Year in pictures part 2

May

In May we went to Carter's Steam Fair in Holyport. I had high hopes for some semi-darkness long exposure type photos, but only one actually worked.



June

June was all about flowers. A trip to my parents' house in the Cotswolds resulted in some macro shots and some other flower studies.




July
In July I didn't take any photos. Amazing, I know, but there it is.

August
August included a trip to Cliveden House, and the following shot of the Tortoise Fountain (I know it's not a tortoise...)

And I recently had a go at monochroming it...

There will be a pause...

While in the middle of compiling my "year in pictures" post, we've gone and moved house. And we don't have an internet connection in the new house yet.

There will be a pause of at least a week until we get that sorted...

That was 2008, that was. Part 1

As we draw to the end of 2008, I will post the photos which sum up my year with a camera.

January
Walk along the Thames in Henley, looking for a photo on the topic "Reflections", but getting sidetracked with the sea gulls:

February
In February I got a belated birthday present of a circular polariser filter. I used this on top of Dover's Hill.
We also went for a walk in Simon's Wood in Crowthorne, and found a burnt out car. I discovered the "vignette" effect in photoshop, along with a few other bits and pieces.


And I tried my hand at long exposures and "painting" with light.

March
In March we went to the lake district, and it snowed.

We also went to the Eden Project in Cornwall.


April

In April we "roadtripped" from Germany to Italy, via Switzerland. The weather was pretty bad in Germany, so the pictures are from Switzerland and Italy:

I'll leave it there for now (going out for dinner in two minutes...) and post the rest later...

Good news!

We eventually exchanged contracts on our flat sale on Monday. Yay! After accepting the offer on 30th August (while sat in Twickenham Stadium waiting for REM to come on!) we finally finally exchanged.

So now we've found a new rental house (an actual house! Whoo!)

So we now trying to pack up the flat, which is nice just before Christmas. We took the tree down this evening, which was a bit sad as it's not even Christmas week.

I made it home!

I got home at about half past nine. Yay.

The plane left 20 minutes late, it landed 10 minutes late, my suitcase was on the right flight, the passport desk at LHR T5 was empty, my suitcase was one of the first out on the baggage carousel.

The Avis bus was there waiting for me, my Avis Preferred car was there waiting for me, and the roads were empty.

And when I got home, Missus G was in the bath.

I've had a cuppa tea, and now I'm going to bed.

Yay, I'm through. After all the panic, and being told it was 4 hours / 3 hours, it only actually took about 90 minutes.

Which meant I was just in time to catch the flight before the one I'm meant to be on. Sadly, my suitcase is already (hopefully) ready for the 18:15 flight, and I thought it better to travel with my suitcase.

So I've found a seat, and a power socket, switched on the ipod and am sitting writing this. I should probably be doing some work...

The queue!