The backlog of unsorted photos has been building up for a few months now, so I decided it was about time I did something with them. A selection from our September trip to Lisbon is now on Flickr…
Aah… sunshine!
Didn’t do a huge amount over Easter… I’ve been pretty busy over the last month or two, so it was good to do some concerted idling (as opposed to my usual random bursts of unplanned idling) and enjoy the weather.
Such was my idleness, I can’t even remember what we did on the Monday, but I know we spent a pleasant Sunday lunchtime in the pub garden, followed by a walk to nearby Nonsuch Park, once home to Henry VIII. Finding the service wing of the current (Victorian) mansion open to visitors, we did the local history thang… I don’t know whether it’s a sign of age, but I found the minutiae of Victorian middle-class domestic life uncommonly intriguing!
It turns out that the partly neglected mansion (owned by a consortium of local councils) is up for sale, and conversion to a luxury restaurant or leisure club must be a possibility. In a borough like Sutton, which grew around the railway and the post-WW2 housing boom, even a neglected stately home is a rare treasure… to restrict public access in any way would be a tragedy, especially with its new-found potential as a museum of Victorian life. (More info… Save Nonsuch)
Saturday… saw the Oscar-winning (at last!) Scorsese film, “The Departed”. Verdict… well, it’s pretty good as gangland grudgefests go, but it’s almost like a Scorsese self parody, and probably not Oscar material. Naturally, he should have won the Oscar for “Taxi Driver” or at the very least “Goodfellas”, but of course the Academy doesn’t work like that, does it?
Friday was the most active day, featuring a sun-drenched walk through the Surrey hills between Dorking and Leatherhead. Spring was at its most glisteningly fertile, and I even captured some moments for you via the medium of photography…
As mentioned a few days ago, we recently went to Hungary. I’ve now edited the 260 photos down to a “for the family” set and an even smaller “for everyone else, particularly those with short attention spans” set. The latter is here…
(The usual Flickr advice applies… ignore the slideshow feature, as the pictures are too small. Click on the first picture, then navigate by clicking on the thumbnail pictures in the top right-hand corner)
Well, I intended to do this weeks ago, but time management isn’t one of my greatest skills. Still, it’s better late than never… a selection of photos from our recent trip to Australia is now up on Flickr…
As usual, if you want to see the details of each picture, *don’t* use the slideshow facility. Just click on the first picture in the set display and then follow through the set, using the “next” thumbnail in the top right corner.
I like to keep my Flickr pages up to date with a selection of my latest photographs (yeah, apart from the Australia ones… I’m horribly lazy, I know) and almost all of those photos were taken with the same camera, a Canon A70. It’s a little outdated now (Canon have updated that subsection of the Powershot range a couple of times) but its 3.2 megapixels and range of features are still perfectly adequate for me. I crave much more than point-and-shoot snapshot capability, but I’m not keen on investigating the arcane world of SLRs. Or, for that matter, any additional features/settings that could unduly interrupt the process of capturing a single moment in time. Of course, if you’re taking a photograph of a well-positioned Renaissance church, time isn’t so important (unless the weather is an issue) but most situations involve some sort of movement.
However, that was just a brief aside about why I like my camera. I’ll get to the point.
Browsing the files on my mobile phone the other day, I realised that there were 130 pictures on the memory card. Apart from a couple of isolated examples, I’d never exported any of them from the phone. So, partly as a backup precaution and partly to see what they’d look like on a big screen, I shifted them all into iPhoto and then uploaded the highlights into Flickr.
Go and have a look… they’re all collected in the “Phonecam” photoset.
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