We’ve had a tiny round cactus plant at home for about five years or so now. I think it probably came home with us as one of a pack of tiny cacti from Ikea. I’ve never really bothered with it and it normally sits, out of the way, on a book shelf, at the back of the kitchen. It’s in a really good warm, light position.
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We went back in to Bristol yesterday to meet up with my daughter, Zoe, and three of our grandchildren, Ewan, Barney and Toby, with the intention of visiting a few more Gromit Unleashed 3 Sculptures. We decided to go in to the Clifton area of the city and pick off the five figurines located there.
Continue readingMy in-laws, David and Donna, visited us this weekend so we decided to make the short drive over to Wales and spend Saturday on the River Wye, canoeing from Huntsham Bridge back to Monmouth.
Continue readingTina hosts this week challenge (here’s a link to Tina’s original post) with this brief – ‘Show me some of the things you’ve learned about photography or any subject you choose.’ That throws me straight in to this image which I took last week….
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Gromit Unleashed 3 came to the streets of Bristol, UK at the end of June and runs through until 31st August 2025. Its the third time the characters, created by Aardman Animation, have popped up on the city streets to help raise money for The Grand Appeal, the Bristol Children’s Hospital Charity.
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After a disappointing month for sales in January, things picked up in February and I returned to my rough average of about 10-15 sales per month. On a negative note, I also had a problem with a Alamy’s exclusivity rules and they fined me $150.
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I created my blog, primarily to write about my photography but I’m going to stray off topic, from time to time. Photography is only a small part of our lives so I want to record a few other things which happen to us occasionally. That leads me on to my ‘Spotify review of the Year, which landed in my email box this week.
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I had a bit of a shock earlier this week when I logged into the blog and saw the last article I’d posted was back in 2011, thirteen years ago! It was that long ago I’d forgotten I had a WordPress account and rediscovered my old blog whilst trying to set up a new blog….
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Having attended the Lovegrove studio workshop three weeks ago I set up a photo shoot of my own last weekend to see if I could put into practice all that Damien had shown us on the course.
Continue readingFollowing on from my entry in the ‘Amateur Photographer of the Year’ competition the short listed entries for the ‘This is Britain’ category were published in The Sun newspaper last week. The couple sat on the chairs in the rain on Weston beach is my effort.
Steve Hyde 