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Thanks for that link AE! I used to visit Southport a lot for summer days out with my mum and later when a student in L'pool I'd somethimes go for a day trip on the train. I think the last time I remember going there was when my eldest was about 3 - he's 26 now! One to add to my list of places to re-visit!
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Well, here we go again. And if you guys are getting tired of looking at snow, snow, and more snow, just imagine how we feel;)
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Eric, it looks lovely on pictures....?But there ends the appeal.....for me at least.
I don't get folks who go on ski trips. If I were forking out for a holiday I would want to be warm. If I had a magic wand I would wave it and banish winter for you.....and bring you some spring flowers and sunshine.....alas, I have no magic wand! |
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Oh, I don't make my own anymore Eric. For some reason( not sure what it is) himself prefers Holland's ( muck).
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And the steak pudding season is coming to a close here(think it must be breeding season or something - not allowed to shoot them, catch them or trap 'em)
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They are there alright.....you just can't be seen to be hunting them.....but it is alright, because if you get withdrawal symptoms you can get a chitty from your doctor and Iceland will let you buy some of the frozen variety. :)
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A mixed batch - 3 pics of the Subutteo finals in our local commercial center the other day. Yesterday evenings sunset behind my house then a selction from todays walk - quite a few folk about which was nice for a change, exchanged a bit of small-talk! :)
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Today in Pictures, a quick walk around the Millennium Baby Wood and back through St Mary's burial ground.
1. Its a bit soon for a picnic. 2. Perhaps just a bag of scratchings then. 3. As the temp gets up a bit, these will finish. 4. Assuming the All Jolson position. 5. Still there. 6. A pollened up Pussy Willow. 7. Coltsfoot hoping for some sun. 8. Oi.....where you going. 9. I've just weed picking a weed. 10. And here we are, finishing line. |
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I have a selection of photos taken this afternoon to show the development of the building work that's going on. Lots of new cement being laid and all the fittings in the barn are being completed. You can see the reflection of some curious heifers if you look in the wet cement on one pic. Final photo was taken yesterday evening of some animals at pasture. Am really pleased with that one, I have printed it today along with a selection of other photos around and about the farm. I have framed them and they are now gracing my office - it's really nice to see some of my photos in print and I have received quite a few compliments!
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Today in Pictures, some days are just not your own, and today was one of them. Another trip to the Pals centre had me mooching around Platts Lodge again. I decided I had taken to many photos recently of this area so I would try to photograph it differently today.............So I went out in a pink frock and to add a bit of danger didn't wear any knickers......which made it a tad difficult for my Tenna Lady...........but Gaffer tape sorted that.
Right, back to reality 1. Marestails again, this time with the sun shining through the stem. 2. If it's not wet you aren't doing it right. 3. Just for something different.........this photo is upside down. 4. This is the right way up.......but a little moist. 5. A few droplets just to get me on the ground again. 6. Coltsfoot, in the shadow of the apartments. 7. It took ages to get them to all swim in the same direction. 8. That's a repair bracket for the cast iron stanchions. 9. It's a favourite spot for the locals to feed the ducks, geese etc. 10. And with the final shot, my time in the sun was over......and with all that bending over my bums sunburnt. |
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A walk down the river then back along the canal.
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As to the prints -I bought the Kodak paper about 5-6 years ago and it was still sealed in it's packet in a drawer - it's just so easy to keep images stored on a computer but they look so much better printed and framed. |
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A nice warm sunny afternoon, so with camera & hound we headed off to see what we could see ..... and here we go. :)
A deer in the woods (obviously the dumbarse of the group as all his mates stayed hidden) - Wood anemone & a FMN sneaking into the shot - Sunny Bunny - Mr Majestic Magpie - Looking like Spring. |
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[QUOTE=DaveinGermany;1100970]A nice warm sunny afternoon, so with camera & hound we headed off to see what we could see ..... and here we go. :)
A deer in the woods (obviously the dumbarse of the group as all his mates stayed hidden) - Wood anemone & a FMN sneaking into the shot - Sunny Bunny - Mr Majestic Magpie - Looking like Spring.[/QUOTE Love the glimpse of that deer -you were lucky to see it. Nice one of the bunny too. Great photo of that Magpie - he has attitude. I can never get near enough to photograph them -they are one of my favourite birds. |
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Today in pictures, a very short walk.
