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Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 May 2012
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Thursday, 8 September 2011
More Cheese Gromit?
The zoom on my new camera may help to solve the mystery once and for all. Is the moon made of cheese? It appears not.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
London at Night
So yeah, I'm rather pleased with how this came out!
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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I've now uploaded the rest of the photographs that I took on this walk. So, here they are!....
Edit: I am going to keep adding night time photographs of London that I take. So in the event this post gets really long, please allow the photos to load.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
View original image
I've now uploaded the rest of the photographs that I took on this walk. So, here they are!....
Edit: I am going to keep adding night time photographs of London that I take. So in the event this post gets really long, please allow the photos to load.
Sunday, 28 March 2010
"Let's Move to Leek, Staffordshire"
In 2004, I moved with my family to the town of Leek in the county of Staffordshire. A quick geography lesson for those not familiar with the United Kingdom. Staffordshire is generally in the middle part of the UK, and Leek is at the northern end of Staffordshire. A drive to London, heading in a south easterly direction, would take (traffic pending) three to four hours. The nearest internationally known city is Manchester.....alternatively, visit maps.google.com and type in Leek, UK! (look I'm not doing it all for you OK!).
The other day, a person, who if they suffered from nominative determinism would probably have been a bowler in cricket (don't worry it'll make sense to them!) told me about an article that had appeared recently in The Guardian titled "Let's move to Leek, Staffordshire", which essentially sings the praises for Leek as a place to live, primarily because of its proximity to the Peak District National Park, and other treats such as a yearly double sunset (although in the years we have lived here, I don't think it's ever been sunny on the specific day, so the sun has always set behind closed curtains!).
A view of Leek with The Roaches behind.
Whilst it's nice to see Leek featured, I definitely think they could have chosen a better photo to show in the newspaper article. And so, with the aid of Google Streetview, I am going to do that for them, and give you a brief snapshot of the area.....So, off we go!...
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This is the where the pond-dwelling mermaid mentioned in the news article is rumoured to live.....
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Below is Rudyard Lake which has the claim to fame of being where Rudyard Kipling's parents met and decided they liked it so much, they chose to name their son after the lake.....
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Sadly, it's not possible to get a good "street view" of the lake (you need to walk around it), but here's a photo from ground level.
Finally, if you want to see what's going on in "downtown" Leek right now, watch the Leek webcam! (and be mesmerised at how little happens!)
The other day, a person, who if they suffered from nominative determinism would probably have been a bowler in cricket (don't worry it'll make sense to them!) told me about an article that had appeared recently in The Guardian titled "Let's move to Leek, Staffordshire", which essentially sings the praises for Leek as a place to live, primarily because of its proximity to the Peak District National Park, and other treats such as a yearly double sunset (although in the years we have lived here, I don't think it's ever been sunny on the specific day, so the sun has always set behind closed curtains!).
A view of Leek with The Roaches behind.
Whilst it's nice to see Leek featured, I definitely think they could have chosen a better photo to show in the newspaper article. And so, with the aid of Google Streetview, I am going to do that for them, and give you a brief snapshot of the area.....So, off we go!...
View Larger Map
View Larger Map
View Larger Map
This is the where the pond-dwelling mermaid mentioned in the news article is rumoured to live.....
View Larger Map
View Larger Map
Below is Rudyard Lake which has the claim to fame of being where Rudyard Kipling's parents met and decided they liked it so much, they chose to name their son after the lake.....
View Larger Map
Sadly, it's not possible to get a good "street view" of the lake (you need to walk around it), but here's a photo from ground level.
Finally, if you want to see what's going on in "downtown" Leek right now, watch the Leek webcam! (and be mesmerised at how little happens!)
Sunday, 24 January 2010
Did You Turn The Lights Off, Dear?
One website I have spent countless (literally hundreds I expect) of hours on is The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth site.
The site has nearly 800,000 photographs taken since 1961 available for viewing and I have probably downloaded for personal viewing a couple of thousand of these - there are so many spectacular images, each with their own unique quality that makes me gaze with curiosity. I couldn't possibly begin to sift through those I particularly like.
The image below is one I found recently showing the UK at night as observed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
“Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.”
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Photo number (Mission-Roll-Frame) - ISS016-E-27034
Caption:
A regional night time panorama of population centers in the United Kingdom.
The site has nearly 800,000 photographs taken since 1961 available for viewing and I have probably downloaded for personal viewing a couple of thousand of these - there are so many spectacular images, each with their own unique quality that makes me gaze with curiosity. I couldn't possibly begin to sift through those I particularly like.
The image below is one I found recently showing the UK at night as observed by astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
“Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.”
http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/
Photo number (Mission-Roll-Frame) - ISS016-E-27034
Caption:
A regional night time panorama of population centers in the United Kingdom.
Saturday, 9 January 2010
There's Snow Business Like Snow Business
Like so many places at the moment, Britain is currently in the grip of one of its biggest cold snaps for decades. Now sure, us Brits do love to talk about our weather, so I think deep down we're all secretly delighted that we finally have something worth talking about!
Now, whether or not it is Fred Barnard that we have to thank for the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words", this image below captured by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7th January 2009 at 11.50 UTC certainly echoes that saying. And those of you that know me well know that I have always had a certain penchant for these 'pictures' being of the aerial/satellite nature!
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response
If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, you can download this KML file to see the image overlaid on top of existing imagery.
Now, whether or not it is Fred Barnard that we have to thank for the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words", this image below captured by Nasa's Terra satellite on 7th January 2009 at 11.50 UTC certainly echoes that saying. And those of you that know me well know that I have always had a certain penchant for these 'pictures' being of the aerial/satellite nature!
Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response
If you have Google Earth installed on your computer, you can download this KML file to see the image overlaid on top of existing imagery.
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