Segway

For part of my Dad's birthday present the whole family went on a cross-country segway experience. Here are the photos and a couple of videos of the event (sorry about it being in two parts, I am very new to working with video)

Winter Wonderland

I entered a photography competition for the local paper in Kenilworth.  The competition was entitled 'Winter Wonderland'. Readers photographs are being printed over a couple of weeks, before they announce the winner at the end of the month. Last week I managed to get one of my photos printed.

Yup, that's it, the snowy pine tree, right the centre of the page!

70th

This is another post where I am trying to catch up on things over the past few months.

In mid December my Dad celebrated his 70th birthday and had a bit of a gathering for family and friends at the Saxon Mill near Warwick.  It was a lovely day, good company, good entertainment and good food.

Wishes and Falcons

There is quite a bit that I need to write about in my blog, so bear with me and hopefully over the next few days/weeks I will get everything covered.

Firstly I would like to thank my friend Vicky for including my blog link on her own crafty blog page!
I find it really interesting to find out what other people are up to.
Here is the link to her page: Alexandra's wishes
I will be posting (possibly) some photos from the annual fancy dressed pub crawl at some point (when my film is finished and photos printed).

I recently had two photos put onto the main page of the kayaking club for Oxford Falcons. I often take my camera to races and if I am lucky, I come away with a few good action shots.

I will be updating things about Christmas things (well birthdays really), later this month.

"Hello GoPro"

One of the things about having a friend who is a very keen photographer is that, sometimes, if you are very very lucky they may lend you one of their cameras. With the camera in a large bag I currently have 6 pages of typed instructions, 5 different camera cases, at least 4 different types of mount and a few cables. How many cameras do you know of that need to have their own bouyancy aid? "Hello, GoPro".

These are the photos (and 2 videos) from two days of kayaking with a GoPro in tow (well stuck to the boat). As with all photography we are always striving to do something different - to get a different angle to promote interest.

 

Tom's video clips:
K1 200m sprint

Tom and Jamie K2 200m sprint

Sorry Mum and Dad, I can't come home today because..... (2010)

I am not certain this is my car

this is the road out of Bicester

I have run out of bread for my sandwiches

I can't actually see the road

there is lots of snow on my driveway

and around my car

I am lost

oh, maybe not

it is still snowing

This is a series of photos that I took last year and uploaded to Facebook. Strange to think that a year ago people were mass buying bread from Tescos and struggling to get anywhere.

(And one for luck)

November

November is over and I guess that it is time to let you know how last month's photographs went. I was having a simple competition with Tom to see who could take the best photos for a month. His underlying reason, was to try and get me to take better photos.

The competition well and truly failed after Tom managed to take 1 photo on day 1 and that was it. I continued to take photos throughout the month but have once again slipped into the process of taking a photo merely for the sake of taking a photo.

I am now halfway through taking a photo everyday for a year. Things are slowly improving, the number of blurred and out of focus photos has reduced as I am now spending just a few seconds more retaking a shot.

Here are my favourites from November