In keeping with promise to myself to make the most of this site, here is a little something that kept me amused this week. The Mumble Indie Bungle is a deliberate knock-off of your regular indie bundle, consisting of five free minigames. I can recommend World of Glue for its patent ridiculousness. Be patient – it’s worth it,
Cambridge have finally pulled the plug on my accounts, my Hermes is no more, and my long-suffering SRCF account will die in due course as well. Time to move on. I’m not sure how good they are, but for now 1&1 internet will be looking after the junkyard. The web address will stay the same. The databases have, eventually, managed to move across, and everything should work as before. If anything doesn’t, please leave a comment. If comments don’t work then you’ll have to be inventive.
More substantial and interesting posts to follow, I promise.
Many thanks to Ian and Finola for organising a week in the Norfolk Broads to celebrate New Year. Finding a cottage with a free boat within 4 miles of the Woodforde’s was inspired, although you can’t prove that we ever visited the brewery since we managed to drink all 72 pints of the evidence.
New Year’s Eve also gave us a chance to dress up and polish our french accents, as we took part in “The Brie, The Bullet and The Black Cat”. While I won’t spoil the surprises, you can be reassured that no-one was exactly as the seemed… It also gave me a chance to play with my new flashgun, which really made a difference for indoor portraits.
Other highlights included tens of herons, thousands of seagulls and a beachful of mating, pupping and nursing seals (well worth a visit).
My Minolta 500mm f/8 reflecting lens is an engineering marvel, an insanely long lens in a relatively small and light package. It does have drawbacks though, with a small aperture meaning it is unable to let in a lot of light, something that would be quite handy with such a telephoto lens. In the morning light of a dull Manchester day, this means cranking up the ISO and still having to hold tight to prevent blurry photos. Still, these pictures are far better than I would have managed with a regular zoom lens.
I’ve seen this jay around in our garden quite a bit, this morning he was quite happy to forage in the gutter and garden while I ran around finding and fitting the lens.
Sony A500 + Minolta AF 500mm Reflex @ f/8, ~1/125 s, ISO 1600
Shot through a glass window, contrast adjusted using Windows Live Photo Gallery(!)
After a little trim – too much hair in my breakfast!
Exhausted gym mo
In which Mo goes to Tesco.
Seen when updating the bios of my work pc. I hope the quality control of the update itself is a bit better…
Fun with sparklers last weekend. Bulb mode on the camera was a great discovery 🙂
I missed a few days of photos, I was slightly distracted due to a collapsing clutch in our car, and look what happened to my face!