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We’ve been getting some fantastic sunsets lately, which have given me a great chance to play with my new camera. Can’t say that I have exactly mastered it as yet, but nature has been doing most of the hard work for me.
It’s great just to be able to walk over to the beach with a camera when you see sites like these on your way home from work.
Comments(0) Accidentally stumbled across this site the other day. Weird but brilliant! Now if I can just get the “My Chicken’s gone to heaven” song out of my head…
http://www.mailorderchickens.com
Comments(1) Well, I got the new camera that I have been hoping for, the Panasonic FZ30 Lumix.
I basically wanted a big zoom lens and image stabilisation for under £400, and the Panasonic FZ30 was one of the few digital cameras to offer those features. I had already had a play with David’s FZ30, so decided to take the plunge and order one.
Pretty impressed so far. There is definite issue with noise in low light, but this doesn’t really have a great impact on most of the photography that I do. The Lumix is very intuitive to use (something I think is important for trying to capture the action) and the performance is pretty impressive.
It’s too early to say much more about the FZ30 at the moment, but I’ll try to add some more info about how I am getting on with it soon.
Comments(0) As part of my birthday celebrations & visit “up north” to my sister, we went to Xscape at Castleford this weekend.
Xscape is sort of a cross between a shopping centre and an indoor extreme sports centre. The main attraction is a massive indoor real snow slope, although there is also a skate park, ice-climbing wall, climbing wall and a few other bits.
Having the nephews with us we opted for tobogganing on the indoor slope. Despite looking like utter goons thanks to the compulsory crash-helmets it was a great laugh. Well recommended.
Unfortunately some jobs-worth stopped me taking pictures inside (so I’ve borrowed one of another site). Apparently I needed a signed form, but getting this would have taken most of our allotted time, so no photos this time.
http://www.xscape.co.uk
Comments(0) Things have been busy of late, but I finally got around to throwing some more content up on this site today.
I had a lot of photos kicking around that I had promised to share with various people, so I have uploaded these. I’ve backdated everything to whenever the pictures were taken so things might seem to be in a strange order.
I was also hoping to get time to add comment functionality to the images and items, but time is moving on and I still have a huge list of chores to do. This is on the way though.
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Decided to make the most of the bright, cold day to blow out the cobwebs and take a walk up the Hayling Billy coastal trail today.
The trail follows the path of the old railway line running up the western side of Hayling Island. The trail starts at the old station in West Town and finishes at the bridge (or the other way around, depending on which direction you are heading), a distance of just over 3 miles each way.
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Heading home this weekend we decided to take a break from the traffic and get some fresh air before we got back to the island, so took a quick walk around Portchester castle.
My inner geek has always drawn me to castles, and Portchester is quite a nice example.
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High tides and strong winds combined today to cause flooding all over the eastern end of Hayling.
Having got a call to say that there “was a river running down our road” I popped home with the camera to see what all the fuss was about and found out that our road had actually become a river.
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As part of the Trafalgar 200 anniversary events at Portsmouth historic dockyard a Rope’s End Theatre Company, who we know several members of, put on some street theatre this weekend.
The play, Black Eyed Susan, was compressed to about 25 minutes and performed near the busy main entrance to the dockyard. I have to confess that street theatre is not something that I would usually imagine myself standing in the cold to watch (unless maybe I was drunk and in the mood to heckle), but it was really quite entertaining.
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Well, Google PageRank and Backlinks have updated and I can’t help think that either something is not quite right, or Google have decided to put the knife in with one of their big rivals.
MSN.com is currently showing as having a PageRank of 2 !