Holiday in Cornwall

14th July, 2008

So I’ve had a holiday in a caravan with my family in rainy Cornwall during the week that had possibly the worst forecast for July ever. So bad in fact that our local presenter David Braine was demonstrating rainfall as dyed blue water in glasses, comparing the monthly average, which wasn’t very much, against a full glass symbolising what was expected to fall in just one day.

However it turned out nowhere near as bad as this and from the sounds it was further up nearer home that got all this rain. So we managed to visit some very beautiful places of which I have taken and uploaded photos to Flickr. I also managed to take a couple of quite successful panoramic photoshop-merged shots.

Harbour

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African Sundew Plants

18th May, 2008

I have experimentally planted some of my African Cape Sundew’s offspring (drosera capensis) down by our garden pond where they seem to have settled in quite nicely with the thousands of flies that hover about around there. I found a broken pot in which to plant them, that I partially buried on its side so that a bit of water would be pooled in it, but also begin draining off if the level gets too high.

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Looping Smarties Pattern

16th April, 2008

Yesterday I was given the interesting task of creating a looping pattern of smarties to be printed off in giant scale and wrapped around the outside of a van. After buying several smarties and taking a few photographs later, I produced this pattern:

Bottled Grass in the Earth Hour Darkness

29th March, 2008

Some grass had taken seed in with my glass bowl of Cape Sundew (drosera capensis) and rather than unearthing it and killing it, I decided to re-home it in a decorative blue glass bottle, where it has been growing happily ever since.

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Ruined Castle Flickr Photos

25th March, 2008

I’ve uploaded photographs of the ruined Berry Pomeroy Castle after a visit there.

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Dartmoor Photos

10th March, 2008

I have uploaded yet more dartmoor pictures to my flickr account!

(Mist rising from a stream in the Autumn sun.)

Cheers to the FRED chaps

4th March, 2008

A big thanks to the guys at FRED who took ‘we owe you a beer’ literally for the work I did updating their existing flash website and creating a mobile version.

Having been asked what my favourite beer was ‘for a survey’, to which the answer was Barcelona’s Estrella, I was sent 24 bottles! Needless to say I was pleasantly surprised.

A New Flickr Account

28th July, 2007

Now I have discovered some of the limitations of the free flickr account, such as a maximum of 200 photos and only 3 sets it was time to upgrade and since then I have been uploading hundreds of old photos from as far back as 2003, when I first got my digital camera.

Its quite a large task I’ve set myself, especially since I would like to tag all of them and get some form of reasonable order going.