.. a little back to front but .. only I know that!
The Golden Tower
Thursday, 19 April 2018
A FISTFUL OF PICTURES (Part Two)
Here are some newer pictures I took recently and post processed before I got to posting any of the others so ..
.. a little back to front but .. only I know that!
.. a little back to front but .. only I know that!
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
A FISTFUL OF PICTURES (Part One)
After a very long pregnant pause and against all the odds .. health, pain .. anxiety ..
I have now taken a fair few pictures and produced a bucket load more ..
Will not be putting them all here .. too many and decided some i did not like!
https://www.flickr.com/gp/89426160@N05/BU4754
There will be several parts/posts over the coming days ..
I have now taken a fair few pictures and produced a bucket load more ..
Will not be putting them all here .. too many and decided some i did not like!
https://www.flickr.com/gp/89426160@N05/BU4754
There will be several parts/posts over the coming days ..
Friday, 6 April 2018
A SPRING IN WAITING
A few more pictures and hopefully over the next week I can produce several dozen .. hopefully?! I say 'week' because the weather for the next six days as as bad as you can imagine. Rain .. as is often the case of late.
Thursday, 22 March 2018
A FEW PICTURES MORE
It is relatively hard to do that which I want to do right now.
I am wrapped up in a number of very serious things and most of last year's plans got destroyed because this country likes to be dishonest and .. well, cheat. All details of this are on another blog .. but I am trying to make the most of my current situation but it has its .. difficulties.
Been trying to get out for a few days but my own health problems and then someone close to me has cancer and had a second biopsy. This is not good and I ended up getting pictures closer to home that had not occurred to me previously.
When I do get the time to take some photos and then when I have gone through the long process of editing them on my slow PC, when it has not restarted spontaneously or the Virgin Media has not gone down for the umpteenth time that day I put them on ..
There are more photos on some of those than there are here.
My main picture site is actually FlickR as it uploads full size pictures, some others refuse to, and stores and shows people what camera I use and what lenses are used along with the settings like ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture size.
I have over 1,500 photos but many were taken on non-professional cameras, something I have only recently moved up to and all of last year I hardly took anything. Has been somewhat .. annoying but could not be avoided.
I would be happy if I could get 500 useful photos uploaded over the next couple of months.
That is going to be a .. challenge .. thanks to defunct and inactive public services.
I used two lenses in these few photos and one a Sigma 85mm f1.4 and the other a Sony 24-70mm f2.8 both on my Sony A99II.
Also was the first decent sunlight I have had to work with in a bloody long time!
I am wrapped up in a number of very serious things and most of last year's plans got destroyed because this country likes to be dishonest and .. well, cheat. All details of this are on another blog .. but I am trying to make the most of my current situation but it has its .. difficulties.
Been trying to get out for a few days but my own health problems and then someone close to me has cancer and had a second biopsy. This is not good and I ended up getting pictures closer to home that had not occurred to me previously.
When I do get the time to take some photos and then when I have gone through the long process of editing them on my slow PC, when it has not restarted spontaneously or the Virgin Media has not gone down for the umpteenth time that day I put them on ..
- FlickR - allnights1 https://www.flickr.com/gp/89426160@N05/7p3jG7
- Instagram - saintallnights (what else?) https://www.instagram.com/saintallnights/
- Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/allnights/
- Tumblr - https://www.tumblr.com/blog/saintallnights
There are more photos on some of those than there are here.
My main picture site is actually FlickR as it uploads full size pictures, some others refuse to, and stores and shows people what camera I use and what lenses are used along with the settings like ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture size.
I have over 1,500 photos but many were taken on non-professional cameras, something I have only recently moved up to and all of last year I hardly took anything. Has been somewhat .. annoying but could not be avoided.
I would be happy if I could get 500 useful photos uploaded over the next couple of months.
That is going to be a .. challenge .. thanks to defunct and inactive public services.
I used two lenses in these few photos and one a Sigma 85mm f1.4 and the other a Sony 24-70mm f2.8 both on my Sony A99II.
Also was the first decent sunlight I have had to work with in a bloody long time!
Thursday, 15 March 2018
THE BOKEH BEGINNING
Back after an unintended and very extended break .. despite the new camera and a very long story covered in the blog and to be covered in the media, according to a media agent a contract was signed with, later in the year.
These were taken with either a Sony 24-70mm f2.8 or a Sigma 85mm f1.4 on a Sony A99II and about time I got some with some bokeh!
I have recently started taking photos at the worst time of the year ..
Remember I am still experimenting .. getting used to the new camera and most importantly .. in a lot of pain when I am doing this .. or was doing this lot!
These were taken with either a Sony 24-70mm f2.8 or a Sigma 85mm f1.4 on a Sony A99II and about time I got some with some bokeh!
I have recently started taking photos at the worst time of the year ..
