For Novelty value only !
Keep guard Popeye, it's the last one in the larder

Well, it is food..isn't it

Just one minutes walk from the Main Street in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

This week the topic is "FOOD AND DRINK"
Please remember to tag your post "challenge5"

He's quackers!

Thought I'd post this here as well as on my own blog... hope you folks don't mind...

JUST FOR RABBIT BECAUSE HE ASKED

I have just announced the worlds first DIY wedding album on the paparazzistyle blog. I am now bracing myself for the media interest! I hope you find it interesting ?

I just had to see whether it is possible to capture Robin Red Breast again and get a better quality image !

This is the very first time I have ever seen this shot of a bird standing with its feet between parts of the handle of a garden fork ! If you are not ready you will never capture the moment !

We took that many pictures moving over to Ireland that I don't know if this is one of mine or one of Brads but either way it's the lighthouse as you coming to Rosslare on the Pembroke to Rosslare ferry.

This is just a practice with a software program recommeneded by Esspee, am glad to say it works. Plus its a nice picture.

Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.

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Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.

...hanging on for dear life...?

Anybody got dock leaves handy?

Just an amusing image for those bloggers who ride motorbikes !

It's not an easy subject to catch these bikes and riders going along at about 90 miles per hour. I took lots of shots and will post the remainder on my web site at lochnessimages.com

Just round the corner at Avoncroft Museum of Buildings
Taken earlier today

You don't see many butts like these anymore!

Even our ancestors knew how to conserve rainwater

As viewed from The Voyager of the Seas, whilst leaving Miami

After the final performance of "HMS Pinafore" Aimée just had to try on my bonnet.

I'm hoping that on the basis of the title alone one of the eight moderators of the photoblog will not delete this posting as these shots required more than a modicum of patience.

Pre-theatre drinks alfresco style!

This was the scene just outside the theatre at 2pm this afternoon.
It was a shame to go inside.

This may be a little late !

I've been busy, whats the theme?

....on the tiles again!

Here's hoping that the cogs of sleep will gently turn for you tonight!

“Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases.”
David Lindsay (Scottish Novelist 1876-1945)

There that should keep you going I'm off to get my cocoa.

A lttle pick me up
Taken with some water this should keep you going until you can get your next fix.
Good Health

Here's a question, do you tend to "see" photos before you even take them? On my blog lately I was asked about how I'd seen/decided to snap the skeleton of a sycamore seed.

My answer was just that I'd seen it in my head, how the final image would look before I'd even bent to my viewfinder, let alone pressed the shutter.

Some of the time I find photos by looking through my viewfinder at the framing... but some of the time I see what something will look like even with some extreme processing, like this one.

I looked and saw black and white, the strange mix of classic looking houses with wheelybins and satellite dishes, bit of old, bit of new...

On the beach

I thought this hazy Jersey sunset was very Monet like

Hows this for a Sieif Bear, tkaen outside the Stief tourist shop in Berlin

View of the Deck on the Thomson Celebration

I guess ther must be a prevailing wind...

...by the Dandelion clock...

The Glanderston Dam supplies water to the South side of Glasgow, reasonably good pike and perch fishing and the surrounding area is now opening as a country park.

Well I hope its a Chaffinch !

This was taken at my brother in laws house, he was throwing a party for his mum, more of her later. This picture should get bigger if you click on it.

I hope!

Rabbit

This is my father in law, Donald 83 this year!

I'm doing far too much of this right now...

View over the wheel of a Mississippi Paddle Steamer

I found this growing by the roadside.

The view from the kitchen window is not especially appealing but the colour of the light transforms a block of flats [ in a large old house ] and 5 minutes later everything reverts to dull grey.Estate Agents when photographing properties either don't know this or don't care. What a difference the quality of the image can make in the sale of property !

Outside a Buffalo Grill in central France.
Beware Miss La-Spice The SpiritBird is nearer than you think.

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I took this about half an hour ago.  It gets bigger if you click on it.

From the Thomson Destiny  January 2008

I never saw the guy on the ladder painting until after I had them developed.

Taken in Norfolk, It was actually shot on black & white film, when I got it developed I was give a CD with the pictures on it. I bought the camera a Canon E500 on Ebay for £5.00 the good thing it can use all my lens I have for my digital camera

Sunset from the Thomson Destiny

...........that is forever....

....................................................................North America?

I noticed someone had posted a lovely picture of a spring lamb, so here are three pictures of my lamb Mary, who I bottle-fed for a long time. She was within about an hour of dying when we found her, because her mother died having her.  A bottle and a warm box by the fire perked her up nicely. The first picture shows her about the same size as my rabbit, and he isn't a large rabbit. In the 2nd one, she is standing up for about the first time. They aren't good pictures, I just like the subject matter!

Tom.

What are you!

Ooh, I fee a bit wobbly!

Can I get milk from this?

I know it's a bit early for posting the current challenge, not actually sure when pics should be posted, a review of the rules would be handy.

it's supposed to be spring!!

Found in October 2006 on a wall in Sacromente barrio, Granada, Spain.

Two pictures with a flat horizon line, at different times of day. They both get bigger if you click on them.

I posted this one on my blog a while ago, but thought it deserved a repost here. It gets bigger if you click on it.

I was brought up less than 5 miles from here.

View of the Suez Canal from the back of Thomson Celebration Northbound March 2008

I owned all these     Now they're just faded memories.

