We visited Scampston Walled Garden, at the weekend, here are some photographs I took…
Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae
White tailed bumblebee - Bombus lucorum
these were taken with a mobile phone, not a DSLR with a macro lens!
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Back to Nature
Tuesday, October 1st, 2013Whoops!
Monday, September 30th, 2013
Old Photo Archive – Sony Glasstron Glasses
Thursday, September 19th, 2013After receiving an email from a friend, asking for a larger resolution photograph of him from the 1991!
I thought I would go back through the back catalog of unpublished photographs
Sony Glasstron Glasses
Sony Glasstron Glasses
These pictures were taken in 1999, these are Sony Glasstron Glasses, which projects a large cinema screen in front of the viewers eyes, I used them to watch DVDs on my portable DVD player, whilst community to clients site on the train. On two separate occasions whilst sitting in First Class on the train to Edinburgh, watching a DVD, a GNER Ticket Inspector interrupted me, and asked “which stop are you departing the train, so I can help you, Sir” – he thought I was blind!
Kenya holiday photographs uploaded!
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013The Kenya holiday photographs have now been uploaded to our Holiday Photograph Album.
or directly here :- https://andysworld.org.uk/album/Kenya/index.html
Lindsey has sorted, and out of the original 1000+ photographs taken, these are the best 40%!
These photographs are straight from the camera, and re-sampled and reduced for viewing on the website, so they are not the original 12MegaPixel images, they have not been retouched either!
These were all taken with our new CANON PowerShot SX50 HS bridge camera
Lindsey and Andy get smashed on Tej in Ethiopia!
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013This picture does not feature in the album, it was later emailed to me, by another group member! As you can see the flask is half drunk, and Lindsey has a smile on her face, so must be smashed!
Ethiopia holiday photographs uploaded!
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
Rock Churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia
It was not widely published, but during the month of March 2013, Lindsey and I went to Ethiopia and Kenya for our holidays, the Ethiopia holiday photographs have now been uploaded to our Holiday Photograph Album
or directly here :- https://andysworld.org.uk/album/Ethiopia/index.html
Lindsey has sorted, and out of the original 1000+ photographs taken, these are the best 40%! These photographs are straight from the camera, and resampled and reduced for viewing on the website, so they are not the original 12MegaPixel images, they have not been retouched either!
Whilst Andy was sleeping in the Ilkeliani Camp, Masai Mara!
Friday, April 5th, 2013Whilst I was sleeping, Lindsey took this picture, of a Robin Chat, it’s either a Rüppell’s Robin-Chat (Cossypha semirufa) or White-browed Robin-Chat (Cossypha heuglini).
Rüppell's Robin-Chat (Cossypha semirufa) or White-browed Robin-Chat (Cossypha heuglini)
Location of Ilkeliani Camp, on the Talek River - Masai Mara National Reserve
The Talek River was the location, that the BBC filmed Bella the Leopard in Big Cat Live!
and these pictures of me sleeping outside the tent, were taken at Ilkeliani Camp, Masai Mara National Reserve. It had been a long day, with a 4.30am start, and Balloon Ride across the Masai Mara National Reserve, traditional Balloon flight Champagne breakfast, followed by a long game drive until 4.00pm, and then Andy was knackered!
Note the banana skins left in the ash tray, later the Gibbons came, and s**t all over the porch and chairs, and sun lounger, and through the ash tray round the back of the tent! I forgot we were in Africa, and Wild Animals were around, you don’t get that issue in England!
It’s lovely this cake!
Thursday, March 28th, 2013I had ordered baked cheesecake at the Java Cafe, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Kenya – this was the slice of cake that Lindsey received!
There be hippos here!!!
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013The reason for the new camera, and lack of blogs in the last month, Lindsey & I have been on holiday to Ethiopia and Kenya (more pictures later!), but in the meantime….
here’s a photograph of yours truly! (spot the hippo!?)
In Ethiopia, we visited Addis Ababa, Bahar Dar, Lake Tana, Gondar, Simien Mountains, Axum, Lalibela and Wendogenet
Ethiopia Trip
took photographs of the following
• Tississat Falls – the source of the Blue Nile
• Castles of Gondar
• Spectacular scenery in the Simien Mountains
• Stelae of Axum
• Rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
In Kenya we visited Lake Elmenteita, Lake Nakuru, and spent several days in the Maasai Mara, on game drives, and hot air balloon ride across the planes of the Maasai Mara.
Kenya Trip
lots of photographs of monkeys, birds, lions, elephants, antelope ….
Andy’s got a new camera – A CANON PowerShot SX50 HS
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013Yes, I’ve purchased a new camera, A CANON PowerShot SX50 HS, and yes, it’s a “Bridge Camera”. A halfway house between a compact and D-SLR. I already have a compact camera, and D-SLR, so needed something in the middle, and this boasts a 50x optical zoom lens, equivalent to a 1200mm conventional telephoto lens.
I’m very impressed with the first photographs….(click for full image, straight from camera, no image processing, 12Megapixel – JPEG).
In this first photograph, if you look carefully, you will see our, two Doves on the chimney pots…
0x (no zoom)
in this photograph, at 50x (1200mm) zoom, handheld, no tripod, you can see the Dove, and also notice the lichens on the chimney pot!
50x Optical Zoom
I don’t know how this camera does it, holding a camera in my hand at 50x optical zoom, with Image Stablisation, and it’s able to give me good photograph, with my shaking hands! (I would recommend a tripod! but without, gives good results)
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