Remember I am still experimenting .. getting used to the new camera and most importantly .. in a lot of pain when I am doing this .. or was doing this lot!
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
THE BIGGEST CHANGE
I am not in Enfield any longer!
Apologies for the delay but things have been .. hectic!
In fact I am still between homes but I can tell you that I am around 240 miles from the nearest London borough!
I am looking and have contacted organisations in North Wales as well as Cheshire along with a few in the area I am currently in.
I have been here 9 days and had intended to purchase a laptop to continue posting on my blogs but .. I only acquired one yesterday, bought one that was used as new laptops are a total rip-off for what essentially only have two cores, is this the late 90's?
However despite getting a hold of, surprisingly, a HP Envy laptop and this being the second used electronic device I bought from this area in a little over two months both are faulty.
This laptop seems fine except that when charging it seems to only charge slowly and at a lower rate than it discharges, even with battery savings on, and it WILL shut off, which it did yesterday evening around 7pm.
Leaving the laptop on charge while off all evening and all night I was relieved to see that it did in fact have a full charge by 9am this morning.
I had wondered if the battery was knackered, it is not an easily removable one, or whether I had been given the wrong or faulty charger?
The little light by the power socket on the side of the laptop does indeed light up when plugged in and even when the power is off. I am assuming that it is receiving some power as the light being on and when it was down to one minute remaining it still went for an hour before shutting down.
So I have to return to the cash converter store to see if the power lead is the right one and whether it is faulty or not.
I feel somewhat better knowing now I have contacted several organisations in the hope that they can assist me in what I want to do.
Oh yeah ..
This little detail about moving?
I relocated here, though I have yet to officially relocate, because my daughter and grandchildren not only need help but are also in danger and .. well .. there is not anyone else to help and do not even mention pubic services to me.
The children have many problems due to the negative affect domestic abuse has had and added to that I am now told that one of my grandchildren is autistic.
Another shows signs of this too but as that is the youngest one we are not sure if it is sure fire symptom or whether or not mimicking is going on?
Before I left and on the day I was leaving for the umpteenth time I was asked to stay, told by my landlord that if it did not work out he would happily rent to me again and there is a place if it did not work out within three weeks.
I was also told by two separate people that me leaving was the end of an era! Oddly both also called Steve but did not know each other.
When I explained why .. again I was told I was an honest and honourable man. Has to be just about one of the nicest things anyone ever said about me.
I am currently in the Wirral.
Hmm? I used to know someone in North Wales?! Unfortunately they got the wrong end of a very long stick and stopped talking to me, after accusing me of first trying to start a civil war and then a government shill.
I only hope I get a great deal of photography done over the next six months to a year? Both landscapes and wildlife.
Apologies for the delay but things have been .. hectic!
In fact I am still between homes but I can tell you that I am around 240 miles from the nearest London borough!
I am looking and have contacted organisations in North Wales as well as Cheshire along with a few in the area I am currently in.
I have been here 9 days and had intended to purchase a laptop to continue posting on my blogs but .. I only acquired one yesterday, bought one that was used as new laptops are a total rip-off for what essentially only have two cores, is this the late 90's?
However despite getting a hold of, surprisingly, a HP Envy laptop and this being the second used electronic device I bought from this area in a little over two months both are faulty.
This laptop seems fine except that when charging it seems to only charge slowly and at a lower rate than it discharges, even with battery savings on, and it WILL shut off, which it did yesterday evening around 7pm.
Leaving the laptop on charge while off all evening and all night I was relieved to see that it did in fact have a full charge by 9am this morning.
I had wondered if the battery was knackered, it is not an easily removable one, or whether I had been given the wrong or faulty charger?
The little light by the power socket on the side of the laptop does indeed light up when plugged in and even when the power is off. I am assuming that it is receiving some power as the light being on and when it was down to one minute remaining it still went for an hour before shutting down.
So I have to return to the cash converter store to see if the power lead is the right one and whether it is faulty or not.
I feel somewhat better knowing now I have contacted several organisations in the hope that they can assist me in what I want to do.
Oh yeah ..
This little detail about moving?
I relocated here, though I have yet to officially relocate, because my daughter and grandchildren not only need help but are also in danger and .. well .. there is not anyone else to help and do not even mention pubic services to me.
The children have many problems due to the negative affect domestic abuse has had and added to that I am now told that one of my grandchildren is autistic.
Another shows signs of this too but as that is the youngest one we are not sure if it is sure fire symptom or whether or not mimicking is going on?
Before I left and on the day I was leaving for the umpteenth time I was asked to stay, told by my landlord that if it did not work out he would happily rent to me again and there is a place if it did not work out within three weeks.
I was also told by two separate people that me leaving was the end of an era! Oddly both also called Steve but did not know each other.
When I explained why .. again I was told I was an honest and honourable man. Has to be just about one of the nicest things anyone ever said about me.
