Family, Photography and other misc news
Family related posts; generally only of interest to fellow members of the Brown Clan and relations by Marriage into this mad house.
Today was a quick trip across to Chesterfield and a family get together.
Over the course of this month it is Alan’s, Caroline’s, Angela’s, and Roberts Birthdays.
So a meet up, lots of cake, and fun and games with the Children and of course Tilly & Molly the two Labradors.
This week, it is my wonderful wife’s birthday. We are taking tomorrow off work to go out for a nice meal.
As promised I have the DVD’s you wanted but did I get you an iPad? You will just have to wait and see.
Lots of Love from all the family.
PS for Photographers out there, buying your partner some nice flowers also gives you the opportunity for you to practice your still life techniques. Just don’t tell them!
A day out at Whitby.
It’s the start of Whitby Goth Week and I am not sure but the Photographers may just out number the Goths.
As always the outfits are fantastic and whole family’s get involved.
With so many Photographers, Goths, Steam Punks & Emo’s not to mention lots of bikers clad in black leather (not us this time thou), I am not quite sure what the ‘Normal’ holiday makers made of it all!
If you are going to Goth week during March or later on this year in the autumn, remember to treat everyone with respect.
Today we had a trip across the North Yorkshire Moors and spent several hours at the Ryedale Folk Museum.
William Hayes’s (1871-1940) Photographic Studio has been moved there. It’s the oldest daylight lit studio surviving. His studio still has his large format camera with 7.5 inch portrait lens and his dark room is also there.
The studio was set up in 1902 in Monkgate, York, and moved to Hutton-le-Hole in 1911.
In many ways its not much different todays studios, a selection of cloth backgrounds, props, but instead of flash, a side wall of glass and a glass ceiling.
The Museum opened in 1964, and the original exhibits comprised of the private collections of Wilfred Crossland, Raymond Hayes and Bertram Frank.
If you are ever near Lastingham, try the Blacksmiths Arms, good beer and fine food.
Game terrine starter, belly pork, black pudding and a bottle of fine red wine. Glad I was not having to drive.
If you are ever in the area do pop in to the church. St Mary’s has a wonderful crypt well worth a visit.
We have decided to have a long weekend of photography.
We will be spending Friday to Monday in North Yorkshire and we will be visiting as many local National Trust and English Heritage properties as we can.
For you gear heads we will be packing just two Digital SLR’s with a Nikkor 12-24mm f/4 DX on one and a 24-70mm f/2.8 on the other. We will also be packing our Medium Format Kit (Hassleblad) and a good heavy tripod.
I’ll be blogging when I can using WordPress for iOS using the iPhone, but due to the very rural nature of the area’s we will be stopping in, Wi-Fi and even a mobile phone signal for voice, never mind data, will be extremely limited, so i’ll be updating these posts during the following week and uploading more photographs.
Friday consisted of a trip to Nunnington Hall, a rather fine country house, with lots of willing Peacocks all trying to impress.
I had a Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 on the camera but a long lens was fortunately not necessary as the birds were extremely tame. In fact one Peahen walked up so close I thought she was going to peck the lens.
This weekend will also be the time I’ll be testing GPS4Cam. A piece of iOS software for the iPhone which Chris Bennett uses and has reviewed on his site.
I’ll possibly not get round to posting many photographs until Monday so I’ll update these posts then.
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Well, I managed a full week at work without being admitted to hospital, yeh!
We are both feeling much better. Caroline had a hospital appointment this morning and was given the all clear, while I have my MRI Scan next Wednesday, to make sure there is nothing seriously wrong.
I must admit the hospital were amazed that two members of the same family were admitted to hospital within two hours of each other with different medical emergencies.
All of this means its now been three weeks since I rode any of the motorcycles or have even driven the car. I am not too bothered about the car, but its killing me not to be riding my bike.
Hopefully I’ll be feeling up to it soon.
I was planning a photoshoot this weekend, with a top London Model, we have been trying to make our calendars match now for a couple of years but we both have very busy schedules.
Instead I might have a search round for some spring daffodils and practice my flower photography some more.
As you can see here I still need more practice.
As today was Ethan’s birthday we all had a quick family get together. Ethan was lucky enough to get lots of lego for his birthday which Uncle Martyn was happy to help him put together.
For the last few days I have been trying out my Aeropress coffee maker. Not exactly an expresso but not a french press either.
I have been using the reverse method to make coffee, and I have to admit, it does make wonderful coffee, and it is ideal for an office environment. Easy and quick to use and very easy to clean afterwards.
I can definitely recommend it. I think I like the coffee from it better then from my home filter coffee machine!