3 from the Sea

My daughter brought a collection of shells from her visit to Scarborough-here's 3 of them.

Jupiter fly-by

We're in the middle of decorating and we have this step ladder covered in old paint and dirt. It spoke to me, it told me to get my camera out!

Canon 30D + 100mm macro lens

Never Too Old

I spotted this in the town while waiting for the bus home, shot from the hip on the Panasonic compact.

If you look closely you can see my reflection!

Matthew's new wheels ;)

Matt recently acquired this sexy little number, a palm sized Jaguar XK Coupe, and I photographed it outside with the 50mm lens on my Canon.

Incredible colour photos from the early 1900s!

I just came across this site from a poster on Facebook. Truly amazing, clear colour photos from 1910 and earlier, using a process of taking three exposures one after another, each with a coloured filter (red green and blue), later combining them to form a full colour image.

A small example:

Click Here to see more

A guitar for David!

My 12 year step-son likes to strum on the kids' guitar, but its a bit small for him. I asked him if we got a guitar for him he would want me to teach him and he said yes, so we decided to look for a full sized classical. Yesterday we found this Taygus in a second-hand shop. It needed a restring and I got some cool looking silver/black strings for it. Its just settling in now-will take a while before it stays in tune but it sounds great! Only cost us £20 too (about $40?) Brand new it costs about £60 ($120) so was a bit of a bargain! Just hope he still wants to learn.... Taken with the Canon 30D and 19-35mm zoom out in the garden   

 

A Spider's Skin

Testing out the new flash bracket, (a C bracket made by Boling that we found on Ebay for £13) I stumbled upon this old spider skin in the shed.