1. This is the top end of the old Nori Brick works. 2. What is left of the site after houses were built on it. 3. Is now covered in trees. 4. Who's having a bad hair day ! 5. The Laurel are now in flower. 6. This is the drop just feet from the road when you are travelling over Whinney Hill, have a look sideways next time you go to the tip, it's just as you get to that large curve in the road. |
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An unexpected trip to a village museum this morning. I went to market in nearby Paderno Ponchielli and found this place by chance. They have a lovely collection housed in the Maestro's original home and the local man who was guide and is the curator of the collection was very knowlegable. The man in question was Amilcare Ponchielli a composer and pianist whose name was added to his village's name on the centenary of his death. The theatre in Cremona also carries his name. He was a child genius who was discovered by a local noble when he played the organ in the village church -his father had taught him all he knew and age 10 he was sent to the Conservatory in Milan. Later in his life he would become Puccini's tutor. His most famous opera is La Gioconda - photos show his first piano (bought second hand), he is the photo on the left (when the guide is present), next to Puccini. Other material relates to his works, costumes which were designed for his operas and there is a photo of his wife Teresa Brambilla in costume , she was a well-known soprano. he died aged 51 of pneumonia in 1886 -his wife out-lived him by many years and died in 1921! Last photo shows the commenmorative stamps produced in 1986 to mark his centenary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amilcare_Ponchielli
The following piece should be recogniseable as it was used by Walt Disney in Fantasia! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ILbnHhAzk |
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Nice shot and a Lovely piece of music M, is it Dance for hours?
W Disney certainly had a eye for talent :) |
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Remember those brave snowdrops trying to survive minus double-digit temps. and lots of snow? They made it.:D
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Where there's life there's hope!!!! Such lovely flowers -hope you're passed the worst and the snow is finally over -till next winter. x |
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Today in Pictures, Spring Wood as the ground wakes up, and starts to show off. In a few weeks time this area will be covered in Bluebells, Garlic, and Wood Anemones.
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I hope they last a while then maybe we could go to see some together Dave. I've just booked to come over on April 25th - will PM you :) |
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A mixed selection - the first three are of a rather kitch looking house front in the village I visited yesterday (just round the corner from the musem). A local hunting fanatic and his son created this all by hand -the wood carving and hunting scenes are exquisite seen close up. Have left the 1st pic on high resolution so you can zoom in and see! The next 7 are from a very windy walk into Castelverde this morning while I waited for the tyres changing on the car. The chap in the allotment was very chatty and he has a great scarecrow with a sunflower head which you can just about see. He was planting out his courgettes and told me about the lilac, which is the sad remainder of a devastated plant which was lovely this time last year and covered about 20 feet of railings. Council work on paving has damaged the roots :( You can now see the junk beyond the railings which used to be hidden by the lilac. Some nice blossom and spring greenery along the cycle path and a few humble daisies among the remains of last years dead leaves and this years catkins which were being blown down in the high winds. The shoot I have photographed in number 7 is wild hops. I picked a nice bunch of these the other day and made risotto using them. They are known here as poor-man's asparagus and everyone goes out picking them at this time of year, they are also nice in an omelette.
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Today in Pictures, too many things to do today to get immersed in to the world of photography, so just a few on my knees. (Mercer Park)
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Just for a change, we went along the canal.
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Wonderful photos from today mobertol, davemac and gpick. Thank you!
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Not many today, weather was a bit rubbish.
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Today in Pictures, into the Valley of Stone to visit Troy Quarry, Not somewhere I knew about, I was pointed to it on Hyndburn Chat. So into the unknown today, even though I have visited other quarries in the area.
