Lightbox Fun

Some pictures courtesy of the homemade light box.

Intel Inside


My Mate Jack!


Laser

The Lions (plus other animals) of Longleat

A month or so a go (still working on that backlog of pics!) a few friends and I decided to go to out for the day to Longleat. Unfortunately the weather was pretty poor but still managed to get a few shots of the various animals from the car as we were driving round.

Mrs Lion



Why the long face Mr Tapir?!



Monkey scratching himself and probably the paintwork on the Range Rover that he was perched on!



Humphrey the Camel!



Monkey mirror!



Wind your neck in Mr Giraffe!

Most Interesting Flickr Photos

With the views of my flickr stream quickly approaching 15,000 I thought I'd have a play with some of my pictures that flickr users find most interesting. Interestingness of a photograph on flickr is calculated by the number of views, number of times added to other users favorites, total comments etc.

Thanks to this post from novemberfive.co.uk I found animoto.com and created some videos featuring my 15 most interesting Flickr pictures.

Remember Remember the Fifth of November

Always find it a bit strange that we celebrate Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. I know his attempt was foiled but still celebrating what these days would would be classed as a huge terrorist plot seems a bit strange to me!

Off to the fireworks tonight and am undecided whether to take my camera along so here are some from last year...

Rude Animal Origami

A couple of us at work in the past have had an interest in origami (mainly modular). We spent many a lunchtime folding paper to make various models.

Here are some of our creations...



Jen, our receptionist from New Zealand who sadly (we are missing her smiling face already) left us to return home last week also took a keen interest in this ancient Japanese art form and gave us a really good present when she left.


So we went to work on putting together one of the creations from the book and it had to be the cover shot :-D


Well done Jen, good luck in NZ, keep in touch and make sure you come and see us when you come back.

Data Stack!

Had a big clear out at work yesterday while looking for some CDs. It's amazing how many old floppy disks (both 3.5" and 5.25" varieties) that we used in the old days.

With all the CDs, DVDs and USB disks and drives these days the once useful floppy is well and truly extinct! I'm all for the new age of technology as everything is so very much quicker than it used to be but you can't help slightly reminiscing about these things!

Countdown to Christmas

With the supermarket shelves stocked with festive goodies, it's difficult to miss that Christmas is just around the corner.

I'm finding it hard to believe that's it's nearly a year since last Christmas and how quickly this year has flown by.

Looking forward to getting another real tree this year...you just can't beat the smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree to put you in a festive mood.