The Bored At Work Series...

Buttons:

Okay, okay, I'll admit it - I was bored. Sat at my desk, with nothing to do. So I whipped out the N95, and started snapping. This image of the buttons on the phone caught my eye when I was going back through the images that I had taken. Check it out at full res - and you'll see how dusty the phone is too. Nice.

Date Taken: 20/08/2008

Image Size: 2592 x 1944

File Size: 770kb

Hands:

Here we have a great specimen of two images: My hands. The left one, and the right one. And yes, I am considering having my rings cut off. Gulp. Or I could just lose some weight... I must say, though, that checking out the image at full size reveals that the right hand is much clearer than the left hand. I wonder why that could be?

Date Taken: 20/08/2008

Image Size: 2592 x 1944

File Size: 613kb

Date Taken: 20/08/2008
Image Size: 2592 x 1944

File Size: 715kb

Comments, as usual, welcome!

Orange Pepper

On the chopping board...:

I was just about to start cooking - Fajitas were on the menu - and I took the pepper out of the fridge, and chucked it onto the chopping board, which was actually also on a glass chopping surface. I turned round, looked at it, and instead of reaching for the knife, I reached for the N95. Great shot!

Date Taken: 17/08/2008 17:20

Image Size: 2592 x 1944

File Size: 642kb

Comments, as always, welcome!

Budding

Flower in Porch:

This plant is in the porch of my home - I don't know what type of plant it is - maybe someone can identify it - but it has fantastic colours in it. The beautiful bright red contrasts so well against the yellow flower, and the dark green leaves make an awesome backdrop to the plant. I just couldn't resist taking this photo!

Date Taken: 16/08/2008 13:07
Image Size: 2592 x 1944
File Size: 714kb

Comments, as usual, welcome!

PS - This plant is now dead. I may upload a picture of it in it's dying state... but it's not pleasant...

The Fallen Leaf

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I love this picture, taken in the grounds of Harmony Gardens in Scotland.

The leaf's gorgeous greenery contrasts fantastically with the pebbled ground.

I just had to whip out the N95 to snap it up.


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Date: 10/08/2007 14:38
Dimensions: 2592 x 1944
Size: 1.57mb

Comments, as always, much appreciated!

Hadrian's Wall: North and South

For our anniversary, my wife and I went into Northumberland. We went to a few places - the grounds of Slaley Hall, a De Vere hotel with two 18 hole golf courses and it's own Japanese garden - it was beautiful, despite the fact that it was chucking it down with rain.

We also went to Allen Banks and Staward's Gorge, photo's from which I have posted earlier in this blog. From there, we headed North to Hadrian's Wall and Housesteads Fort. It was a bit of a disappointment really - and the weather was naff to say the least.

But we paid the money, and walked into the little museum/information centre to learn all about why the wall was built, and then moseyed on out to the ruins of the fort. There was just little low walls running everywhere, which had been marked as sleeping quarters, dining area, galley, etc etc.

Then this little scene caught my eye - it's the view North and the view South running along one of the boundaries of the Fort, and, crouching down, I pulled out the N95, and snapped these two shots.


This image is looking North

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Date: 11/07/2008 16:21
Dimensions: 2592 x 1944
Size: 0.98mb


This image is facing South

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Date: 11/07/2008 16:21
Dimensions: 2592 x 1944
Size: 978kb

So what do you think?

The Maze of Glass - Kielder

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So one day in the summer I went up to Kielder in Northumberland. It's a fantastic area, with it's immense forest, humongous reservoir, and absolutely tiny castle...

A new feature to the grounds of the castle was a walk-through maze, which I was quite excited about, until I got there and saw it for myself. It, like the castle, was somewhat lacking in size. Constructed from local hewn stones, it was drab and grey.

Until you got to the middle, that is.

For in the centre of the maze, the surrounding walls were made of chunks of glass held in place by chicken wire. And in case that doesn't sound too cool, check out the picture that I took of it on the N95:


I must admit, I was quite taken with this shot. What do you think?

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Date: 26/05/2008 14:26
Dimensions: 2592 x 1944
Size: 1.61mb

The Penguin

During my holiday in Tenerife, I had the pleasure of going to Loro Parque, initially a parrot sanctuary but now a full blown animal sanctuary/zoo, complete with Orca whales, dolphins, gorillas, tigers, and, of course, plenty of parrots. It also had a penguinarium, with many species of penguin.

I shot lots of pictures and video in the penguinarium, but the most striking, in my opinion, is this:


They way the penguin was coming straight towards me, the way you can see above and below the surface, the way the water is churned up in the background - for me, this is my favourite picture from Loro Parque. Your thoughts?

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Date: 25/09/2008 12:16
Dimensions: 2592 x 1944
Size: 673kb

Water Droplet On A Flower

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Of all the pictures that I have taken so far, this is my ultimate fave. I was in a National Trust garden (again!), on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. We had been to Scotland for the weekend, and were heading back home when we spotted this Trust garden, and parked up and popped in. There were some lovely flowers around, which will be added to this blog in due course, but this one was a beauty.

I have no idea what it is called, but the way that the water was hanging on the flower, about to drop, really caught my eye. I waited as long as I dared, as I didn't want to the water to drop off.

I grabbed the N95, changed it to close up mode, and snapped it.

Everyone - yes, everyone - who sees this photo says that it is gorgeous.

What do you think?


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Date: 10/08/2008 15:33
Dimensions: 1944 x 2592
Size: 678kb

Dawyck Botanical Gardens - Pillar

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I snapped this image on the N95 when I was in the fabulous Dawyck Botanical Gardens of Scotland in August.

I particularly loved the way the stone and the moss intertwined, and it looked fantastic against the backdrop of the home.

Image information:
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Date taken: 08.08.2008
Time: 16:15
Dimensions: 1944 x 2592
Image size: 1.22mb




More images from Dawyck will be posted shortly!