13 March, 2009
A little while ago I comment on how I had yet to edit the photos I had taken before Christmas when visiting my father in Cornwall - Photos that I still haven’t edited.
Enjoying my first full day in Cornwall I have added about another 700 photos to the queue, but despite being at the back of the queue. I have already given them a quick edit down to about 100 photos which I will try and get put up on here shortly.
All the photos were taken down at Widemouth Bay whilst I helped my father take the dogs for a walk and whilst one of the dogs wasn’t particularly obliging, the other was a right poser as you can see above.
I’ll put a link up to the gallery just as soon as I can get the photos up - Due to the vagaries of the Internet at my Dad’s I can’t get access to my website and so I am having to type this up elsewhere and so can’t upload them all at the moment.
9 January, 2009
As well as doing a spot of sightseeing at abbeys and museums when my friend Richard was down we also took in a few of the sights of the other sights on offer - It’s been a while since he was down this way so a lot of Bristol city centre was new to him. Mind you it was new to me as well, because until this week I had not set foot inside Cabot Circus and now that I have, I rather unsurprisingly don’t feel like I have missed out on all that much.
One of the things Richard saw that I took for granted though was the above Banksy, which he had seen photographed, but with the photographs not giving anyidea of where the photograph is situated (a trend my photo doesn’t break).
Anyway Rich, you know where to find it now and even better here’s a larger copy of the photo for you and anyone else that wants it.
Banksy on Park Street, Bristol - Big Version
13 December, 2008
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to the beach I go. I do have a reason for visiting the beach when it’s cold and wet however, or rather my father who I am visiting provided me with one - Walking the dogs. Rather handily though I only required one hand to hold on to the dog and so I could wield my camera in the other.
My only annoyance, was that the subject of my photos was landscapes, a theme I have never really got on with. Still I did my best to remember the rules I was taught as a kid like 1/3 sky and 2/3 land, whilst wishing I had a polarising filter and took more photos in an hour than I’ve taken in the past few weeks.
Guess what I’ll be putting up here during the week…
21 October, 2008
A couple of days ago I posed a riddle, “What happens if you pick on Charlie Brown?”
Then answer of course is; “The dog gets it”.
Or at least that is what this piece of Bristol graffiti would have you believe.
19 October, 2008
A couple of days ago I asked what song title this pictogram could possibly represent:
Before I give it away completely the band who performed this song were the Beach Boys…
Still not got it, the track has the same title as the album it’s on…
That’s right it’s Pet Sounds from the album Pet sounds. Now for a word of warning I drew about 30 of these pictograms at the time and I have added a few more since so tere may well be some more of these soon.
For the moment however here is a riddle inspired by a piece of graffiti I saw on the way to work the other day that is tenuously connected to music. In 1959 in the song the Coasters had a top 10 hit with the song Charlie Brown, where Charlie Brown asked the question, “Why’s everybody always picking on me?”
Now although that Charlie Brown has no connection to Charlie Brown of Peanuts’ fame, I ask you what happens if you pick on Charlie Brown?
20 September, 2008
