Fancied some HDR.. so here we go. Some recent pics from the weekend Gayle came from France and we explored London.

Gayle wanted to go on the London Eye.. i’m not particularly good with enclosed glass pods you are confined in for 45 mins, but i braved it. It really didn’t help that they called it “your flight on the eye”… including the word “flight” doesn’t ease the stress. I had to have an ice cream to recover.

Spokes.

Westminster from the Eye - HDR.

Busbee

I haven’t blogged in ages, party due to laziness, partly due to being ill (i like to believe it’s mainly due to the latter but i fear that’s wishful thinking). One of my big problems is that i take a lot of tea breaks in a “working” day, and then there’s the lunch break, and then a break for neighbours.. and then the afternoon murder mystery marathon etc… it’s a hard life.

I’m making a website for a young musician based in Poole, who I did a photoshoot for too. These are some of the shots.

Stroll along Bournemouth Beach

Playing in the Sacred Heart

Inside Sacred Heart Church

Spanish Serenade

On Sandbanks

I'm walking awaaayyyy....

Sea, sand and guitar..

Dom HDR

Black and white

Sandbanks beach

Very rock 'n' roll

Last of the collection

So a couple of weekends ago I went to the lovely Devonshire countryside with my Mum to stay with some good friends and their gorgeous grandson, Callum. I remember seeing him when was just 1 week old - he’s 5 now! Doesn’t time fly?

Anyway i got some nice ish shots, although probably not my best.

Callum playing in the sand.

the lil fella!

Ma mere sur la plage.

Finally started taking some more pictures, although one of my camera lenses is broken grrr.. a taxi driver tripped my wheelchair into his cab, and my camera (around my neck) smacked me in the face, and my face broke it (yes this is not a lie). Oh well!

I’d like to point out that taking this picture was quite lethal for me - it’s steep and cobbly and my wheelchair started skidding. Luckily i didn’t roll to the bottom - although there was a slight temptation to just see what happened…

The lovely famous hill in Shaftsbury, Wiltshire.

I like the yellow, that is all.

My sister Alice got engaged last week!

The happy couple!

Went out with Tom at the weekend. He thought it would be funny to take “au naturale” pictures of me - I decided to post-process one. At least i can say it is a true reflection of me - i wasn’t doing a false smile! Not quite sure of the expression - i think i was mid smirk. Unfortunately i don’t always look like my Twitter profile picture.

Au naturale.

Now he WAS posing...

Had a rather interesting weekend up in London on a Godly front, was very refreshing. Got some nice shots about town

Gloooomy

Had a lovely Christmas this year… spent it with the whole family in Dorset. You just can’t beat my mum’s Christmassy efforts!

Decorated in style :D

Christmas at home.

Yes, it is me.

I went away with my family for a few days to Belgium… i very much enjoyed the Eurostar experience, as the disabled seats are in first class! No complaints there! I got to speak some French, and eat way too many chocolates - reckon gained about 3 stone in just 4 days! Chocolates for breakfast… lunch…. tea… bedtime… midnight snack…

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

This church was lovely.. i really like the stonework and doors..

No smoking ban...

My Dad in Brugges

Today i went to an absolutely wonderful wedding - Naomi and Dave’s. It really was lovely to be there, and share the day with the happy couple. This morning the weather looked a little onimous with rain, but on the way to the wedding the sun was shining just in time to set the perfect autumnal scene.

Hand in hand...

The happy couple!

The best wedding bouquet i

I am feeling mildly guilty i haven’t posted much lately. A lot has been happening this end, and i just haven’t had the time to spend with my camera!

This picture is actually an oldie, but i do promise to post some new ones soon!

Glooooomy

The beautiful Charis enjoying a cocktail at Tom’s birthday meal in central London.

The drinking a cocktail face!

My good friend and guitar hero buddy, Ross.

My guitar hero nemesis!

So i went to London this weekend for my brother’s birthday. I was going to stay longer but things didn’t quite work out as plans changed etc, but i’m glad to be home.

We went to a place called “Jerusalem” in Rathbone Place, W1. It was nice, the food was good and i managed to order a cuppa when everyone was ordering coffee, so all in all, a good eve!

Using a class, candle and sugar to make fudge.. it was very waxy...

2 of my brother’s housemates…

A sly look of love ;)

Perhaps not the most exciting photo in the world, but i like it. Maybe it is because the hands belong to my mum, and since i love my mum, i automatically like the photo? Who knows!

Worn with time and wisdom...

My best French friend Gayle came over from France for a weekend with her boyfriend, Benoit (Buddah). It was great to see them, especially as we’d had a death in the family, so their presence was a breath of fresh air :)!

Putain de merde!

It’s been ages since i’ve last posted. I haven’t had the best of weeks, but i will refrain from the blog burdening! Took this ages ago at after a website meeting in Boscombe.

I’m not sure what you call these things? I am sure there is a name, but unfortunately it is beyond my vocabulary.

I liked the sky..

I took this about 2 weeks ago, and haven’t got round to uploading it yet. Here goes!

Cloudy yet calm...

Managed to escape out Saturday evening for a couple of hours over to Adam’s before the clan left for Benicassim. Lucky sods! Got a few cool photos and really enjoyed the company, even though i wasn’t drinking.. see it is possible!

Hello... flip-flop calling...

Bit of scrumpy!

Morggina..

Quite possibly the cutest lil person ever! Katherine and Rich, two really good friends of mine, have the cutest baby son, Barney.

The cutest lil monster!

Went out snapperooning in Poole last week, don’t ask me the day. Got a few good shots, so here they are…

Lady contemplates at Evening Hill...

Sunset fishing...

I’ve been working on designing a website for a project called “Time to Change Dorset” for a while now, and finally the website is up and running www.timetochangedorset.co.uk .

To help promote the campaign, and the website, Time to Change Dorset turned up at this year’s Beach Live festival on Weymouth seafront last weekend. The weather was glorious, i managed a tan (well i had a white strap mark from my watch) and i also met up with my good friend Chris afterwards.

The day didn’t go exactly to plan, and i did end up gatecrashing some great friends of mine who have the most gorgeous son.

All in all however, the promotion of Time to Change was a big success! I acquired some free beer mats which i intend to place in all the local pubs to help promote the cause. Any excuse for a pub crawl!!!!

Did you know that?

Promoting the campaign...