A Slice Of Your Life 04/06/18 - 10/06/18

[Phil]

Week 3.

Show us what you're up to.

[Korky]

Right now I'm up to thinkin' about the dreaded Monday morning supermarket run - is it worth taking a camera? Probably not!

Korky

[Korky]

A walk around town this afternoon.. just strolling and snapping all the things that every town has.

A Pub - this one's a good one, real ales and ciders, no music, no gambling machines, no smiles from the bar staff and no paper in the toilets. They used to have a parrot until someone complained about its language.

 

A Market -  All the usual gubbins: spanners, drills, CDs, over-ripe fruit, cheese, chicken and chutney. Oh and there's big knickers. Very big knickers. Just there on the left!

 

Entertainment - Here's a traditional Lancashire Morris Dancer dazzling his audience (see reflection)  with a spot of gurning.

 

 

Ahhhhhhh - home at last. Time for a sit in the peace and meditation garden to enjoy a cup of camomile tea, a chocolate muffin and two Diazepam.

[Ryewolf]

Today's been mostly about doing paperwork ready to give to my accountant later this week, who so happens to be based in Chorley so I might have a wander around Astley Park and Hall before heading back to Accrington. I did do a late afternoon bug hunt and spotted some of these Red-and-black Froghopper - Cercopis vulnerata. The problem with macro is your subject is likely to walk, fly or jump away just at the moment you get them in focus...

Red-and-black Froghopper - Cercopis vulnerata

[Clicker]

Chomping on my breakfast  ,... looking out  of the kitchen window .... Woody  looks like he's doing the same thing  !

Mine didn't  consist of fat balls though ..... I hasten to add ....

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[Ryewolf]

A late evening out to Whalley to hunt for bugs or watch birds..

Spotted this extremely rare Double Headed Gull Catcher.... (I've only ever heard about them...)

And a more rather mundane rabbit - though it does look like it's missing a sizeable chunk from it's ear....

[Korky]

On 04/06/2018 at 20:30, Ryewolf said:

 I might have a wander around Astley Park and Hall 

Thursday or Friday afternoon perchance?

Korky

[Korky]

A quiet week indeed - nobody's doin' nowt!

C'mon, somebody must be doin' summat. Or are you all just watchin' daytime TV and givin' it big with the internet bets?

Korky

 

[Phil]

Just 2 night shifts to go then (hopefully) back to normality.

I was determined to get out for an hour last night after work, so I grabbed the drone and visited Wressle, a small local village.
That's Wressle Castle in the BG, my intentions were to do a fly-by and grab some footage, the castle is only open to the public one weekend a year, which, coincidentally, is this coming weekend. Now, the only access is via the riverbank, and as you can see there were quite a few cows about. I have a particular aversion to cows following an incident some years ago where myself and the family were charged by half a dozen, I'm not sure they would have taken kindly to a buzzing drone so I wasn't prepared to venture any closer. Of course, I could have flown there from where I was stood but that would have meant flouncing the law, the drone would have been beyond line-of-sight which is illegal, being a responsible law abiding citizen I wasn't prepared to do that. 

[Clicker]

Love the birds eye view you get with a drone .... 

When you said you were charged previously by some cows .... I thought  that was out of order ... you should  have got in for free !! 

 Erm .... yeah it’s awful innit?

[Korky]

Yeah, great shot with the drone - does it save still images in RAW or are you stuck with JPG?

Cows can be vicious sods if approached when they have young calves with them. Although they're usually docile, they protect their young just like most animals. There have been a number of recorded instances of ramblers being killed by cows.

Have a sken at this from East Sussex County Council

Korky

[Phil]

1 hour ago, Clicker said:

Love the birds eye view you get with a drone .... 

As you can see from the image, the area of East Yorkshire I live in is very flat, no hills for miles, so it does make a change for me to be able to get this perspective.

1 hour ago, Korky said:

does it save still images in RAW or are you stuck with JPG?

It'll do both. I don't bother with the Jpegs, DNG only, although the dynamic range isn't great it does give some leeway for PP.

[Ryewolf]

8 hours ago, Korky said:

Thursday or Friday afternoon perchance?

It's gonna be Friday, planning to get to Cafe Ambio in Astley Park by 1pm.

[Korky]

1 hour ago, Ryewolf said:

It's gonna be Friday, planning to get to Cafe Ambio in Astley Park by 1pm.

I'll PM you tomorrow morning.

Korky

[Black Pearl]

A mate texted tonight as I was driving home asking if I wanted to go out and photograph a filed of poppies - turned out nice

[Clicker]

Glorious image ... there is little more uplifting than seeing a huge expanse of land covered in a blanket of red poppies.. a scene that lasts for just a few days normally. I defy anyone not to associate the scene with “Flanders “ and “ At the  going down of the sun...we will remember them “. 

Poignant image Beepy ...

[Ryewolf]

Just a walk in the woods yesterday, Robert 'Parsley' Peel set up a calico printing mill not far from here, a descendant later went on to become Prime Minister....

[Ryewolf]

Today's wander in the woods....

(Click on Image to see uncompressed version)

Some backlit Nettles...

A bit of DCM - Deliberate Camera Movement (f22, iso100, 0.6 sec, -2/3rds ev with an ND filter)

[Korky]

I spent yesterday afternoon, well a fair bit of it anyways, just listening to some music (I gave the Drill a miss and went for something a little more melodic) and watching some very interesting clouds waft by. Shall be employing a similar tactic for World Cup avoidance 

Korky

[Clicker]

Looks as if a little whirlwind has just blown through that cloud ... but strangely... there is a calmness emanating from it, it’s almost soporific.  Still I’ve no doubt I’ll be able to get the same effect watching England play ....if the past 50 years is anything to go by ....

 

[Phil]

The oldest daughter is up from London for the weekend  

[Korky]

A couple of shots from my afternoon spent with Rye will appear shortly - just as soon as I've rested my back injury from using Rye's macro setup.

I now know what you bug hunters have to do to get those macro shots and you now have even more of my admiration.

Korky

[Clicker]

Gosh she looks like you Phil....   proper chip off the ol’ whatsitsname...

[Korky]

It's arty, it's farty, it's a little bit Chinese. It's........ DCM 

It woz Ryewolf wot made me do it, guv. Honest!

Korky

 

 

[Ryewolf]

Ohhhh, now I really like that, I'm now wondering why I haven't got a shot like that...