Strumble Head

Finally my photos from Strumble Head lighthouse, Pembrokeshire from last weekend.

Friday sunset

Stormy saturday morning

It was very windy with the cold north wind hitting the north facing coastline, crashing waves smashing up a haze of sea spray. These pictures were taken from the relative shelter of an old military bunker turned birdwatching hide, it's a good angle, but would have been nice to find a new angle without risk of being blown off the cliffs.

South Wales

2 great days in sunny south wales friday and saturday..

St.Davids Cathedral

Ever present Porthcawl surfers.

Small Brained Tit

Quick walk down the cycle path this morning, glorious sunshine, none of the "everyone will get about 2 inches of snow" that the weatherman waffled about.

On the way back the bird feeding area (that locals have set up) had been vandalised, the branches broken and the feeders thrown into the canal. Most likely by 3 dumb-fk kids that had cycled past us.

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My lack of faith in humanity re-affirmed.

Micro Mov Revs:

10,000 BC - Rubbish, falls between being too silly for an adult film and to boring for a kiddy film. 4,000 out of 10,000.

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The Cottage - Unfortunately a bit cack. Gets better towards the end and some good moments, but just not upto par overall. More of a 1 bed terrace than a cottage.

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Nosferatu (1922) - Fantastic. Watched it in Corsham as part of a local village film festival and thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Into The Wild (DVD) - Brilliant. Loved it, one of my favourite films ever. Go watch it.

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ps. The dots aren't some mysterious morse code message - just Google seem incapable of writing a decent Blogger interface.

Mov Rev - Vantage Point

I was kind of disappointed with this movie, I thought I was going to like it because it had loads of my favourite actors in, but I just really struggled to like the rewind storytelling and to me the plot just served this effect rather than the other way around. No doubt if your two favourite TV moments are 24 and Groundhog Day you'll love it, but I just didn't. The highlight by far is the car chase, which shows the US can almost do as good as Bourne when they put their minds to it! ;o)

8:00:00 out of 12:00:00

Better than watching a scratched JFK DVD on a broken DVD player, not as good as flicking between Lost, 24 and Groundhog day for 90 minutes.

And to brighten up this post here's a bumble bee bum..

Frog overload

Frogs spawning on sunday down the Wilts & Berks canal, loads of frogs and loads of frogspawn already. Between cyclists going past they got pretty noisy too.
Croaking ripples.



Dreamy frogs (did this effect by accident and thought it looked quite good)

One Eyed Willy with the kids

Milking it

Another Robin pic and a trio of sunset photos over the River Avon and Wilts & Berks Canal.

Sunday around Swindon

A splash of colour provided by a trip to Butterfly world (and a curly sheep).

Saturday sunrise

Sunrise over a local ruined farm building (2 exposures combined).





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Hares tearing around Blakehill Farm. Watching them boxing was excellent, but they weren't close enough to take photos this time.

Speed Snapping

Finally some daylight left after work, time for some quicks snaps..
A male Bullfinch..

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..and some beautiful eletricity pylons (about as scenic as it gets within 10 minutes walking distance from home).

RIP Tiddles

June 1988 - Feb 2008

Blakehill Farm

Quick visit to Blakehill Farm wildlife reserve sunday, on the site of a world war 2 airbase it makes for a pleasant wander.

Somerset

Medieval tiles from Mulchelney Abbey (below), relocated to the church after the abbey was destroyed during the reformation.

Part of the ceiling of St Peter & St Paul church, Mulchelney.

Burnham Hovercraft Rescue service whizzing about in front of Burnham lighthouse.

Truck Stop

Quick snap of a trucker waiting at a lay-by fast food van that I quite liked.

Mov Revs

Cloverfield - HDR in movie form. From the dazzling highlights to the deep lowlights, the contrast of this film makes it quite difficult for me to tell if I liked it or hated it overall. I did like the beasts and the effects are stunning, but the characters and action interspersing scenes just missed my interest zone completely. Switching from fantastic action to waffly and boring scenes makes for good dynamics, but for me just watered down the experience.

$9million out of $15million.


Juno - Excellent. Just about on the American Beauty side of the chick flick border, I think it's safe for me to say it was great! Good storyline, great acting, well cast and well put together. If it kept me interested and entertained then it's done a good job as I was expecting to stereotypically not like it. Recommended.

$6million out of $6.5million.

Another World

Visited the Steam museum in Swindon yesterday and thought it was excellent. Not quite as I imagined it, but lots of interesting glimpses into a fascinating period of time. Didn't really take any steam engine photos, but plenty of great details, textures and period curiosities.

Ticket machine.

Boiler rivets.

GWR (Great Western Railway) bridle, looking like it's straight out of the wild west.

The Magneta Time, battery-less clock.


Clocking in/out board.