Kite

Red Kite near Lampeter.  Fuji F11

16th December 2012

Today while riding shotgun in the van, I managed to capture a picture of a Red Kite out of the window as we were on our way back from Lampeter.

Although it was not flying fast, it was plenty fast enough to make capturing a picture difficult!

Welsh Hills

Welsh Hills.  Fuji F11

15th December 2012

I realised that I have not posted many landscape photographs on my blog.

I am on a trip to Wales for the weekend, so thought it was an opportune time to start to rectify the imbalance.

Its all a load of baubles really

Christmas Tree.  Nikon D7000

14th December 2012

We have a real tree again this year and the kids had fun decorating it the other week.

We have kept it watered and so far, the needles seem to be holding well.   Hopefully it will last into January before the branches start to bend and dump all the baubles in amongst a heap of pine needles.

There is a lot to be said for fakery, but plastic trees are just not the same somehow.

The Advent of Choclolate

Advent Calendar.  Nikon D7000

13th December 2012

As the kids are just over halfway through their advent calendars now, Christmas must be getting close.

The advent calendars are good training in self restraint; if the rule was that they could not eat the chocolate until after their breakfast, I am sure one of the kids would have opened all the windows and devoured the lot by now.

Testing Testing, one two one two one two

Microphone in Low Key.  Nikon D7000

12th December 2012

It had to be done: as the date is 12/12/12.

The day was bitterly cold too but the freezing fog from overnight has lifted, leaving a fantastic hoar frost.

Frost.  Nikon D7000

Crescent Moon

Moon, Star and birds at dawn.  Nikon D7000

11th December 2012

Today started nice and clear and the crescent moon was still visible at dawn this morning.

Two birds flew across as I took the picture too, adding a few more points of interest.

Long Face

Pan Handle.  Nikon D7000

10th December 2012

Today I thought I would try to capture another slightly abstract image of an every day object.

I noticed that the handles on the pans are very 'face like', but with rather a long nose.

It was also a bit of practice in lighting; I used a brolly on the right and a white reflector on the left to give some highlights to help define the shape of the pan.