1. Given a choice of two paths, I chose the least muddy, and that was muddy enough. 2. Looking back down the path we came up, Musbury Heights in the distance. 3. The destination for today, Troy Quarry. 4. Looking in the direction of the turbines, the tips are vanishing in the mist. 5. I couldn't resist a closer look. 6. At this point I am putting the willies up myself. don't look down, don't look down, don't look down. 7. Yes, I have decided its a long way down. 8. Time to lose a bit of height. 9. Down in the quarry, I'm not as dizzy down here. 10.Time to wash two very dirty and stinky dogs before getting back in the car. |
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After seeing my video of photospheres and you have seen my tiny planet pics that are created from the photospherers.... this video has majorly impressed me. What do you think? This 360° Video Shot With 6 GoPro Cameras Will Blow Your Mind
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Today in Pictures, it was a day of contrasts, sunny bits and rainy bits, I thought I had gone out in a sunny bit, but it turned to a very wet bit pretty rapidly.
1. This rain is turning things very green. 2. The green bits here are a carpet of bluebells, no flowers yet. 3. Top end of Hameldon woods, with Hapton Quarry in the distance. 4. It must be damp around here there is a carpet of moss. 5. & 6. a couple of wet bits. 7. 8. & 9. new leaves in the rain. |
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Are we up for some bum sniffing or what?
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My day yesterday......
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We are here in Llandudno for the week.....and I took a few pics yesterday, but my internet connection is intermittent so I cannot upload any more just now.
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This fellow visited our feeder last week: a Pileated Woodpecker. They make a terrific racket when pecking at the neighbouring trees. Sorry not to be able to get a better shot, but he was very wary. I had to shoot this through the window glass. The slightest movement from me, and he was off!
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Yesterday was a perfect spring Sunday - had a nice long walk after a barbq with friends. I didn't realise how sunny it was and ended up a pretty shade of pink. A series of photos showing who was about and what they were doing round-abouts where I live.
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Llandudno today has been wet....poured down until lunch time.....but then the sunshine broke through and the day was lovely...very springlike.
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Today in Pictures, another moist experience, but a relatively clean one, mooching around Memorial Park.
1.The war memorial with Spring blooms. 2. A naturalised Hyacinth, and a couple of wet knees. 3. Periwinkle......I like that name, as it contains the word............Peri. 4. A moist Mahonia. (or whatever the name is now, it was re-classified I think). 5. Holly got wet. 6. The naturalised bit of the Park. 7. The ornamental cherries are about to burst into colour. 8. Looking across to Pendle Hill.......just. 9. Last shot of the Park before heading home. 10. I stopped on the way home, this is possible the most floral verge in the borough. |
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I was on the pier just taking a shot of the beach.......this pic was cropped out of a bigger picture. We are having a sedate time. Nothing strenuous. Might take a bus ride to West beach later today.....so there should be more pics. |
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Pesky wind turbines on the horizon.
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Dipping the toes in the briny.
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Here`s mine for today from around the midlands this morning and walking the dogs this evening.
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Don't know, there was a sign warning of entering a quarry. I wondered if it might be a bunker where they set off explosives, but that's just an un-educated guess.
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Today in Pictures, whilst cogitating on this weeks competition theme I sort of had a moment of realisation. I started my working life in Oak Hill Park as an apprentice gardener, and 46 or so years later I am going back photographing the plants I used to cultivate all those years ago. Its so obvious what I was doing, but didn't realise it.
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Just messing about with a glow stick :D
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We(the children and I) walked it down to West Beach this afternoon.
Spindles said I had walked his legs off(and yes, his jeans do look longer). I took a few pics but I will only upload one. I hope you like it. |
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Looks like you had your old box brownie with you. Great pic
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I have had time to mess around with the pics I have taken. I get almost as much pleasure out of messing with the pics as I do in taking them. Frequently when I take a shot I have ideas of how I want my shot to look. Here is another pic. |
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