Coincidence?

Several years ago I was driving along the M6 (south) and listening to the radio. The programme was about Sir John Betjemen and in particular his love of the architecture of English churches.
He described his favourite, and having actually met the architect responsible for it. He described what this guy looked like, saying the man was quite old, with white hair, and bore quite a resemblance to Col Sanders.
As he uttered these words, I overtook a car with a registration plate that ended KFC.....

This week I was driving to work, and listening to The Tony Kornheiser show on podcast. Their film critic was discussing the new Farrelly Brothers movie, The Three Stooges. At the next set of lights, while the discussion was still underway, I came to a stop behind a car with the licence plate II MOE.

Should I worry that somebody is messing with me?

Stealing Home

There are only seven plots in the whole world for stories. Or so we are led to believe.

There must also, therefore, be a finite number of photographs to be taken. That's my excuse for stealing, er, creating homages, to images I see elsewhere.

This week I saw a set of mono images of animals in Amateur Photographer, and was struck a) how nice they were, and b) how many animal images I had in my archive that I could 'tart up' to look like art. Or at least an approximation of it.

Here is my flickr photostream set of the ones I edited.

Mono Animals

Flickr dicking

Just been adding a few more images to my swifty.pics flickr photostream.

Swifty Pics Photostream

New Personal Best

Cemaes Bay to Wilmslow, 65.7mpg. A new PB by 0.1 mpg.

This included a stop to feed the birds at Cemlyn Bay, and at McDs for refreshments.

A fine week in Anglesey, with great company. The weather was a bit pish, but hey-ho, that's the north west of the country for you. 

Often the weather is changeable, so if dreich day can end up being very nice indeed. I always get suckered into thinking that a nice day is ALWAYS going to end up providing a beautiful sunset. What I see on many occasions is the sun dropping out of a cloudless sky into a large bank of cloud looming on the western horizon.

I went to try and capture a nice Anglesey sunset yesterday, and on the way stopped for a couple of "grab shots". First of a standing stone, which I contrasted with Wylfa Head power station out on the coast.

Stopping at the roadside usually frightens off any animal life....not in this case

I liked the backlit sheep against the ruined windmill, but didn't have the time to find a particularly good composition. 

When I arrived at Church Bay, I could see that although there was cloud about, the horizon was relatively clear. The downside was that the only part of the horizon with a problem - for me - was the rain shower that looked like the sun was headed for.

This time I was lucky. The rain must have moved to the left as the sun dropped to the right which provided me with a decent image to end the week with.

Disappointing that the sun didn't light up the underneath of the clouds and reflect in the pool I'd identified in my recce as a decent spot, but nice to see the sunlight pick up the rock and the nearside bank of the tide pool.

I love being out at the end and start of the day, and every so often you see something beautiful. Something even a hamfisted amateur like me can capture.