PhotoChallenge: Autumn
My recent “catchup” post for the photo challenge left a gap – a challenge with a theme of “Autumn”
I had the day off work today to catch up on some paperwork (car insurance/servicing/MOT and all that) but I was done by lunchtime, so I spent the afternoon out and about with my camera looking for pretty coloured trees.
I didn’t really find as much as I’d hoped for, the trees seem to be somewhat late turning this year – and the shot above has a couple of pretty obvious flaws. It really shows that I’ve not been shooting much recently!
Perhaps I’ll have another go in a couple of weeks.
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PhotoChallenge: Hobbies
The challenge description was:
Your Challenge this week is to take a photo of somebody enjoying one of their hobbies or pastimes.
The hobby could be absolutely anything, and the “somebody” could be you!
So, here’s me, building a relay set (took bloody ages to capture the whisp of smoke from the soldering iron!)
This can will be part of the system installed in a signal box at the railway called a “concentrator” – it’s a bit like a specialised manual telephone exchange which allows the signalman in the box to talk to trains stopped at signals. The special bit is that it’s got facilities to prevent the signalman accidentally talking to the wrong person (don’t want to tell the wrong train it’s safe to go!)
There’s no PCB, so all the wiring is made point-to-point with jumper wire. Very fiddly to build, but remarkably easy to debug and maintain. No semiconductors in this circuit at all either!
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Photo Challenge Catchup
I last took part in the photochallenge back in September, so I’ve got a bit of catching up to do. My only excuse really is that I work for a university, and freshers week pretty much got in the way.
So, in the absence of anything else to do this evening, I thought I’d take part in a couple of the challenges I missed.
Veggie Tales:
Banner Photos:
I haven’t taken a photo for the Autumn challenge yet, but I may see if I can do that on Wednesday – I’m taking the day off to catch up with a load of jobs, so might have time to go wandering in some woodland. I have however, taken a photo for this weeks challenge, but as that brings me up to date, it probably deserves its own post.
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9681
I’ve been catching up with some of the photography I haven’t gotten round to sorting out this month. So here’s a shot of 9681 running round at Parkend station on the Dean Forest Railway (where I help out with the telephone exchange at weekends)
I took this shot back on the 3rd Oct, and it’s taken me 21 days to get around to copying it off the memory card.
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