Wednesday, 26 December 2007

Adeste Fideles video download link

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Deck the halls

Adeste Fideles

Wednesday, 19 December 2007

Sunday, 16 December 2007

Friday, 14 December 2007

Sunday, 2 December 2007

Pest Control

To Mark's relief the team of pest exterminators successfully navigate the piano on their way to the attic...at which point he considered his search in yellow pages and that "The Davros galactic pest exterminator company" was an unusual but now familiar name

Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Saturday, 24 November 2007

Christmas shopping ideas 1


Shimajiro the toilet training tiger



Tuesday, 20 November 2007

Sunday, 18 November 2007

Monday, 12 November 2007

Ready to do some recording?

32 Years ago I saw an old reel to reel tape recorder in a second hand shop. It was German and built like a tank, it's not common to find tape recorders using valves, I think it was made in the 50's, the microphone certainly looked like something that Elvis would have sang into in his early days.

In this recording you will hear the motor and also a local taxi office, which we picked up on just about everything.

Rose can be heard off mic from the kitchen.

Mark is about 18 months old and later we will go up to "Gampy's" to feed the "Quack Quack's"

Saturday, 10 November 2007

Tuesday, 6 November 2007

November 5th

First we watched the fireworks over the city, which were rather small and domestic, but nonetheless enjoyable due to the view. (First half of video)

Then we went to the back garden for our own display, (Second half of video) which I had been working on for a number of months with the help of instructional websites such as the Insane Amateurs Guide to Homemade Pyrotechnics and How to Grow your Eyebrows Back in Less than 8 Weeks.

Wednesday, 31 October 2007

Monday, 29 October 2007

Saturday, 20 October 2007

Tuesday, 16 October 2007

Sunday, 14 October 2007

Frog Photography

I went into the back garden today with the camera to see if anything wanted it's photo taken and before taking 5 steps I noticed a few of this years froglets on the garden steps, so I thought I would practice my micro-photography.

The froglets have grown well this summer but are still less than 8mm in size, so I needed to get real close.

I also had to cope with low lighting levels, initially shooting at an 8th of a second shutter speed, but the F2.7 aperture gave me insufficient depth of field. This was overcome by forcing the flash to fire which reduced the aperture to F4.5 at a 40th of a second.

To get an idea of scale you may notice the sand grains on some of the froglets.




Thursday, 11 October 2007

Monday, 1 October 2007

Tuesday, 11 September 2007

Millie Anne Sandra Sowden



Monday 10th September 2007...10.05pm
6lbs 8ozs

Photography by Clare Hayes

Saturday, 8 September 2007