WOW! Found my way back into Blogger!

No idea how ... iMacros had corrupted my login script - after upgrading to a new PC - and I have forgotten my password! Somehow it linked me back in.

Had a pretty dry spell on the photography front for over 12 months, thanks to various illnesses, hospital admissions and mobility issues ... even thinking of getting an electric buggy to get about better (aka 'at all'!).  Did make it out last week - typically with only a 55-250mm zoom - and ended up doing a few 'unintended' macro shots ... I swear, I did NOT see this creature through the viewfinder - though it has been cropped quite a bit!!!

[Original full-frame shot]

Longton Brickcroft

A very short trip to the Brickcroft before the weather turned rather ominous and all wildlife was scared away by a number of dogs and there walkers 'bounding' round the site (the dogs, that is!).  One day I will buy a book to help identify some of the plants, but until then I shall just have to grab the odd photograph, and guess that this is a Common burdock.

Another day indoors (must buy some waterproofs!).

With the weather dismal, and forecasts for severe winds and 20-40mm rainfall over the next 24 hours, our workshop stayed indoors (again) and we made the most of taking abstract/macro photographs of the artwork available to us in "The Space", Cannon Street, Preston.

Here are just a few of my shots (credits to the original artists will be added next week!).

Macro work

Another dull and wet day and nothing for it but to hit the 'macro' button and search my flat for interesting subjects. With musical concerts on the horizon (yes, I sing in a choir), I had numerous musical scores to hand and, with my trusty 'choir pencils', decided to set up a 'still life' study, illuminated entirely by daylight coming through my lounge window.

Just going for a leek !

This weather is chronic - just constant drizzle interspersed with rain!
So the photography is all indoors, on macro or 'super' macro..........

I am rapidly running out of fruit and vegetables with photogenic properties so here is one of the seeds in a red pepper. (I really must switch the crock-pot on and eat some of this stuff!).

Still wet out - try some fruit !

Pineapple close-up

and even more 'close-up'

Yet another wet day

More vegetables / still life / macros

Another Wet day

Mushrooms

October is here and so is the rain - torrential at times - so it has been another 'indoors day' for photography and a selection of still lifes. Fruit and vegetables, to be precise, most at either the 'macro' or 'super macro' lens setting on my Fujifilm FinePix S602 Zoom. Lighting was a few 'warm' fluorescents and all images were recorded at ISO 200, f=2.8 with exposures of 1/8 to 1/30 secs.

Still not getting out much (although I did go to buy a new 'Freeview' box Saturday). So today was spent looking for something around the flat that might make an interesting shot.

Eventually I noticed that the sunlight was catching on my "Silver Chairman's Award for Innovation" that my former employers had awarded me a few years ago, before terminating my employment with them for repeated absence (due to prolonged medical problems).

Not to dwell on the matter, this 'thing' (about the size of a house brick and made of solid glass) has been 3-D laser etched, internally, with my details and the subject of the award and also with a full 3-D representation of the Globe - see below - remember, this is 'inside' a block of glass - I have 'Paint Shop'd the rest of the glass away .