Faded Glory

Poor moth-eaten rose. I bought some reduced price flowers at the supermarket yesterday. With this weather, it’s good to have something to shoot in the “Studio”. It’s amazing how the camera shows every flaw – so happy this is not my face! Experimenting with flash coupled to low light long exposures for saturation. Photography is …

365:143

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalia_(festival) [i]In the Roman Empire, Rosalia or Rosaria was a festival of roses celebrated on various dates, primarily in May, but scattered through mid-July. The observance is sometimes called a rosatio (“rose-adornment”) or the dies rosationis, “day of rose-adornment,” and could be celebrated also with violets (violatio, an adorning with violets, also dies violae or …

365:142 By the most tenuous of connections…

Back-blipped Yesterday was fraught. We went to town. I took the camera. The day was busy, unproductive, cold, grey, windy and wet. The camera did not see daylight expect to snap my knitting for my blog as we travelled to Kirkwall. I thought that Day 142 was a blob. Happily I found a tenuous connection …

365:141 Unidentified caller

Snapped through the (sorry about this) mucky glass of my bedroom window. I thought it may be a Chaffinch but now that I see the photo, it looks not a lot like [url=http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/chaffinch/index.aspx]the RSPB says a Chaffinch should look[/url]. Perhaps it’s a Juvenile. Anyway: 141 is The telephone dialing prefix for withholding one’s Caller ID …

Some experience needed

Purl 15 together – no fun

365:140 Char

140 char. The subject for today’s 140 handed on a plate. I’m not very twittery. More of an automated tweeter, really. Not sure I ever “got” the concept. Just put me under the heading of “permanently confused” It’s good to have a day that requires less thought. Am feeling below par and not apt to …

365:139 Selfie

May 19 is the 139th day of the year (140th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 226 days remaining until the end of the year. Amongst others born this day, a motley crew: Pol Pot Ho Chi Minh Nancy Astor Malcolm X David Jacobs Alma Cogan Edward de Bono James Fox Pete …

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Just messing

Mr L is cooking me a special dinner today and I am banished from the kitchen end of the house. I’ve been spending my time taking photographs for my blog at Sanday Spinners. I really ought to be thinking about what to do for [url=http://www.blipfoto.com/nybblets]my 365 project[/url] but I have not got that far yet. …

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It’s not much of a photograph, I know – but the image and my posting of it are appropriate for today – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day The theme for this year’s World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is [url=http://www.itu.int/en/wtisd/2014/Pages/theme.aspx]Broadband for Sustainable Development[/url] This is an issue that is so important for a community …