Lots of running around at the moment but always the chance for a bit of fun, though the dog seems a bit miffed by the purpose of it all. That said there seems to be a pretty good balance of the components that go to make this one up. I only noticed the cormorant after the shot – a momentary lapse there – but it’s worked out pretty well.

Happy New Year Everyone!! Hope you all had a great Christmas and were warm, well fed and entertained throughout. Well, As you may have noticed there’s been a bit of a change around here. The website has had a (rather premature one might suggest given current conditions around the UK) spring clean. The upshot is it should be much easier to find things in the site, as well as viewing across browser platforms (including mobile devices) and from now on images will be sightly larger so you get to enjoy them that much more. Have a poke around and if you see something broken just get in touch and I’ll fix it soon as I can.

As I write much of the UK is under a thick blanket of snow, though inevitably this has crippled pretty much the entire country. Incapable of preparing for adverse conditions people continue to slide amusingly down steep hills behind their steering wheels vainly struggling to get to work. Just take the day off people, it’s so much easier! I headed out with the dog who found the white stuff great fun to play around in! Here’s to the new year and onwards, Keep an eye out for my photographic review of 2009 in the next post or two…

 

Mystery solved

Well, it’s not sunrise (see earlier post) but applying the same principles and adding a little guess-work (in terms of timing) its possible to judge the best angle to catch the best light of sunset. In this case I was around 135 degrees to the sun (thats a bit further round than completely side-on) and as you can see I was also given a beautiful cloud formation without which the scene would have been rather uninteresting I believe. So, there’s being prepared and there’s adapting to what’s occuring around you to take advantage of it…I even spied an early poppy!!