2008 Photo Review (PT4 – October to December)
October
I was having a week off work and I decided to visit West Midlands Safari Park. It was really enjoyable, even if a camel did try and give me a kiss – and, although many animals try and lick my camera when I’m using the fisheye lens, the camel is the first one that I thought could have eaten it! This fellow above was just too cute and lovely really.
The giraffe were very good at analysing the cars to work out if they were going to get any food or not and wouldn’t even bend down to the window to check cars that they thought wouldn’t yield results.
I remember these cows near Curbar Edge in the Peak District – they were initially quite cautious then just thought sod it, and came over to investigate what I was doing at the wall. I’m glad the front of the fisheye lens is reinforced and coated (because you can’t really get filters on it due to the extreme wide angle). It seems to have coped with multiple cow lickings over the last few years! I’ve just got visions of a future repair sheet with ‘cause of fault: cow spit corrosion’ written on it.
“I have a problem with my camera – sometimes when taking landscape shots a donkey appears in shot”
I went for a walk near Chrome Hill in the Peak District and one of the nice things about that area is that you can hear the occasional donkey braying which according to wikipedia can be heard over 3km away from it. It is funny walking for hours, hearing them but not seeing them until much later or not at all.
The shot above was difficult to take because this one was in a field next to a road with a steep incline next to the wall on my side, so I had to position myself in an awkward spot where I wouldn’t fall. The focus on this shot is on the landscape in the background which led to the title.
November
I took very few photos in November. I think the combination of short days and foul weather were the main factors in that. The shot above looks blurry because it was raining and I couldn’t keep the lens clean enough for long enough to avoid it. The photo was taken at Alport Castles in the Peak District. The people are from the Nottingham Flickr group. By now, we have got in to a routine of having a group walk day out once a month, and the weather doesn’t seem to be putting them off – which is good.
December
The photo above shows the trig point at Kinder Low in the centre. The walk from Hayfield up here and back was long, difficult, but fun. It was difficult because everything had frozen so extra concentration was required with footing to make sure you stayed upright – and it wasn’t just at the higher levels either – the roads around Hayfield had multiple ice patches when we got back just as it was getting dark. Despite the extra difficulty, I love the Peak District in the snow.
On a trip to Howath in Yorkshire which is famous for the Bronte Sisters, this donkey ornament pulled me towards it when I spotted it in a shop window. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it, I just knew that I had to have it. I suspect that it will crop up in the odd photo here and there!
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Pab Assci Artness 12:17 pm on December 23, 2008 Permalink |
Dave – a photoDog sos I mean a Holy Cow and Sheep photoGod
Go photo Dave