Merry Easter

 

 

I've also included a sensible photo of myself in the interests of balance.

Great Ball Of Fire

 

 

Just fired up my old plasma ball - it still works after 15 odd years.

Cheriton Light Show

Storm Imogen

 

 

 

 

 

While it was very windy but dry and bright, I took myself down to Folkestone sands with the camera during a spring high tide at 10.20 am.

The Blue Hour

I took this with the Lumix compact while waited for the nacreous clouds to appear (which never did).

Solar Flare

 

 

While I was waiting for nacreous clouds to form this morning, I did a bit of light painting.

PS: Those clouds never did appear.

Three Of A Kind

 

 

 

 

 

Thought I'd try and get back into my experimental indoors photography using my trusty D7000 and kit lens - and here it is called "Three Of A Kind".

No photoshop type layering was involved in this, this is just a single long exposure in a dark room and a spare flash gun was set off three times to pick myself out as I changed position. The only thing I've done to this photo was to greyscale it.

It has a bit of Monique Froese (Edgar Froese's wife) influence about it.

That Time Of The Year

Post Christmas Bow

 

 

As a passing shower left this in it's wake.

Dec Sunrise

 

 

Had better luck with a decent coloured sunrise this morning. Unfortunately I wasn't prepared for it as this was taken through my bathroom window.

Winter Dawn

 

 

 

 

At Folkestone harbour this morning. I was hoping to capture some magnificent dawnbreak colours but that part didn't come off so I had to improvise. 

Computer Bug

 

 

 

 

 

My sister made this insect objet d'art using old computer bits and then I was let loose on it with my D7000.

Sun Halos

 

 

 

Has been a good day for sun optics thanks to sunlight refracting in cirrus cloud. One is a circumzenithal arc and the other was a sundog (or mock sun) looking like a comet streaking through the air.

Road To Nowhere

 

 

 

For now as the cobbled section of a road just around the corner of my house is being taken up and then tarmacked over. Soon it'll be a two way system after having been one way for decades.

Its That Time Of The Year

 

 

"The media is gonna love this one . . . ".

A Cyber Attack

 

 

That moment when the iPad's Safari browser had crashed for the last time.

Mid-Autumn Sunset

 

 

Not a bad start to Autumn "proper" since we're now in GMT. The sun now sets to my south west when viewed from my west-facing hobby room instead of the more built up north west quarter.

Mini World

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Went to a local model railway exhibition today.

Some More Night Time Fun

 

 

Had a proper go at doing a star trail. The weather was fine, calm and clear, I now fully understood the camera settings needed for the shot but this time I had to contend with a big bright full moon which almost drowned out the stars.
  I also had a go at taking a long exposure zoom.

Night Time Fun

Tried to have another go at bagging that money star trail shot, but a passing shower had scuppered things. So, instead I did some more normal night time photography.