rARsh!

It’ll all go tits up eventually, of course, but …

I’m concerned about the possible similarities between the election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency and the reaction to the election of a certain A C L Blair’s New Labour back in 1997. I seem to recall a similar feeling of elation and a belief that things could only get better … and look what happened.

That said, kudos to photographer Nida Vidutis for a series of images above which – if there’s any justice – will become as well known as the Dewey Defeats Truman photographs from 1948 – albeit for a different reason.

Hahahahahahahahaha

Seals, Stubby and a gap-toothed idiot

Looking at that photo I have to say that my Facebook friends may have a point after all.

Will you keep still?

Gimme!

That Happy Jack’s not one for sitting still. He’s due to be christened on Saturday but goodness knows whether I’ll get anything other than Jack-shaped blurs in photos. As you can see above, I did try my best to get a photo without using the flash but he’s just far to fast. You’ve got to admire the anti-redeye flash on the Ixus, though, haven’t you?

Anyway, after 16 failures I finally got a decent snap – thank goodness for digital!

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Betrayed

Feeling guilty? I don’t think so

I thought we’d sorted this out on Sunday. Never trust a mouse to keep his word, people.

At the Bishopric

An early morning beside the Wensum

Bishop and flock members

Around the bishopric

On second thoughts

Do you remember this post where I was looking for help identifying an old photo?

It’s taken three months to verify things but I can confirm that the slide

not Tintagel

is NOT Tintagel.

Tintagel

Bollocks.

Any other suggestions?

[Update: Croila's put forward Dunottar Castle as the location and I think she's onto something there]

Tintagel Castle is, in fact, a bit of a disappointment – there’s so little of it remaining. It’s not the easiest location to reach, either – just look at those steps!

From Tintagel I headed south as far as Saint Agnes, looking for the definitive photo of Cornwall – a tin mine high on a rugged clifftop – at Wheal Coates. The photos are going to need a lot of work in PhotoShop, though. It seemed a lot brighter at the time and I’ve had to tweak these quite a lot to get them as “good” as this.

More kudos

I’m being very generous with my kudos at the moment, aren’t I? Never mind – they’re well deserved.

Today’s “Jolly good show, chaps” goes to those fine folk at Baader Planetarium for their Microstage 6030.

Just to remind you, here are the best results I got from holding my Canon 850 up to the eyepiece of the fieldscope, taken last weekend at Minsmere:

Rather nasty vignetting, eh?

We move on, then, to the rear garden of Chateau Pops. Pictured below are the resized view from my position just inside the kitchen door and a cropped, 1:1 snippet from that photo to show the nest box (top right) and the frying pan cum birdbath (bottom left).

Now let’s see how I got on with the camera being held in place by the MicroStage 6030.

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