Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head

After an extended dry spell the rain has now made an unwelcome return to the south of England. And some said that we were going to have an Indian summer!!

Still, it makes for some interesting raindrop snaps out in the back garden.

Concrete Curry

I Was invited along with a load of others from work to a house warming with a difference yesterday. We were lured with the promise of a free curry and lashings of beer but first we had to move several tonnes of concrete in to a huge skip.

I turned up and with 2 others set to work on filling the skip. For a while it didn't seem as though the pile of concrete was getting any smaller but after an hour or so many others arrived and we soon made light work of it.

Once the manual labour was completed we were treated to a great curry and enough rice to feed a small African nation! The beer and wine then continued to flow in to the small hours and a really good evening was had by all.

I woke up this morning remembering what it feels like to do a lot of heavy lifting which I haven't done since the concrete removal efforts in my back garden last summer.

Digital Hands

Going through some old boxes the other week I came across some old pen and ink drawings that I did when I was back at school.

I took some snaps of them and then had the idea to add a digital touch to colourise them a little.

Here is the original


After some colour was added - I quite like the whole pop art look


After playing with layers and blend modes here in the finished piece with some subtle colouring.

Don't Let the Sun go Down on Me

Haven't taken many photos recently but still working through the backlog...

One evening a few weeks ago I took the camera out for some exercise and walked up to the top of Laverstock Downs. I grew up in the village and spent many a teenage evening up there with friends watching the world go by and engaging in various teenage antics that our parents would not have agreed with!

Once I was up there the sun was starting to set and I thought I'd capture a few shots in both infrared and colour.







I prefer sunsets where there are a few clouds about so that was a perfect evening.

Don't Lose Your Head

More fun with merging images...



[Edit: Back of t-shirt neck added - 18/09/07]

Lofty Wasps

Had the day off work today and spent a fair bit of it installing lighting and boarding out the loft using the newly acquired loft hatch that I got put in the other week - The old hatch was barely big enough to fit through let alone fit all the boxes that I want to store up there to clear out some clutter.

Once the lighting was installed it was easy to see the wasp nest that I got terminated last year.



I noticed that there are around 5 much smaller nests (one can be seen to the left of the big one) dotted throughout the loft space. Apparently these are where the queen has told all her blokes to build the nest and then once work has started she changes her mind - typically woman then!!! You learn something new every day!

Eye See You!

Got a bit of a backlog of photos to go through at the moment and today came across one of my macros of the human eye...well, my eye to be precise.

I've seen loads of good examples on the web and flickr but they are a lot harder to do than I thought. After several failed attempts I managed to snap this one.



You can see the reflection of the lamp in the pupil which I was trying to avoid but I've only tried these at night & I'd imagine you can get better results using natural light so I'll give that a go. Be sure to keep your 'eye' on the blog for future posts !!