Try this for Size (part 2)

Here it is again - I appear to have deleted the photograph of the last entry!

Still learning

I have done this to show that I am still learning, having discovered from the new daughter on the blogging block about Collage. However I am intrigued that it has a certain limitation. I selected 7 photographs and it came up with 9, having repeated the first two!!?? Of interest they might be they are not the best of the bunch but why the extra anyway and how is it prevented?

Try this for size

It was a wet day when I took this and the other photos in the collage above, but there were clear spells. However it started raining again when I did this one. This photograph does enlarge when you click on it - and my it does look impressive! - the view, not the photo particularly.

Did I say the view looks impressive?! Where on earth has it gone????

Sunset time photos

The camera is in dock for up to 3 weeks. The lens cap fits on to a little ring round the lens cap. This ring should be firmly fixed. Somehow it has worked loose, and two days ago when I was out photographing in the setting-sun light this ringy thing went AWOL. So the camera has returned to its maker to be fixed (is there a sermon here?). Meanwhile, except for the first photograph, here are some results of that unfortunate expedition.
This is an earlier study in Pink - in getting the right exposure for the deep pink of the g.l.'s Tote, or Scrapbooking bag, a marvellous invention that enables the serious Scrapbooker to have very many tools required at hand. I like the contrasts of the whites and yellow, too.

Evie's influence is shown here because I first took some conventional distance shots, but she's always saying,'Get close-up' and I thought the lamplight made it all the more interesting.

This is a first time use of the Wide-angle facility. The camera playback shows 2 places where it is over-exposed. Can you work out where these are?

The sun was behind me here, all but a small fraction of it hidden behind a house, its light striking the leaves horizontally.

An attempt at mystery! Who's lurking behind the bush, watching the bridge for whoever and whatever?? Agreeably the setting is right, putting the bridge in focus while the nearer bush is slightly out, though I am not quite sure how I managed it!

This pretty little water feature is part of the New River Walk setting of most of these photographs. I did a short movie of it as well which looks clearer than this.

Back home I caught this unusual view of Berry. He is normally to be found high up - on couch, chair, bed, table, box, not on the floor, even if it is by the warm radiator. Soon afterwards he did go to the couch. This dark photo is on Auto ISO 800. I tried manual lighter touches but could not get anything satisfactory. The leaves shot is on Auto ISO 80, but the rest are all on manual at ISO 100.

Can anyone suggest why these pictures do not respond to the click that is supposed to enlarge them?

London etc part the second

My system doesn't let me put up more than 5 photos at a time - or if it does I don't know how -so officially this is the second batch, but of course it has come up at the top of the blog. It's rather like some films which have prequels. Anyway, these flowers are in St James's Park and they make a friendly little grouping.

You might think I have a strange imagination, but these seemed just like the Formula 1 cars belting off at the start of their race or even the start of the marathon. It can be surprising what you see creeping imto the public toilets!
These poor Horse Guards soldiers are just marching off from having been inspected by an officer in the full gaze of the public. To the right off-screen were two mounted soldiers whose horses were also given the look-over. You couldn't hear if he was pleased or not!

London through the new camera

I know, this is not London, but I thought it was an interesting view - and he did not fall off!


This is name the flower time for those who know about these things, which I don't, but I like the
colour and shadow. The red flowers are supposed to be in the centre.
A famous landmark separating the Mall leading up to Buckingham Palace from Trafalgar Square.
I din't notice the angle until I put it on here by which time it was too late to edit it, but you get the idea.