Light Drink

In place of a decent fact filled post (I've been busy!) here is another shot from my archives.

This one is of my bedside reading lamp!

Baby Spiders Again

I posted last year here about baby spiders in my garden.

Well, a year has passed and another batch have arrived. With the help of the macro light I was able to get these shots.

A view of the gate to give some perspective on how small the spiders were


Closer


Closer still

Before / After - Part 3

Currently having a few weeks off work and spent a portion of last week working on the front garden to create a more low maintenance area.

This involved clearing a skip worth of top soil (dumped on the front when I did the back garden), removing all the unwanted plants / bushes then doing a bit of landscaping.

Here's how it turned out.

Spiders Spiders Everywhere!

There seems to be a lot of spiders springing to life in my garden at the moment. I caught a glimpse of what appeared to be liquid moving but at a second glance realised that it was ball / mass of young spiders caught but the breeze and becoming detached from each other cascading with their newly found web spinning skills.

I took a couple of shots of one group that had detached itself from the rest. All I had to hand was my camera phone so not as clear as they could have been.

Torch that Sofa!

For Christmas, one of the presents I received was a xenon torch - something to keep in the car in case of emergency on these long winter nights.

I had a thought about using the torch with long exposure shots to get different effects. I haven't done many yet but here is a sample taken in my front room.

8 second exposure with torch positioned off centre.


2 second exposure with torch waving around to create a slightly smoky looking image.

I plan to adapt the torch to focus the light through a central point to create a smaller beam that can be used to highlight some objects.

Before / After - Part 2

Following on from this post (Before / After) I've spent a bit more time putting together photos of the house that I've had kicking around for over a year.

Bedroom 1


Lounge


Lounge

Before / After

This weekend saw me spending some time clearing out the spare room to make way for my new lodger who is moving in next week.

Faced with a wardrobe crammed with random stuff that I'd shoved in there I started sorting it in to piles of rubbish, things that needed a new home and possible items to sell on eBay.

Whilst doing this I started thinking off all the photos that I took in the house when I was renovating it and how I'd never actually done anything with them let alone even look at them.

With all the countless DIY and property shows loving the before and after shots I thought why not post a few on here for all to see.

Bedroom 2