I'm stuck in the tardis

Ashmolean picspam

2009-11-08T17:40:34Z

A little bit late, but here it is.... Oh and I'm going back later on in the week. One day with camera (armed with 18-125mm lens), one day without camera.

Here i go again.....

Uber expensive this be -

From above -

From below -

The Ashmolean rocks!

2009-11-07T16:47:29Z

Though i shall be returning next week, as i forgot to take my 18-125mm lens and kit lens.
Flickr uploadr is being really slow today, hope i didn't kill my bandwidth last month with that flickr challenge lol.

One picture for now (picspam coming later) -

I've also murdered several beatles songs in the Beatles Rockband today hehe

A Month in 31 Pictures, Flickr style.

2009-10-31T12:03:45Z

Is a challenge that I have been doing via Flickr. The concept is simple, you take one picture for everyday of the
month. Mines a bit of a mixed bag. I offically ran out of ideas last night while in the Port Mahon waiting
to see Smilex play. I will be blogging about each photograph on my photoblog in the coming weeks.

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And that is the end, finally!

Picspam time.

2009-10-28T13:18:48Z

I have been a bit slack on the picspamming front of late.... I also need to start working on my next picture
for my photography blog.

Here i mango again again......

Soon.....

Today Kevin went for a walk down memory lane.

2009-10-26T13:57:37Z

I decided to take a walk down to New Hinksey Park and ended up by my old school (was New Hinksey First School, but has since become a proper Primary School). I did think about taking a lot more pictures, but i settled for two. It's changed since my days there. They've built new buildings at the front which means the little pond has gone. It did bring some nice memories back and not so nice ones.
Though to start off with i walked through new hinksey park (boating lake, then the big old stone quarry which is now a lake).
I had a memory flashback to the day we released frogs into the boating lake. Just small flashes of images, not my usual technicolour visuals.
My memories of those days are a bit hazy as I did block most things out around the time my grandmother died. Today was about trying to unlock memories. It's been a partial success i guess. I do intend on going back, as i want to cross the bridge over the lake and into hinksey village. I think it might be possible to get to bagley wood from there, i shall have to investigate it a bit more.
I feel content for the moment, before the awful things in my childhood happened (grandmother dying, great uncle having a stroke etc), i had a pretty good childhood. I was a lot more adventurous back then. I don't know what's happened to that really. I shall have to rediscover it with a trip to Shotover in the next few months (i wanna play in the natural sandpits). I also feel the need to do some walking with steep climbs, i haven't really done so in a while. So i guess a trip to bagley wood might be in order.

Some photographs from today's walk.

My old first/primary school

I remember that building well, it's got a funky attic up there. Stuffed full of interesting things (though i guess they might
have cleared it out by now) -

Now onto Hinksey Park (the back end of it). I used to race across this bridge. Spent a lovely morning or afternoon watching birds using my dad's binoculars during a primary school outing -

Those steps still scare me today as you can see the lake water below.

That pipe looks a bit smaller than i remember it, though i guess being 7 means everything is massive.

The boating lake where we released Frogs back into the wild and also scooped up Frog spawn in (and some from the big lake).

Oh yes there is a Church close by New Hinksey Primary School. I remember going to many boring services there, usually
for thanksgiving around harvest time.

And to finish off a duck and a swan in New Hinksey stream which is at the front of New Hinksey Park. I remember when somebody crashed a car into it hehe

Bumperish picspam.

2009-10-20T14:48:22Z

The weather has been quite foul today. Anyway a few pics from the last couple of days.

I swear this Swan was coming right at me, i've seen it attack other swans....

See what i mean about that swan....

This is what i do when i get bored....

2009-10-19T14:59:11Z

Go and join a queue for a John Barrowman book signing.

More here.

Oxford University Parks in the Autumn - picspam #2

2009-10-17T14:16:58Z

To escape the students i dived into the university parks.

Here i go having an asthma attack and still taking photographs....

