Up Up and Away

Caught a few shots of this passing hot air balloon passing over my house.

I bet they got some good pictures from up there!

Reading Companion

Since we have been getting a bit of September sun recently, I have been making the most of my back garden. Generally just been there chilling out in the sun and reading a good book or the paper and it seems like one of the local cats has taken a shine to my garden as well.

He quite happily basks in the sun or rolls around on the decking and seems to appear whenever I am out there for more than a few minutes and makes himself at home.

As you can see, he is not camera shy either!

Life in Miniature

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a process in which a life-size pictures are manipulated (using an image editor) to give the impression of a scale model.

I have seen a number of really good ones online and thought I'd give it a quick try. Click on the images to enlarge as they look better in that size.





They are not fantastic but for 5mins effort who am I to complain! I think that finding the right photograph is the hardest part of this process.

To see more of these images, why not visit the Tilt-Shift Miniature Fakes group on Flickr

Zoom Zoom Zoom

Having another quick comparison between Flickr and Zooomr for photo views & stats. An earlier post on this subject can be found here.

The photo below was posted to both Flickr and Zooomr on 10 September 2008. So after one year, how do the stats compare.

Flickr Stats
Views: 153
Favorite: 5

Zooomr Stats
Views: 1275
Favorite: 29

As you can see, Zooomr still generates more interest in my photography and this picture is currently listed as my most awesome shot on Zooomr.

So Good They Named it Twice

On my way back home the other night I passed the Church of St Mary and St Nicholas in Wilton. I had my camera in the car so decided to stop and take a couple of night shots.

I always notice this striking structure when passing through Wilton, especially at night when it is illuminated.



Along the same themes as one of my recent posts, I also caught shot of the Nissan parked outside the church with streaming light trails of a passing car.


Out Take
During one of the long exposure shots, I had to move the camera and tripod to allow a car to pass down the driveway that I way blocking. The resulting image looks to me like a light painting of cyclists....possibly on a tandem!

Summers Over

The harvesting is being done, the nights are drawing in...there goes another crappy English summer where there was more rain than sun.