tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30621968838453206622024-03-14T11:47:06.154+00:00Nicolette's NotebookHow creativity seems to colour every day of my lifeNicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-30068111589140764422012-02-09T22:23:00.000+00:002012-02-09T23:28:52.709+00:00Breathe in the moment<div style="text-align: center;">
9 February 2012</div>
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Wow, I am into February... no idea where this year is going... it is flying by so fast...</div>
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so I thought it is time to remember to do what Shane loved to do even on a cold and frosty day...</div>
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and take time to breathe in the moment...</div>
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Playing with the new camera again... this series of photos were taken of the white rose which still has a few blossoms even so late in the Autumn...</div>
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I liked the brown stamens and the sandy coloured dying petals... The photos are not quite as sharp as I would like but we have a slight breeze outside today... and a breeze always affects close-ups... I like the lovely soft bokeh in the background of the rose... the colours blend into each other in a way that doesn't detract from the subject of the photograph...<br />
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This is a particularly pretty white rose that grows in my shadiest flower bed near the neighbours garage wall...<br />
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A test close-up shot taken with the lens 1 cm from the rose... I like the sharp focal point and how the rest of the petals become beautifully blurry...<br />
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 is a nice camera to hold... a solid feeling and weight in my hands...</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-25287403014404309802011-11-15T13:46:00.001+00:002011-11-15T14:00:38.171+00:00Tiggy...<div style="text-align: center;">
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The new Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 arrived just before lunch... I slotted the battery into the charger to allow it to charge for long enough to be able to take a few test shots...</div>
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This photograph and the one below are of my mum's cat Tiggy outside in the garden... I was trying out the macro setting as I wanted to see how it managed doing close-up photography. I have always loved taking close-up photos.</div>
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Then I moved indoors with Tiggy. I wanted to see how the camera would handle in-door lower light shots. This was one of the features that was most important for me when choosing the camera and having a point and shoot camera with a lens starting at f2 was important for me. My last point and shoot was not good at handling low light...<br />
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There is some noise in the background but it is not awful... and certainly not as bad as with the old P4. This photograph like the one above was taken from the shady angle with the light from the window behind Tiggy...<br />
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I am really looking forward to testing this camera's abilities on a walk...</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-83588373922302214892011-11-11T17:54:00.001+00:002011-11-12T00:33:16.127+00:00New Point and Shoot...<div style="text-align: center;">
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For months now, I have realised that the time to replace my late lamented Nikon P4 had arrived... Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore my Nikon DSLR D3000 and the amazing selection of lenses, filters books and other camera related paraphernalia that have taken up residence here, since its arrival, last Autumn... </div>
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Without it I couldn't possibly have won a prize in the Zoo Photographic Competition...</div>
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1st Prize in the 'best funny caption' category </div>
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98, 99, 100, Ready or Not here I come!!!</div>
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Highly Commended in the 'best picture taken by a visitor' category...</div>
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But there is a lot of weight involved with taking a DSLR out for a walk... and I really wanted a great point and shoot camera that I could put in my coat pocket or my handbag and literally carry with me everywhere that I go. I used to take the P4 with me everywhere. Which meant I always had a camera when I saw something exciting or the light seemed to change just as I turned the corner or I met an animal in a strange place, there would be my trusty little camera ready and waiting... </div>
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The other problem I have with the DSLR is that I don't feel particularly comfortable wandering the lanes and byways with an expensive camera and assorted lenses hanging on my shoulder... So I tend to wait until Neil can go for a walk too and at this time of the year... well... apart from weekends... it is always dark by the time we can go out together which isn't ideal for photos...</div>
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The crunch came when I bought my ticket for going over to spend 3 weeks with family in Kent... I really didn't want to take so much valuable camera equipment in my luggage but nor did I want to miss taking photographs of my family over the festive season... Neil will be with his family and also wanted to be able to take photos over Christmas... so he will use the DSLR system and I have bought a new Point and Shoot...</div>
