Dog scooter and video
Following on from the dog sledding antics in Norway we managed to find the sport of dog scootering. Basically tying your dog to the front of an overgrown child’s scooter. It’s brilliant. I’ve also started doing a few videos with some editing. First attempt below. All shot with a GoPro Hero2 on a magic arm [...]
Shooting hoops with Flora
It’s been a beautiful day here, and we thought we’d give Flora a run around with the jumps, hoop and weave poles in the garden. Then we got the camera and reflectors out. And then the fun began. She’s usually moving so quickly through the jumps and hoop in particular that you don’t see a [...]
Dog sledding
We also had a crack at dog sledding at the Vilmarkssenter near Tromso. We opted for a full day ‘expedition’ that we shared with a Swiss couple who live in Stockholm. Our guide, Ishtar, selected the dogs for us and we harnessed them to the sleds. We each had a sled to drive and a [...]
Snow in Norway
Instalment two of the photos from Norway. This contains a variety of pictures of snow! Plenty of snow about. Good fun to play in. Penelope and I tried cross country skiing and snow shoeing for the first time. It was great fun, if hard work!
Norway lights
Penelope and I have just got back from a week in northern Norway. This is the first of a few posts with photos from the trip. We went to see the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), so that’s where we start. Photos taken by Penelope and me using our Olympus Pens (EP2 and EP3) and [...]
Holkham beach
Penelope, Flora and I are up in Norfolk for a long weekend with Tommy, Rich and Beetle. The weather has been pretty good and we had a great walk out on Holkham beach. Below are a few pictures from the walk. Great to take pictures of a dog that isn’t entirely black!
Camel Trail – Camera on a bike
While in Cornwall, Penelope and I thought we would take Flora for her first bike ride on the Camel Trail. It’s a 5 mile stretch of old railway line that is now a cycle path/bridleway. Perfect as there are no cars. Flora was great. I took the opportunity to strap the camera to the bike [...]
Cornish sunsets
A few snaps from the beaches at Pentire Point and Trevose Point. While the weather wasn’t that great in general we did get a couple of nice evenings. Time to break out the silhouettes! Penelope took the shot with me in it and the odd self timer picture. Great light in the main and Flora [...]
Kestrel in the garden
I haven’t posted in a while so I’ve got some catching up to do. Here are three pictures I captured of a kestrel in the back garden. I was playing frisbee with Flora and Keith, as I call him, landed on the fence and then dropped into the garden. Keith kindly waited while I went [...]
Flora Studio
It was a slow weekend last weekend. P and I had a nice quiet time at home. I decided to try to take some ‘studio’ photos of Flora, quite a challenge I can assure you. I got a couple of white sheets to act as a backdrop and set up a couple of remote flashes [...]
Brant Fell Sunset and Sunrise
It’s been a fabulous week in the Lakes, and the weather has really played it’s part. Who’d have thought that there wouldn’t be a drop of rain in 11 days (and counting). Unfortunately it meant we could completely strip, repair and repaint the windows (boo hiss). I did manage to get out late evening on [...]
Moody London
Penelope and I went to London on Saturday with the intention of just wandering round and taking pictures. Penelope had the idea of picking themes to take pictures of and we started out focusing on ‘circles’ and ‘letters’. I had a play with the settings on my E5, including the in camera processing settings. It [...]
Red sky at night…
…shepherds’ delight. Red sky in morning…. barn on fire. So they say. Penelope coerced me into going out for a walk despite the 18 mile cycle home. She mentioned that there was some sort of dust cloud coming over from the Sahara that promised a spectacular sunset. 20 minutes later, armed with cameras and a [...]
Fisheye Frenzy
Penelope and I have just got back from skiing with the Ducketts (Jen, Simon and Natalie) and Madame X (Jen’s mum). We had a great time, and some pretty good conditions for skiing and for a few pictures. I decided to take my fisheye lens along to see what could be done with it. We [...]
Composite of Flora
Penelope and I set up a series of shots of Flora when we went to Norfolk last November. All shot from the same point, with a very wide angle lens. I just got round to putting the image together. I extracted Flora and the hoop she was chasing and composited them all onto a single [...]
Raptor Foundation
I went over to the Raptor Foundation in St Ives last weekend. I thought it would be a good opportunity to practice taking pictures of birds in flight. In reality the birds were so close it wasn’t great practice. It was brilliant to see them in action though. They are so majestic. Anyway, here are [...]
The many shapes of Flora
A few of the more amusing shots from Sunday’s test. It’s amazing what poses you can capture with a reasonably high frame and a decent sized memory card.
High speed Flora
Penelope and I took advantage of some breaks in the cloud to go out and test a camera (Nikon D300s) against my Olympus. We were looking for a high speed subject to test the focus in particular. Flora seemed like the obvious choice. Anyway, it was great fun, and Flora was pretty tired afterwards. A [...]
Splendid Panoramas
A long break between posts. While out in Patagonia, Penelope and I took a few panoramas. I finally got around to stitching them all together. I think my favourite is the Laguna de los Tres one. Penelope took the original images. The lake was really still. As soon as she finished the wind picked up [...]
Selection of pictures from Patagonia
Finally got around to going through the several thousand pictures we brought back from South America. Just click on the image below to go to the gallery. There is a link to the gallery below. Enjoy.
El Fin Del Mundo
Found another chance to catch up on posts, this time from our tent at Campamento Poincenot in the shadow of Monte Fitzroy. Our southernmost destination was Ushuaia. They don’t let you forget it either. Everything is “El Fin Del Mundo”. We had hot chocolate EFDM. Visited the national park EFDM. We had wine EFDM. for [...]
Today’s word of the day is “ice”
Today’s word of the day is “ice”. And lots of it. Mainly in the form of the Glacier Grey. Following a relatively good night’s sleep at the Refugio grey we awoke to light snow and reasonably strong winds, by our uk standards at any rate. We decided to head up towards the glacier a few [...]
W for Wind and Wain(?)
The weather got even on the next day. Howling winds and rain. Not pleasant. We were due to carry all our kit to the Campamento Italiano about six hours walk from the Ecocamp, not an appealing prospect. This being our honeymoon we thought we’d go to plan B, or perhaps C, or D. Anyway, we [...]
Torres Del Paine
In case you hadn’t guessed, we’ve got to an Internet connection hence the flood of posts. We arrived late on the 26th at Ecocamp which is a strange mix of camping and a hostel. Pretty luxurious to be fair, at least our ‘suite’ was. A large dome with a double bedroom and an en suite [...]