Photos of Phones and Phonographs (occasionally)
Today was one of those days that evolves rather than being planned. As such I got to 11pm with no photo, so just before I hopped in the car to go home from a rather amusing night of comedy at Oppo – I took this shot of the University Chemistry building. It’s not bad considering I had no tripod.
… on my window.
The weather’s been horrid all day.
Grey, cold, wet, BORING!
I pulled out my guitar tonight for a bit of a noodle, having not really picked it up in about 3 years. It seems I’m missing a string.
Photoshop quicktip time – Before dropping this shot down to black and white, I split it into RGB channels, one per layer. Hid the red and blue layers, and got a much more contrasty shot. I guess this is the post-processing version of putting a filter on your lens.
I went for a walk today. It started out as a short walk through Penpole Woods on my way back from the post office.
It turned into a 4 hour excursion up to Blaize Castle. Gmaps Pedometer says that the interesting part of my route was just over 5 miles (I’ve omitted the walk from my house to the post office, and the last leg home)
I’m not a particularly slow walker, but I did stop for tea and sandwiches and spent a lot of time admiring various views!
About half way through, I came across a small pile of rocks by a bench in the woods. I couldn’t help myself.
I’ve got today and tomorrow off work, to catch up on some gardening and make it easier to get through non-white-background-week by going to interesting places to take photos.
This afternoon, I popped down to the coast to Clevedon Pier. To cover the costs of the restoration and upkeep they ask for donations. In return for a suitably sized donation they’ll put up a brass plaque.
Hidden amongst the birthdays, wedding anniversaries and memorials to deceased loved ones – I found this gem. I quite like the thought of Sarah dragging unsuspecting Andy out for a walk on the Pier one sunny summers day and letting him find this message shortly before pouncing on him!
They’re purple, and pretty. Nuff said.
I thought I’d kick off “It’s not a white background” week with a sunset. Unfortunately the sunset was less than interesting tonight, so I trotted upstairs and took a photo of a chimney pot. The post title is a nod towards an old Lenny Henry sketch about growing up with a Dudley accent.
Wikipedia seems to suggest this is called Jianzi – all I know about it is that my parents brought it back from a trip to China, and it’s a game played with your feet (youtube) – it appears to be similar to footbag/hackysack
I’ve been posting rather a lot of pictures with a white background recently. The novelty is wearing off, so this week I shall attempt to shoot a whole week of photos with real backgrounds!
My home-from-home is a little market town in West Sussex called Horsham. In the middle of the main shopping precinct is this kinetic sculpture called “Rising Universe”.
Wikipedia says:
“The fountain and consists of a large globe mounted on a pillar which fills with water pumped from below. As the sphere fills, it descends slowly over a period of approximately five minutes, after which the water is released into the pool below, it quickly rises up, and the cycle starts over again.”
I say:
“It looks like some kind of menstrual grapefruit”
I like postboxes, I think it’s the colour.
In other news, I’ve just spotted (and fixed) a problem with my zenphoto database which meant that every image added recently had an id of 0 – so changing the title of one changed the title of all of them.
Sorry if that confused anyone (what do you mean you didn’t notice?)