January In The Garden (365: 8) – 14 January and warm enough to sit in the garden. 4 pictures
Morning Shower (365: 3) – The camera only has a 10-second self-timer, so I had to take a load of test shots the day before so that I could get the shot right on the day. I have to get to work, so time is tight.
Mirror Ball – I took this picture of one of the mirror balls I used to construct the garden mobile when I was testing my new Fuji Finepix camera. The colours of the Virginia Creeper in the background are wonderful. One-minute read, 3 pictures
Fawley Refinery, taken from (mid) Southampton Water. One of the early photographs I took when I bought my first digital camera. 3 pictures
Smoke, No Mirrors – Reprise – One of the early photographs I took when I bought my first digital camera.
Sailing on the River Thurne, Norfolk Broads. This could be August 1999. It could be 2000, or later…
Falcon – Ink Drawing. Falcon was an abandoned lifeboat conversion. She later broke up. Langstone Harbour – Portsmouth.
Erica Felicia – Ink Drawing.
The Cheesewring (Cornwall, UK) – Ink Drawing.
Bennett, Goring, Allman – I’m pretty sure this was the year Bob and Ann turned up unexpectedly.
Robert’s ‘Official’ Christening Picture.
Old cuttings of my father – I’ve had these pictures for years I thought it’s about time I posted them. +1
A friend posted a mnemonic on Facebook for the sequence of the royal houses of England in chronological order. It reminded me of one my uncle taught me, which in turn reminded me of a couple I learned at school. Two-minute read, 2 pictures
Hadham Hall School, October 1968 – Today (March 11, 2021), spurred on by an email I recently received from another ‘old boy,’ I did a quick stitching job on the pictures. Unfortunately, neither Photoshop nor Lightroom’s auto stitch could merge the images, so I ended up doing so by hand. As the image is low res, and time is short, that was the extent of my repairs to the photograph.
They Built Their Own Yacht – Packed away in a box under the bed I found this newspaper cutting from 1960. It tells the story of how my father and a work colleague built their own yacht. I’ve also written about some of my early sailing experiences, in particular a couple of attempts at drowning myself. Five-minute read, 5 pictures
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