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Then I started trying to choose... I knew that the camera had to be good at taking photos in low light conditions as most of the photos over Christmas will be taken inside the cottage which has very small windows and not a lot of light even in Summer... My favourite types of photography are animals, close-up (can't call it macro because I have never actually had a macro lens but I do love to see the details in the hedgerow), and landscape... I have also begun reading about taking my photographs in RAW format and wanted the camera to have this option as well... Okay, I have become used to the DSLR and I wanted a point and shoot that could come as close to giving me DSLR functions as possible but with the light weight/pocket size of a compact camera. </div>
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After literally days of reading online reviews, browsing photography magazines, reading blogs, reading amazon reviews and gazing at image after image on Flickr... I finally narrowed it down to a choice of 4... okay, so only 3 were ever really in the race but a woman can dream...</div>
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<li>Canon Powershot S95 - this was a major contender for me, even though I am not really a Canon fan... My last film camera was a Canon Powershot which replaced my beloved Nikon Coolpix (stolen from luggage between Russia and Northern Ireland) but since then I have moved through several Fuji Finepix (2 were stolen), Nikon P3 (stolen), replaced by Nikon P4, then the arrival of the Nikon DSLR and I was not completely convinced that I wanted to go back to Canon... Then I read that they are updating it to the Canon Powershot S100 in January 2012 and I decided no... not going there... as this happened to me when I bought my MacBook Pro, less than a month later, Apple brought out the new improved version at a lower price to my new purchase, and months later I am still irritated by this...</li>
<li>Nikon P7100 - this was very high on my contender list and I was so very very keen on this camera... I so love using Nikon... everything about Nikon... but on looking at the Flickr photos I was not completely convinced that this camera was the one for me even though on paper it seemed perfect... I just thought it was a little too big and chunky for what I want.</li>
<li>Leica D-LUX 5 - oh this came high on my dream list... I looked at it... I read about it... I drooled... but - the price - there was just no getting around the price - way too expensive for what I want or need...</li>
<li>Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 - came into the picture... Made in the same factory as the Leica D-LUX 5 and uses the same lens. But at half the price of the Leica. I looked at the photographs on Flickr... now granted I had to scroll through many amazing professional photographs before I started finding images taken by "ordinary folks" but when I did... I was so impressed... beautiful closeups of everything from leaves and peeling bark to cats claws... stunning colour... great indoor shots... I just knew this was the camera for me...</li>
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So the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 has been ordered on Amazon, along with a spare battery (yup - I take more than 400 photos on a walk), a 32gb Sandisk (noticed that taking photos in RAW take more memory and I have had my 16gb card flash up as full), a converter that will allow me to use some of my filters on the camera (pleasant surprise for a compact), and a book on getting the most out of this camera. I had noted that other buyers although loving the camera... were less than enamoured that the manual is on a CD... not so useful if you want to refer to it while standing knee high in wet grass... </div>
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Magical, mystical Belfast... </div>
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The Mourne Mountains in the far distance...</div>
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I have a wonderful group of feral pigeons who like to visit for their breakfast every morning...</div>
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We woke up to sunny morning and blue skies for the first time in days... so after feeding the birds, small and large, the cats and ourselves, we will go for a walk on Cavehill... We have had such a wet summer and autumn that any sunny spell especially in November should not be missed...</div>
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It is Halloween and the bangs, crackles, whistles and shrieks seem to be dying down.</div>
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On our evening walk last night on the Cavehill, Neil and I arrived at the viewpoint just in time to watch the whole of the Halloween Fireworks display by the river Lagan in Belfast. I didn't have a camera and Neil took some photos using his phone. The shots are a bit fuzzy but we were about 4-5 miles from the fireworks.</div>
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We have an orb weaver spider in residence on the other side of our bedroom window...</div>
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This is a wonderful short <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/European_garden_spider#p00grb0l">BBC Wildlife video</a> of an orb weaver spider spinning her web... Absolutely worth watching the beauty of the process...</div>
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Although I am a bit nervous around spiders... This morning when I opened the curtains, she was busy rebuilding part of her web... and I could not fail but to be amazed at how she was working...</div>
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My orb weaver spider has beautiful striped legs... I often see these spiders in the garden in Autumn...</div>
