In Roman times, the Ides of each month were devoted to Jupiter. The plan for today involved another attempt to capture Jupiter and its moons tonight. The weather is not playing ball and so… 74 is the atomic number of tungsten. Tungsten’s many alloys have numerous applications, most notably in incandescent light bulb filaments. I …
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Danger, Will Robinson
New toys – Mr L intends these to trigger his electronics projects. Me, I want to paint with light. Of course the main use is in tormenting cats… O, the possibilities are endless. (apologies to those who saw the incorrectly uploaded image and now want to know how to torment a cat with a daff)
365:73
It’s [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day]Pi day[/url], allegedly. Of course, those of us who write our dates the correct way around might wonder what on earth they are on about. No matter, any day is a good day to doodle with the old Spirograph.
New toys
My Triggertrap Mobile dongle arrived today. Much fun lies ahead… once I figure out how to work everything. I’ve got the basic shutter release working and I have fired shots with a handclap. What I cannot get going is holding the shutter open. I may have my plug incorrectly connected. ETA: It was a simple …
365:72
According to Wikipedia, 72 is: In degrees Fahrenheit, considered to be room temperature. The average number of heartbeats per minute for a resting adult. The percentage of water of which the human body is composed. The life duration of the Human ovule, in hours. Here is a glass of water, at room temperature. This get …
Bus Stop
This is my trolley, waiting for the bus to arrive and take us to the ferry this morning. Not your average bus stop, to be sure.
365:71
According to Wikipedia 71 is: [i]The number of different characters that can be used with a standard English Keyboard, excluding uppercase letters.[/i] This however is not your standard keyboard. Not by any stretch. It belongs to my old man. Whizzy, is it not?
Goosestepping
I wandered out this morning to enjoy the sunshine and I took the new 105mm prime lens out to see what it could do. It was a very different experience. I like the extra reach but there were several shots that I could not capture, due to not being able to move far enough backwards. …
365:70 Three Score and Ten
Most Orcadians well exceed their allotted span on this earth so, when I betook myself off to Lady Kirk to enjoy the morning sunshine while I left my bread to rise and my laundry to wash, it took me longer than I expected to find a headstone with a 70 upon it. I could have …
Downy Softness
Too nice a day not to walk out with my camera for Spinning Group. I’m still very disappointed with my Tamron lens. More familiarity required, maybe. There was a patch of verge with feathers and down strewn about. I spent a while taking photos before realising there was a dead Greylag on the far side …