I hate students - picspam #1

2009-10-17T14:07:55Z

Well not really. Well only when the hog all the paths and roads.....
Students are pretty much like Orcs at the moment.

Here i go again in holywell street (new college is around here somewhere).

16th October picspam.....

2009-10-16T19:27:55Z

Didn't really spend that much time on taking pics today. I was more interested in getting my hands on Brutal Legend (it's metaltastic).

here i go again.....

15th of October picspam...

2009-10-15T14:06:48Z

Well just 3 today (i deleted 30 photographs, i'm being quite harsh on myself at the moment).

Here i go again.....

14th of October picspam.....

2009-10-14T18:25:30Z

I'll be glad when this flickr adventure is over with (i was thinking about the 365 day thing, but erm no way).

I'm in a bit of a black and white mood again....

Colour time.

13th October - can't really call it a picspam.

2009-10-13T12:09:49Z

As i only have about 3 decent Photographs (i have a thing about the 13th, it makes me nervous. Though i don't batter an eyelid at
living in a house with the number 13 on the door. I'm odd). In hindsight i should have used my Nifty fifty lens instead of my
telephoto zoom lens when i was taking pictures of the radcliffe camera.

Oxford Narnia style -

Click click click.....

12th of October picspam.....

2009-10-12T17:10:18Z

Spent an hour in christ church meadow today........

Here i click again.....

A Saturday picspam..... candid style.....

2009-10-10T12:48:11Z

Light was alright today. Tomorrow might be a day of still life photography, if it rains as predicted.

Candid street photography time again.....

The French have invaded and set up a market *clutches his mighty english heart*

Picspam #2 - Autumny type stuff....

2009-10-08T17:42:17Z

I love Autumn, purely for the colours.

It's Autumn, not the fall....

Picspam #1 - Flowers.

2009-10-08T17:31:47Z

They are looking a bit worse for wear after yesterdays rain and the very chilly start this morning.
Though it's not proper Oxford bone chilling cold yet. I used my monopod today and I'm very pleased
with the results (as you will see in the second picspam).

Here i sneeze again.....

5th October picspam time.

2009-10-05T15:34:42Z

Managed to get out and about before the rain.

Here i snappy snap again...

Humberto must be colourblind ;-)

This is all about speed, not the fact that it was out of focus......

Peek a boo....

4th of October picspam.....

2009-10-04T13:31:21Z

I'd better buy about 30 blank DVD-R's tomorrow otherwise I'll be running out of space.

Here i swan again....

3rd of October picspam....

2009-10-03T12:05:54Z

Random shots of Oxford (yet again, i have no plans when i go out with my camera).

It was very windy today humph....

A general picspam of Oxford and the kitchen sink....

2009-10-02T15:57:04Z

It's getting chilly and i still can't find a proper coat for the winter grr.
Onto zee pics...

Here i go again....

The Kitchen Sink.

Flower picspam....

2009-10-02T15:42:50Z

Taken today in the botanical garden. This is the first of two picspams.

Here i sneeze again....

A swan picspam....

2009-10-01T14:59:29Z

I love swans, though i don't love getting close to them when they are in full on attack mode.

Here i swan again....

Some non swan pics...

So i went to Port today...... May include ponies.

2009-09-28T13:45:23Z

There and back in less than 2 hours, which is a record for me. Usually it takes me about 3 hours hehe
I had a comical panic attack on one of the rickity bridges at port meadow.
And yes Nadine that means it's "I can haz Pony pics" time.

Here i go again.....

The bridge of doom is behind that horse....

The less panic inducing bridge in the background....

Oooh Light.... picspam time.

2009-09-27T18:18:46Z

It was quite stunning today, thankfully most of the time the sun was at my back. So no overblown shots that i have
to rescue by turning to Black and white processing hehe I should have droped the ISO down to 100.
I shall be making the most of the sunshine while it lasts, gloomy Oxford is not far off i fear.

Here we go again....