Still Still Waiting

..and another…

Still waiting

… while we are waiting for my camera to arrive, here’s another nice picture…

Winter Skies

You do get some nice skies this time of year.

Sunrise

Now that’s what I call a sunrise..

Orchids

The orchids in our kitchen are doing really well this year.

Fun with Fish Eyes

So I took the Fish Eye Lens for a walk. The hard bit is making sure that you don’t end up with your feet in the picture….

Autumn Pictures

I took one of my old camera lenses for a walk today. It has the useful property of producing rather nice amounts of blur.

Walk Picture

Went for a walk today and took this picture. Which was rather nice.

A walk in the woods

One of the great things about living where we do is that five minute walk can get you this view.

Day out in Dalby Forest

Today we actually went somewhere other than upstairs. We went to Dalby Forest. This is one of my favourite places in the whole wide world and today it was on fine form. Plenty of room for social distancing and facilities that were the cleanest I’ve ever seen them. We had a smashing time. I took a lens that I got just before lockdown that I’ve been waiting to play with for ages. The weather was kind to us, with interesting clouds in the sky and I’m very happy with the way the pictures came out.

I’m starting to like the outdoors again….

Quiet Day

Had a fairly quiet day today. Here’s a picture of a rose.

Garden pic

We’ve got one of these growing in the garden. I’m not sure what make of flower it is, but it does look rather nice.

Colourful Boxes

Today’s challenge was to “find something colourful”. I’m quite proud of my entry…

Printing Trains

Chris likes trains. So it seemed appropriate to make him a birthday card with a picture of a train on it. I found this picture amongst a bunch that I took in Haworth nearly ten years ago.

I tried to print it onto thin card with my lovely HP laser printer. It did not go well. Lots of black toner everywhere. I really thought I’d broken the printer.

Fortunately a few tests confirmed that all was well. The printer was just having trouble with the card stock I was using. Turns out that the answer was to do just what you should do. Tell the printer you are using a different kind of paper. When I selected “thin card” it worked a treat. It runs the printer more slowly so that the toner has more time to heat up the card and fuse the toner to it.

Bridge Walk

Went for a walk to the Humber Bridge today. We had pretty much all the seasons in around fifteen minutes. But I did manage to take some pictures.

Deep Picture

I’ve taken many pictures of The Deep in Hull. Here’s another one.

Happy New Year from Hornsea

Another family tradition is a trip to Hornsea on New Year’s Day. And a bacon buttie at the Floral Hall.

I’m happy to report that these passed off well again this year. And I took the proper camera.

Happy New Year to both my readers.

Sunrise at Radio Humberside

I was at Radio Humberside bright and early this morning to review the newspapers. This was great fun, and enlivened by an awesome sunrise right outside. I pressed my phone up against the glass to try and get a picture and got the image you can see above. The reflections are all caused by the second layer of double glazing that they need for sound proofing. At the time I took the picture I was a bit upset by all the reflections but having thought about it I think they add quite a lot of atmosphere to the shot.

Visit Hessle foreshore

Yesterday we drove over to the Humber Bridge County park and had a marvellous work though the trees and down to Hessle Foreshore. It still amazes me that we have lived in Hull all these years and only started going to this splendid place quite recently. It was a lovely afternoon and the sunlight across the estuary was very pretty. We grabbed a coffee at The Humber Park and then sat on the terrace watching the sun go down over the sea. Well worth the trip.

Good Morning Hull

You can say what you like about going up town first thing in the morning to review the newspapers for BBC Radio Humberside, but it does mean that you can be around to get some nice pictures.