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A few more photographs taken at Snelston Hall on Monday 16th August 2010.

I'll call this one "Eye on the Fly" it was rather a fluke really to capture this, the mare was being very skittish and moving around almost constantly and being very protective of her foal, I was taking photographs almost constantly to get a shot of the eye.

A nice side view of the mare, notice she is constantly being bombarded by flies, they are the black spots seen around her head.

A collage of the mare and her foal.

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Orchids

Wild Flowers and other stuff

A couple of collages from my visit the the Pleasley site on Thursday 10th of June with members of Derby City Photographic Club.

I would expect that in the next few days if we have some sunny weather there will be a lot more different varieties to see at the site.

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This is a collage of some of the diverse sculptures seen at the Chelsea Flower Show on Friday 28th May 2010.

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There is something magical about walking amongst Bluebells, their varietal colouring and such a wonderful delicate perfume too.
Photographs taken in Calke Park on Thursday 6th May 2010, collage created in Picasa 3.

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This is a collage of snowdrops, a drippy leaf and winter aconites seen at Hopton Hall here recently, made more interesting because there was still snow on the ground. Well worth a visit.

N.B. photographers please take something warm and waterproof to lie on, as it gets very cold down the whole of the front of your body. I came back with wet knees and muddy elbows, as my plastic sheet wasn't quite long enough.

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Snow photographs from around our village on Sunday 21st February 2010. By the time I went out on my walk at approximately 8:10am the thaw had started and the trees had shed most of their covering of snow.

This is a High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) of the Old School House in Aston on Trent, covered in a mantle of snow. Dull sky I am afraid this is as it was, no colour.

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So here we are in the Highcross Leicester, click here, it used to be called the Shires for those persons who have not been to Leicester for a while. Neglected to pick up D-SLR cam on the way out to the car so I was, this time, only equipped with my hi-tech carry about all singing all dancing phone.

We have in this collage top left interesting shapes, colours and forms in the Triumph shop, middle top interesting discs, rather like CDs and DVDs which change colour depending where you are situated in the mall and the light being reflected from them.

Bottom left a view looking towards the entrance to the John Lewis store interesting shapes in the structure and the etched designs in the glass panels. Middle image is a view of the etched glass from within the John Lewis store. The image at the right is looking along the first floor to the right of the JL store.

The middle bottom image is of the three security/cleaning contingent that stood adjacent to me.

This montage is another selection of images from Highcross. I am very amused with the striking colours and shapes that I was able to experience and capture. The middle bottom image was taken in Gallowtree Gate.

I spent over an hour with a specialist trainer in the Apple store, top left image. I thought I was up to speed on using their phone. My eyes were opened to a lot more to what can be achieved with it.

Middle top is my lunch eaten at "EAT Ltd" which consisted of shredded beetroot, peas, broccoli, muki beans, goat's cheese, sweet potato, spinach, mung beans, sunflower oil, Chardonnay vinegar, honey, sunflower seeds, pumpkin kernels, pine kernels, lemon juice, brown sugar and black pepper. All in all a healthy dish followed with a bluberry topped yoghurt.

In a word scrummy!!

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PRESENT A PANEL

Thus is a collage of the Derbyshire Snow Scenes that I entered in the Derby City Photographic Club competition on Monday 15th February 2010. The judge commented that he felt that there needed to be a little more detail in the snow areas of the images. He wasn't too pleased with the image top right, he felt it needed the horizon to be lower and then it might have fitted the panel layout better.

The original photographs were taken from Curbar Edge in the Derbyshire Peak district, on the morning of Wednesday 30th December 2009 at approximately 9:45am.

Having sat in the car waiting to see a sunrise for what seemed hours, a sunrise wasn't seen because of the blizzard conditions. The only thing that was evident was the whooshing noise of the ice particles hitting the drivers' side windows and it building up in interesting patterns on the glass.

Had to bite the bullet eventually and with hood up, gloves on and camera stuffed inside my Berghaus coat wandered on to the edge, the ice particles were blowing horizontally and stung any exposed skin.

So the photographs were taken in blizzard conditions, something the judge had no conception of, I hope you...

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A collage of a few photographs that I took when in Birmingham on Saturday 13th February.

Bottom right, a mid afternoon snack of raspberry cheesecake and a large hot chocolate in Debenhams.

Middle left, what I was given to believe was Rackhams, not any more, it is now House of Fraser. Showing a display of Valentines day gifts.

Top centre, entrance to the Bullring Centre from New Street Station.

Left bottom, is an external shot of Selfridges store front with the amazing disc patterns.

Top right is a stylishly dressed middle aged lady and companion buying Valentine cupcakes in the Bullring centre, recovered this image after the store security made me delete the photographs that I had taken inside the shopping mall.

Bottom middle, an intriguing lampshade which was above my head when consuming my Sushi lunch, top left in the collage.



And this delightful young couple, with love and happiness in their eyes popped in front of my camera and without me asking, posed for this photograph.

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These are some of the emblems worn by Karate Kid E. He has invaded my workspace for a couple of days and he is making great progress in his training, he now has his yellow and white belt.

His most liked activity at the club is "Learning New Moves" some of the moves are hard to learn, however he is trying very hard.

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Couldn't resist taking photographs of these two today. Orange being my favourite colour.

Comments on what they are please on the back of a postage stamp.

I'll post the answers in a few days time.

On the left are the guards for a hair clipper and the item on the right is for brushing of loose hairs, used by a tonsor.

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This was lunch today, no cooking at this place tonight, we won't go into the reasons why. The aperitif is tomato juice which has become a staple for me, as no alcohol is to pass between my lips.

The egg needs to be runny, this takes me back to my toolmaking days when one of my workmates, Gordon, was telling me that if his wife cooked him an egg and the yolk was hard he would flip it off his plate onto the table cloth. How horrible is that eh?

So underneath the runny egg is a delicious 10oz gammon steak, chips and a salad smothered in salad cream of the 57 varieties type, as is the tomato sauce. You know what I mean don't you.

This repaste was partaken at the Woof and Quack in Shardow.