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Blown out, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

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Spitfire, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I think, I like the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine as it drags a Spitfire out of a dive and into a climb, more than any sound I’ve ever heard.

Except maybe two Rolls Royce Merlin engine’s doing it, or maybe even four.

RAF Marham Friends and family day 12 August 2010. suddenly just for a moment, it was 1970 and I was five again.

Cloisters, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I’ve been blogging lazy lately, lack of time, distractions, things happening, being tired by the time I have the time to do it, usual stuff. But I’ve just purchased a 50D, I’m now dying to get out and start taking photographs again. We did make a foray to Ely cathedral, but in my haste to get the camera productive, I missed one f the mainstay settings, and ended up with some rather fluffy photos that I wasn’t happy with.
This comes from a batch of shots at the weekend at Norwich Cathedral, sadly the main building was shut due to an event, but the cloisters were open which allowed me and my trusty son to saunter about and snap a bit. I’m quite happy with this one. almost balanced, but not quite, at least it’s sharp. One thing I have realised now is, My lenses aren’t all that, and I probably need to get a Caon walkabout instead of my Sigma.

Arrows, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I seriously love this photograph, it’s the red arrows, it was just the worst weather possible, I may have blogged it before, but I’m doing it again, because it’s probably my favourite photo I’ve managed to squeeze out of my camera.

dunes, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I just thought I might as well put it up here.

contrail, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I like these little silver lines in the sky, I know there’s too many. My son used to call them “Buzz Lightyears”.

bird, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

An angry tit to be precise, something I get accused of being too, usually by mrs V.

He was angry about a cat though, not the price of shoes.

thought I’d try something slightly different to see if it would nudge me out of the incapable of taking a decent photo coma I’m in.

mono sea, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

Pretty isn’t it. bit Sugimoto.

Sheffield, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

I’ve had a fling with this Car Park for a while, and I can’t help but go back and take more photos of it when we go up to Sheffield and indeed poke about through old ones I’ve taken looking for ones I might have missed like this one.
It does appear in this photo to have all the thought of a nasty forklift accident in a supermarket warehouse, but i love my geometrics, which is something to do with my day persona which is at least in part graphic designer type person. I spend a lot of my time making round things fit into square things and so on, and then being told by clients to put them back, or move them three mil to the left or right over and over again, but it does all tend to hinge on things being more or less lined up with each other along various planes, I realised the other day how obsessive about compositional position I can get, straight horizons, exact-ish fractions of a frame, this doesn’t do that, it is like looking into a pile of really smooth aluminium boxes, which is exactly what you are looking at, although someone has cut them all in half and attached them to the outside of a car park. It’s nickname is “The cheesegrater”, you’d need some pretty large cheddar.

Dan le Sac and Scroobius Pip, originally uploaded by osborne villas.

a couple of years old, worth the effort to dig out and muck about with I hope.

The photo is a couple of years old that is not Scroobius.

I ain’t gonna take it no more…