I am currently in the Wirral.
Hmm? I used to know someone in North Wales?! Unfortunately they got the wrong end of a very long stick and stopped talking to me, after accusing me of first trying to start a civil war and then a government shill.
I only hope I get a great deal of photography done over the next six months to a year? Both landscapes and wildlife.
Friday, 15 September 2017
SOME EARLY PHOTOS
Yeesh!
This is something I forgot about and while getting used to the camera and controls I have been stabbed in the back by a couple of public services that must assume everyone lies as they tried to make me out to be a liar .. again.
Unfortunately this has blown up in their faces but they think that they are safe. They are not.
Anyway .. I have also been in the middle of several other pretty major things, which will only add to the pain of these so called, aforementioned, public services. As a result I am not getting out as much as I would have liked to have done to experiment with all the photography I want to do.
But I have done and I forgot to add things in a post on this blog.
So if I remember correctly there was a size limit to the pictures I can upload on Blogger?
So I have to use something else and some links .. except there does not appear to be an obvious way of sharing on FlickR, as there is on say YouTube?
So here goes ..
Tiger Longwing Butterfly taken at Whipsnade Zoo's butterfly house ..
https://flic.kr/p/YCXwCe
Huh?! It refuses point blank to link the photo in, stating that a picture cannot be found from the shared link I provided?! Jesus Christ! Lol.
Maybe it is because FlickR is not owned by Google? Or maybe it is? Christ, they have bought so many companies it is hard to keep track!
A Postman Butterfly ..
https://flic.kr/p/Yqpwja
A Flambeau Butterfly ..
https://flic.kr/p/YqrxoR
An African Hunting Dog ..
https://flic.kr/p/YD4jBi
The real Wolverine ..
https://flic.kr/p/XoTZEi
A Meerkat ..
https://flic.kr/p/Ym9YV5
A view of the Chilterns
https://flic.kr/p/Y2Jy3Q
Getting a little more artistic now ..
A Bee on Rapeseed ..
https://flic.kr/p/Ya5Ffz
Ghosts at Sunset ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BNsU
Dark & Purple ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BHDW
Rapeseed in Late Summer ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BH2J
.. and again ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BHgm
and lastly .. to top it off and for the first and second time ..
A Kingfisher ..
https://flic.kr/p/Y61JQS
Good god, that looks rubbish with just links! Lol.
I was with another chap when I got the Kingfisher and he was frustrated at how he could not freeze a flying birds wings when taking a photo..
..so I took his Canon and showed him how. He was extremely delighted he had bumped into me and mentioned it a few times before we both left. Lol.
Happy to be of service.
This is something I forgot about and while getting used to the camera and controls I have been stabbed in the back by a couple of public services that must assume everyone lies as they tried to make me out to be a liar .. again.
Unfortunately this has blown up in their faces but they think that they are safe. They are not.
Anyway .. I have also been in the middle of several other pretty major things, which will only add to the pain of these so called, aforementioned, public services. As a result I am not getting out as much as I would have liked to have done to experiment with all the photography I want to do.
But I have done and I forgot to add things in a post on this blog.
So if I remember correctly there was a size limit to the pictures I can upload on Blogger?
So I have to use something else and some links .. except there does not appear to be an obvious way of sharing on FlickR, as there is on say YouTube?
So here goes ..
Tiger Longwing Butterfly taken at Whipsnade Zoo's butterfly house ..
https://flic.kr/p/YCXwCe
Huh?! It refuses point blank to link the photo in, stating that a picture cannot be found from the shared link I provided?! Jesus Christ! Lol.
Maybe it is because FlickR is not owned by Google? Or maybe it is? Christ, they have bought so many companies it is hard to keep track!
A Postman Butterfly ..
https://flic.kr/p/Yqpwja
A Flambeau Butterfly ..
https://flic.kr/p/YqrxoR
An African Hunting Dog ..
https://flic.kr/p/YD4jBi
The real Wolverine ..
https://flic.kr/p/XoTZEi
A Meerkat ..
https://flic.kr/p/Ym9YV5
A view of the Chilterns
https://flic.kr/p/Y2Jy3Q
Getting a little more artistic now ..
A Bee on Rapeseed ..
https://flic.kr/p/Ya5Ffz
Ghosts at Sunset ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BNsU
Dark & Purple ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BHDW
Rapeseed in Late Summer ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BH2J
.. and again ..
https://flic.kr/p/X6BHgm
and lastly .. to top it off and for the first and second time ..
A Kingfisher ..
https://flic.kr/p/Y61JQS
Good god, that looks rubbish with just links! Lol.
I was with another chap when I got the Kingfisher and he was frustrated at how he could not freeze a flying birds wings when taking a photo..
..so I took his Canon and showed him how. He was extremely delighted he had bumped into me and mentioned it a few times before we both left. Lol.
Happy to be of service.
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