There is a long story attached to the church that thhis stained glass windwo belongs to which I may post on later but doubt it is of much interest to anyone but me...I took several which I meant to post for Easter and have been unable to spend much time on the pc. Will post a few more, sorry for not commenting on some of the recent photos from other members, I hope to catch up asap

I took this in Berlin zoo, this little chap was really playfull and quite cute.

Hary Potter eat your heart out, take once angle at a wildlife centre, I love this snowy owl, the yellow of the eyes is brilliant!

Rabbit

Little Maria and two excessively-armed guards at Bangalore station, Karnataka. They don't really look like they'd ever bear to use them, do they?

The scripts marking the exit from left to right are Kannada, Hindi, and English.

Just before Easter boat owners prepare to sail. In this case the deck is covered in sand and is being brushed away.

Didn't quite get finished melting my milk bottle in to an angel.

Please note, there are no wheelchairs anywhere in sight.
This picture was taken in Cobh, Ireland (Not far from Cork)

Picture of the Voyager of the Seas, moored at Kings Dock, Bermuda, Just before her Transatlantic Voyage to Barcelona.

A wild primrose

Spring challenge
"The primroses were over" is the first sentence of which novel?

..........................................a spring in her step!
Well somebody had to do it!!!

"Midnight Blue"

Today we had to visit Coventry so we stopped off for an hour in the town centre.
These are my Easter pictures.

The old reflected in the new

Coventry Cathedral        'Lest we forget'

The good news is that the snow is forecast to thaw fairly rapidly

Ooops..just realised my camera clock must be set 12 hours behind time as I took this snapshot only half an hour ago!

Also shot at a Wildlife Centre, this a beautiful grass snake.

I took this at a Wildlife Centre, I have never seen one in the wild, and if I did the speed they move I doubt I would get a good picture

Happy Easter everyone.

It's only recently I've discovered that the ordinary everyday things can seem beautiful if you look at them with a different eye (or should that be "lens"?). I took this from a beautifully laid-out stall in Portobello Market. The one on the right looks like it's blushing - or am I getting too sentimental in me old adage? Perhaps make that "sent to mental" when given a camera and too much time.

Or a study in time and motion.

'Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes' ?

No these Basque marchers actually had massive bells on their bottoms one to left and one to the right !

http://basque.unr.edu/dance/pages/yoaldunak.htm
Link suggested by La_Spice to whom many thanks.

Sometimes you cannot believe what happens. In the morning it had snowed. After lunch there was a blink of sun and I went shopping and was suddenly confronted by these colourful characters from the Basque region of Spain who laid on fabulous entertainment by dances and marching in wonderful traditional costumes.

That's exactly what Esspee's photo challenge turned into this week!

Thanks to everyone who entered my "tease the tease" especially happy 28 who was the first to correctly identify the mystery object.

Currently under renovation for the next few years, it is expected to be just as it was when first built by Wren, It has suffered if the last few from pollution and requires a good clean. Fortunately it wasn’t damaged during the war, while all around was decimated.

Rabbit

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky"

HAPPY EASTER ONE AND ALL!

I have always liked this picture, there is something about it that appeals to me, I think its the light, this Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross station is in the background!

Rabbit

This image used a polar coordinate transform and to me spelled recycled plastic.

I found my last post rather boring so tried out some transformations which may amuse !

Having posted some wordy comments I thought I should get back to Imagery !

.............for Jack!

TAKE TWO: No you're not seeing double - though it looks as if the man doing the road markings was!

Would you park your car here?

This tree's not going anywhere it's protected

I was asked to post the originals of Falkland Palace, so here we are. I prefer the black and white one

The original and modified, together

Falkland Palace in the Kingdom of Fife here is a shot of the Gardens

Falkland Palace in the Kingdom of Fife here is a shot of the Gardens, don't you just the love the lawn.

Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.

Of course not!

Carrelets are little wooden cabins precariously balanced on stilts and connected to the coast by a fragile-looking pontoon structure. A long jib attached to the front allows a large fishing net to drop down to sea level.

Particularly appreciated by photographers and painters, the carrelets are the archetypal image of the Charente-Maritime coastline.

..........on the beach!

As I know abstract isn't for everyone... have a couple 'normal shots too

...what's real, what's reflected?

Rainy day in Homs city.

Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.

Copyright-Dean Christopher,2008.

La_Spice asked for a yellow sheep but I have only found a black one and that isn't one of my best images either !

...but I liked it.

PS, not fiddled in any way, I even left the auto white balance.

...a camellia.

No not a reference to Scotch Whisky just a lovely old placid dog seen last Saturday at a Garden Centre near Nairn.

What a great face!!!

This may seem an obvious question but "What is a photograph" Susan Sontag wrote a book
"On Photography" exploring this question. Before we can create good images do we need to understand the medium itself ?

The views of others are welcome here !

Congratulations everyone, we have reached 100 members and we are growing everyday. Keep up the good work, and enjoy posting and commenting on the pictures that are submitted!

In the short time we have been here, we have posted 645 pictures and submitted over 5100 comments thats some going, keep it!

Rabbit

I love the dark clouds in the sky gives the picture a little atmosphere, It was grey miserable day and the colour one was too good, so I coverted it to black and white!

I took this a number of years ago, and when I first aquired photoshop, I was messing around and came up with this. I first coverted it to black and white and I used the invert, so in effect its really a negative. But I was pleased with the results, I just hope its to your tastes.

Rabbit

.................lunch

Although perhaps not as aesthetic as La_Spice's Letter Box this is the only one in this pattern which I have seen. Of course there may be many more I haven't spotted !