First December snow

In Amberley Close, hopefully it won't remain with us for very long! we had hoped to go through to York to shop fr some Christmas Presents that we can't obtain in Hull as they are sold out already.
The above photo by the way was sent directly to the blog from my new Camera Phone!

A new toy

In the form of my first camera phone! It's a Sony Ericsson K771i, with a 3.2 megapixel camera and I have been very pleased so far.
The first image is of Fungi growing on a stump near the bus stop, came out rather well, I thought.


I took it into the town centre and really enjoyed shooting away with a camera that seems to pass un-noticed when you use it!
Here's a shot of one of the Street Vendors.

It seems ideal for candids and using as a notebook, and there is enough in the way of definition when working a image sizes suitable for the web, as shown in this pic of a seasonal shop.



And this one of the Santa figure in the window

Camera Phones really are great for this sort of Photography, and with the provided 256 Megabyte memory card it has a capacity of over 300 photographs!

Naturally you can't do a lot of cropping on an image of so few megapixels, and it doesn't have a zoom, but then this does mean that you have to be more careful in framing the shots to make maximum use of the available image area, and that can't be a bad thing.

Slightly better weather for a couple of hours!

The weather has really been atrocious this last few days, but today it cleared for a little while and we went for a run onto the moors, and had lunch with our friends in Castleton. I did manage to get one decent photograph, and it is of Fryup Dale.
I was hoping to take more, but as usual the weather closed in and put a stop to that idea!

Bonfire Night and lovely weather!

The last couple of day have been rather damp with a continuous fine but very wetting Drizzle, so it was a real challenge to get decent shots!

In total I took 16 shots, but only three were passably sharp, despite the Nikon D60's vibration reduction system, it couldn't of course cancel out the fact that the people moved during the necessarily lengthy exposures.

October sunshine

I went for a ride on the Honda Dylan this afternoon, seeking the elusive autumn colour that has kept me on the lookout now for over a month.
Amazingly out in the country there is still little sign of Autumn, though the odd tree here and there is showing some signs.
However there are other opportunities and here's one.

Beverely Minster looking at it's best under a rather pale sun: the quality of the Fuji S9600 zoom lens comes into it's own when dealing with all that fine detail.

5th September 2008 and Rain, Rain, Rain!

Today has been the most dreary of days, weather wise, since it has rained almost the whole day, not including the whole previous night!
Here in Hull we were waiting to see whether a flood warning would be issued, but perhaps surprisingly the day passed without this happening, though there's no doubt that the city's storm pumps were working at full capacity!
We took the opportunity to renew our season passes to "The Deep" (Hull's aquarium) and I played around with using high ASA (3200) on the Nikon D60. It was then processed in Imagenomic noiseware community edition and the reduction of noise without much detail loss was very impressive.
And since we all need cheering up after the appalling weather, here's a pic from Whitby on a better day.

31st August 2008: Last leg of the journey home

The overnight temperature had fallen sharply, so we woke to a heavy dew outside and a thin fog, but we were up and away by ten past eight and for once there were no accidents (despite the normal number of lunatic drivers on the motorways)
We made good time and reached home for half past one, even though we had two long breaks for a tea break and lunch on the way.
Looking back on the holiday we had mixed feelings, certainly the weather had been pretty poor for much of the time, but against that we had had some good days, enjoyable meals and pleasant visits to National Trust properties: while it hadn't been optimum, it hadn't been a disaster either, as we say in Yorkshire: "It were fair to middlin'"