funkypancake

things haven't gone great with the upgrade, so lots of things aren't working. oh well. i've spent 12 hours solid sitting in front of my computer trying to fix it, and it's time for bed !

(apologies - still upgrading. things going particularly badly. things are gonna look weird for a while i think)

just so you know, i'm going to attempt to upgrade the blog today, so apologies if things go wrong. i'll let you know when things should be done. expert weird behaviour in the interim !

update: things are taking much longer than i expected !

(demonstrating the compression effect of a long focal length - yawn!)

any idea what these are for ?

Our friend Ian put on a gig on Tuesday night. i was in charge of live sound, and audio and video archiving. unfortunately i stuffed up on the audio archiving (i can give you a load of excuses if you want), but i did manage to get some good headshots of the band.

i've been experimenting a bit more with people shots, so this was an ideal time to try a few different things. these have had quite a lot of post-processing.

i've created a little Dolly Varden page with Lightroom here if you want to see them bigger

here's an action shot of the band in motion. they were very excellent by the way.

i guess it's not always slippy.

another day another thames path walk

more geocaching (three passed, three found)

more didcot power station

plenty more walking

even more didcot power station

more gorgeous scenery (this one spotted by kezia who asked me to take the photo

more pollution (and cheap boating gloves)

more lovely bridges

and more upmarket pill boxes

more pooh stick bridges (in fact this is home to an annual pooh stick competition which happens every year)

and plenty of lovely churches (although this didn't have any decent hassocks)

back to work today. humph.

it's a funkypancake 3d wobble landscape picture.

it's half term week so i've taken two days off work so we can crack on with the thames path.

we picked up back where we started off in lower radley, this time heading for culham lock

i liked this stretch as there was lots of variety of countryside - woods, open farmland, a town (abbingdon shown above), posh houses on the side of river ... and geocaching opportunities

it was also nice to see didcot power station on the horizon for much of the walk. i love it's dramaticness and electricitynes.

usual signposts along the route so we didn't get lost.

we were joined by Mike and BR this time too which made our party to 8. here are some signs.

kezia befriended some snails about half way round so carried them the rest of the way. she liked their wigglyness.

ooh. another sign.

we're back to the path tomorrow to pick up where we left off.

mmm. think we might be getting hooked on this. we passed 4 geocaching points on our thames walk yesterday. we found two and failed on another two. the problem of doing them in the middle of a 7ish mile walk is that you can't stop for an hour and do a thorough search. but it helped break the walk up and was all good fun.

here is esther with one of the caches.

and here is a bridge where we didn't find one.

we met this chap yesterday at the end of our thames path segment. He is walking the thames for the Institute of Cancer Research and kindly let me take his photo.

we had our harvest thanksgiving service at church yesteday. then we went for a walk with friends to a vineyard where there were plenty of grapes. and a bee

living exhibits

paul took us geocaching with a proper satnav. here he is with the cache.

here's a tap fitting which roves the country

here they all are on their way

and finally, we also found our first microcache.

it was sophie's 30th birthday party last night.

no smoking - does that includes hats ?