shots with a a low ISO and not too low a shutter speed so I wouldn’t flood sensor with light and lose the colour in the sky, there’s always more light at twilight than the naked eye sees.

The next day we had a trip to Valentines park after Georgie had tried to sneak out the door in her dads work bag. We had a lovely and not too expensive lunch there and enjoyed the sunshine in the haven of the lovely old mansion grounds. We all played in the shade of a tree and I let my sister take control of the camera and although she was terrified of dropping it, she didn’t do too bad at all. In order to let the girls sleep a while we wandered around the park, which is small but enjoyable and had a wee look in the mansion and wondered at how there were different rooms for different times of day, to go with the different outfits I assume. If I had that there would be a large part of the day I would have to stay in the bathroom, wonder if it is better to make that the morning room as the afternoon one? Then it was back on the dirty tubes with all the rude people and through the busy stations with lifts not working so had to lift the double buggy up the stairs. God knows what you’re meant to do if you’re in a wheelchair! Then more photo fun at home with the girls, more throwing food around and smiling and laughing at each other and climbing and crawling or belly dragging and standing and bouncing. All in all a good day. By the end of it we were all shattered even McMickey who Tabby was tentatively touching again. So just after 10 I settled down to the lights of the city spreading out to forever over the horizon and worried about how Errols paw was to be fixed and if he could stay together until Continue reading →

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