I've just been given my grandad's old camera. It's a Voigtländer Vitoret with all the trimmings. A beautiful old thing. Just loaded it up with some ILFORD FP4 black and white film. My grandad apparently saved up for a…
DD365
The ‘DD365’ Category is all about me trying to do a post every day throughout 2013 starting Jan 1. I’m going to try not to make it too “Here’s a blog about my lunch” but I can’t guarantee it’ll be entirely lunch free.
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Grandad Skelton's camera
Titus SaltToday we went to one of our fave indoor places in Yorkshire. Salts Mill, Saltaire in Shipley. Titus Salt who built the place in the middle of the 1800s was quite an amazing fella. Whilst a lot of his contemporaries were…
FamilyI had a message from a relative in Ireland - Mrs Hughes, aka Nana that there perhaps wasn't enough about our family on DragonDrop.org at the moment. Quite right -here's a family special, blog post! The first thing you…
These four wallsI could quite get used to this forced chillax. I'm not sure for how long, and I do pity those folk who have to stay in bed for weeks on end, but as I'm only 48 hours in, the novelty is still overriding the potential…
vestibular neuronitisTurns out, I've probably got vestibular neuronitis according to Dr. Leech, which is giving me vertigo. It's an inflamed bit inside my head near the bit that governs balance. This kicked in late yesterday afternoon.…
Airfix fixRelived part of my childhood today and introduced Jaygo to the joys of model building. So far, built a cockpit and painted a few parts. A fun thing to do for a bit. It reminded me of all the fiddly itsy bitsy hobbies I…
SnowdropsI saw my first snowdrops of the year today. It's the third earliest sighting I've seen of the snowdrop since (DragonDrop.org) records began - the earliest being January the 19th. Typically they're the first common wild…
- Bit of a cop out
This blog post, although it's only just begun, I predict will be quite a non event. I've condemned the thing before I've even finished the first sentence. See, even though I've got ninja time management skills, some…
An odd findNearly every morning, I take the dog for a walk across a 200 acre open parkland called The Stray in my home-town of Harrogate. The Stray carves a big arc around the town centre. It's kind of an inner green belt. It's a…
Pancake dayShrove Tuesday, another of those religious events that's been adopted by the general populous, like Christmas and Chocolate Sunday (er, I mean Easter). Mardi Gras, meaning Fat Tuesday is often a huge festival, starting…
StrobographicA couple of week or so ago, a friend said on Facebook "Just found a strobe light, anyone want it?". I did, I got it. Thanks Mr Pilchards. I'd discovered the joys of strobography beforehand. Over the course of several…
Further experiments in LomographyUnexpectedly, I got two disks in the post this morning. A couple of weeks ago I'd posted a couple of film off to be processed - one of which, I'd forgotten about for years. The nerdy short-hand of what's going on here:…
Heroes Square BudapestThis was shot late last night and immediately dispatched to DragonDrop HQ, via the medium of twitter; @ dragondrop -Dragondrop Adventures reaches Budapest — Ben Osmond (@benosmond5) February 7, 2013 This is the 85th…
- The fight scene
Embedded video " HUUUURH! where is this young gallant that is so desirous to lie with his mother earth? " is a line from this scene in The Abbey Shakespeare production of…
- Chrome OS install - aborted
I've been trying to get a version of Google's operating system : Chrome OS working. Failed. Google themselves only support it when it's on either a chromebook or a chromebox - specially built Windows rival computers now…