Wednesday, 10 May 2017

Afternoon Siesta . . .



. . . for Jet as the sun beams into my famed west-facing hobby room.

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Training Session




A couple more train sets from my slowly growing railway model collection.

Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Best Of Folkestone




Or almost as the building in the top photo is still under construction (an old arcade place being rebuilt into as a conference place).

Both were taken hand held on a Go Pro then tweaked on the PC.

Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Harbour Area








Went for a quiet but chilly stroll at around Folkestone harbour today, where parts of it are still under construction as part of the regeneration plan.

Monday, 3 April 2017

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Bedtime Story For Jet.



"It was a dark and stormy night, the door slowly creaked open and a panting sound could be heard . . . and then suddenly there was a loud "WOOF! . . . ".

Sunday, 26 March 2017

Sun Arch



Folkestone's War Memorial on a fine sunny morning.

Saturday, 18 March 2017

Class 03

 
 


Just received this BR class 03 shunter in the post, so thought I'd take a quick shot of it.

EDIT: Now with horn added and a driver.

Friday, 24 February 2017

Night Time



Actually, my ol' street does look rather cool at night time. That bright looking dot is Venus.

Tuesday, 7 February 2017

Moon Halo.



Taken from the relative safety of my front garden using a GoPro.

Saturday, 4 February 2017

Monday, 30 January 2017

Jet



Coming up to 3 years old, this dude is turning out to be a well behaved indoors-only puss. Occasionally he does like to let me know who is the boss, but he is a good boy, really.

Moody Selfie



Yesterday evening, I had everything all set up to take a still life photo of fruits using my two flash guns - only to find one flash gun wasn't working. The batteries inside not only ran out but leaked, so after I took that flash gun apart and cleaned out all the gun and got it working again, I then had to change the battery on the remote sender.
  It was a bit of a faff, and by the time I got everything working again, it had gone past midnight so I packed everything up (it took so long that the fruits in question went mouldy!). However, I did manage to take this last minute quick test photo using the trusty Nikon D40.

So let this be a lesson to myself, never leave AA-type alkaline batteries inside devices for too long.

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Murkiness At Folkestone

 
 


A real pea souper this evening as we go through a chilly spell. The mist then retreated out to the nearby sea (as I live at a coastal town) the following day, which made things look rather hazy and lazy for a time.

Monday, 2 January 2017

Moon Shine

 
As sunlight bounce off the Antarctica snow cover onto the dark side of the moon.

And a random night time photo of ASDA as viewed from my famed west-facing hobby room window.

Thursday, 22 December 2016

Cathedrals Express

 
 
 
A Braunton class steam loco was seen hauling the Cathedrals Express through Folkestone on this fine December's day.

Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Spooky

 
 
When I wake up every morning, I see this Transformer-like creature looming over me in my bedroom.

I get spooked out by a shadow of my bedside lamp from the alarm clock's flashing LED light every time. I need to get a nicer looking lamp.

Wednesday, 14 December 2016

Winter Moon

 
 
As viewed from mother's east-facing bedroom window.

Thursday, 8 December 2016

Another December Sunrise

 
 
But this time via an open toilet window.

Thursday, 1 December 2016

December Sunrise

 
 
 
 
Wanted to capture the hues associated with a "cold" sunrise. A Nikon D40 was used but forgot to bring the tripod with me so had to improvise by using a plant of wood.