To help carry the shopping back from Pocklington this winter, I’ve purchased….
I just hope it snows, so Lindsey and I can go sledging this Christmas.
We visited Scampston Walled Garden, at the weekend, here are some photographs I took…
these were taken with a mobile phone, not a DSLR with a macro lens!
After 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I thought I would go back through the back catalog of unpublished photographs
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!
The 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
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 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).
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!
The 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
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.
lots of photographs of monkeys, birds, lions, elephants, antelope ….