Chez Spud

Well a bit over a year but let’s not split hairs shall we?
Year Two of the 365 Photo A Day project is, frankly, a bit of a challenge. I’m really struggling to get enthused about it and it’s feeling like such a chore at the moment that I’m thinking of giving up. Gasp. I’ve been [...]

Happy New Year all you lovely lovely people! It’s not too late to join in with the Blog Camp 365 project over on Flickr.  Please do join us, it’s shaping up to be a really friendly and diverse group. What better way to quickly improve your photography but just taking ONE photo a day….c’mon, you [...]

It’s still snowy. What to shoot but lovely pal Pig Woman Jan…she’s not a pig but she is a woman and her name is Jan. She stables her horse on the farm where we live and we joint owned the pigs with her and our neighbour, who owns the farm. Much of her pig is [...]

Day 3 of The Big Freeze in the UK. I’ve taken around 1,000 photos of which pretty much none are anything special. Why is snow so hard to capture?  Quite apart from getting the white balance right, I’m drawn to trying to getting the ‘whole’ to get the scale of how much snow we have. [...]

Next year I’m buying Christmas cards in packets. Or going pagan or something. I am NOT ever ever ever attempting a Christmas Card Photoshoot never ever again. I really thought I’d get a cracking shot this year. I finally kind of know my way around a camera and the boys even have nativity dressing up [...]

Pink, as suggested by The Wife….tough assignment, not much pink in a house full of boys!  Anyone fancy suggesting a theme for next week?

A mere 17 hours after I received A Sign that I should blow a load of cash on a new camera…she arrived. And here she is, my [not very] little bundle of joy….my D700 accessorised with a Big Fat Lens.
Since the incident of the Disappearing Wig back in the summer, Andy the Postman can’t be [...]

Ooooh I do love a good omen…a little sign sent from someone, somewhere, unseen and unknown…a little nudge, a suggestion, a message.  I should have been born in Roman times, I would have loved all that mucking around with sacrificial entrails and pondering the flight of birds to get a handle on the will of [...]

Bertie Showing us how Buster Pants, originally uploaded by Busters Mum.
Love that photo above, taken by my Dad’s wife. Love how Bertie is trying to impress us with his impression of their dog panting…meanwhile I’m ignoring him and taking photos of the dog….and Trudy has focused on me, not Bertie, in this shot. WAAAAH! Poor [...]

Stuffs hands in to mouth trying to stop self wittering…presenting muted (geddit?) yellowy tones: