Went over to Keynsham to get pix of the 'Earl of Mount Edgecombe' steam train. Picked a good spot on the platform. Man about 10 feet away and standing back as I was. As the train came through the stupid basket stepped forward about 5 feet and complately blocked my chance of getting a pic. The loco was going so fast by the time I got forward as well it was gone by.
I was fuming but said nothing to the little swine. As a consolation I went back via Woollard and Publow. Got some shots with my Sony A350 that has been converted to take infrared pix.

Went up to Nailsea to get shots of the "Devonian" After the disappointment of the Bank Holiday run it was nice to be able to get some steam pix without too many people there.

Jiggling pix

I found an old slide, probably 40 years old or so. I took the pic on the down road to Washford from Raleighs Cross on the Brendons. I tried to scan it but it was very spotty so I jiggled it to a simulated water colour using PSP 7.
When I went digital I had gone to the place to take new pix but the trees had grown so high along the slopes that it was impossible to see the view It was looking down from the B3190 towards Leighland Chapel at around a hundred yards or so down the road from Raleighs Cross Inn. .
Fairly easy to do. First reduce the size of the pic to around 200kb. Save this as a seperate pic to work on. Go into PSP 7 and select "Effects" then "Noise" and choose Salt and Pepper filter. Set to around 5 pixel size and study how it has worked. Adjust to larger or smaller pixel sixe, to change the way it goes.
Save the reult and then go to "Image" then "Resize" Pic around 300 pixels per inch and do not allow the new dimensions suggested but save the image to about 8/9 inches on the longest side.

High tide

Went for a visit to the seafront Sunday morning to try an experiment. I took pix at around 1/15th of a second hand held.
The Sony "steady" helps a lot. Wind was around force 5 to 6 and the waves a little splashy. It was slow enough to show movement and blur but I was able to hold to get decent focus on the pier legs and the rocks. Quite a cold wind and I was glad to finish and go home for a coffee.

Horses

Went along to the Hand Equestrian Centre when they were doing jumps.



Took over 100 pix in around 30 minutes. This one has had 40+ views on Flickr in a couple of weeks..

My second book cover use of pix via Morguefile by our local civic society for their new book.

The Scarlet Pimpernel are out and showing well. They have spread quite a bit from last year. I pulled a sprig and put in the flash-box. took some pix of the flowers and then saw they had a greenfly on them. Tokk a shot of one of the seeds as well - only about 3mm in size.