Category: quota photo

Quota crystal ball photo

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Having given the crystal ball an outing in the Derwent Valley in Derbyshire last month, it seemed only natural to give it a go in Newlands Forest this morning.
No, I’m not quite sure on my thinking there either.

Anyway, here you go:

It was a wonderfully clear day, and – perhaps predictably for a forest – our view was only obscured by trees. Occasionally, we escaped these arboreal obstructions and this was taken at one of those times. Readers willing to go the extra mile will be able to zoom in and see Cape Hangklip in the magical glassy globe, and that’s some 60kms south east of where we were.

More photos of the day can be seen on Flickr.

Fire Sunset

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A large veldfire in Rondevlei Nature Reserve this evening made for a superb sunset over Cape Town.

In this hastily-snapped phone pic from our bedroom window, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were looking at the fire itself. But no. That smoke is coming in from the left of shot, and all the orange you see is setting sun.

We left the firefighters to their valuable work and headed off for a very decent meal at The Avenue, which, once again, comprehensively failed to disappoint.

Dew

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Another tired Sunday evening (albeit a fake one), another morning on the beach, another fish and chip lunch and another long journey back to Cape Town.

It all adds up to another quota photo.

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This was the dew on the Restios in the back garden this morning. I crouched in wet sand amongst wet plants to get this picture.

I’m really not sure why I do this kind of thing.

String

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I was playing with the camera this afternoon. Later in the evening, I wasted loads of battery life with a failed intervalometer experiment.
We live, we learn, we drink more wine.

Previously, I inadvertently ‘togged some string.

Ripe for thinning.

I took some other stuff as well, but that’ll have to wait until we’re back in ADSL land.

Wait til you see my moth. Seriously.

New Brighton Light

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After Liverpool’s dramatic win last night, something scouse seemed appropriate. This is almost scouse.
The New Brighton Lighthouse in Merseyside doesn’t work anymore – it hasn’t worked for over 40 years – but that doesn’t stop it being photographed an awful lot. That’s probably because of its proximity to semi-human habitation, being right at the mouth of the River Mersey.

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Alternatively, you can grab a quick shot from the other side if you’re passing.

Either way, when you’re a bit short of time and you need a quota photo of a lighthouse, New Brighton features at the top of the quantity and, fairly often, the top of the quality scale as well.

Note the Liverpool Giraffe Sanctuary in the background.