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Yesterday I decided to go to the zoo with my camera and the Sigma 70-300 mm lense. Our zoo in Belfast is on the slopes of the Cavehill and there is a wonderful walk around the animal enclosures along a meandering path on rather steep gradients... </div>
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18th September 2011</div>
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For <a href="http://www.murrieta365.com/2011/09/straight-out-of-camera-sunday_17.html">SOOC Sunday</a> this week I have chosen a photograph (which has been cropped) that I took on a visit to the zoo with my two nieces in early September...</div>
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Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-44986037490824031132011-09-12T10:52:00.000+01:002011-09-12T10:52:00.616+01:00Driftwood...<div style="text-align: center;">
Monday 12th September 2011</div>
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I have had a very busy summer and look forward to sharing some of the different series of photographs that I have taken while on my many walks and visits to new places.</div>
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This series of photographs is of a wonderful section of tree trunk that drifted onto the beach.</div>
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I just adored the colours and textures on this wonderful piece of driftwood.</div>
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I've always loved driftwood. I love the way the time spent in the sea water smooths the rough edges.</div>
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Wonderful textures and green algal growth...</div>
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The subtlety of the colours of charcoal, grey, sand, beige, olive greens, ochres... are just glorious.</div>
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Beautiful textural swirling patterns...</div>
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My nieces and I spent a eventful day at the zoo before we travelled over to England.</div>
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As we arrived Maya said that her tooth was bleeding. It was a baby tooth. So I gave her a tissue and said she should wiggle it gently. By the time we reached the elephant enclosure the tooth was out. So I carefully wrapped it in tissue so that the tooth would not be lost. She was a little worried that the tooth fairy would not be able to find her on the ferry. I said that the tooth fairy was magical and would find her. When she expressed concern that the tooth fairy would be too tired to fly home, I said that she would be able to rest on the ferry and travel back with it to Belfast on the return trip.</div>
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There was general consternation that we could not locate the ring tailed lemurs. These sleeping black and white lemurs had to suffice.</div>
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When we reached the monkey house... we peered at the mass of monkeys all snuggled up together. My niece wondered how many legs and arms each monkey had.</div>
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That they were just enjoying a group cuddle and a snooze in the warm sunshine.</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnlough">Carnlough</a> is a village on the coastal A2 route along the edge of Co. Antrim.</div>
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It has a wonderful enclosed harbour that was built to take the stone from the local quarry away (now closed). The quarry has grassed over and the high manmade cliffs have many birds nesting.</div>
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We went on the lovely walk along Glencloy to <a href="http://nicolettenotebook.blogspot.com/2010/04/walk-from-carnlough-to-cranny-falls.html">Cranny Falls</a> last year.</div>
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The harbour is built using the limestone that was quarried in the area.</div>
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Lovely views.</div>
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I loved this series of photographs of the squirrel</div>
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Nonchalantly hanging by two paws while holding a peanut with his front paws</div>
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Showing off a little?</div>
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Looking cool as the peanut feeder and squirrel sway in the breeze...</div>
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Amazing acrobatic abilities</div>
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As you can tell I really like grey squirrels</div>
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Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-16762911777815579802011-07-08T09:18:00.011+01:002011-07-08T09:18:00.563+01:00All Souls' Chapel...<div style="text-align: center;">Friday 8th July 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">When I was in Kent in May for my brother Paul's Memorial Service...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I walked around the churchyard trying to ease my mind...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The gate into the churchyard... </div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beautiful old door handle... and weathered wood...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We shall walk through the doors of All Souls' Chapel...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">But my thoughts will also be with my brother Paul...</div><br />
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</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-31885241894157297082011-07-06T07:51:00.000+01:002011-07-06T08:33:38.993+01:00Stormy Sky Sweeping in From the Sea...<div style="text-align: center;">Wednesday 6th July 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">On a walk along the shore at Crawfordsburn the sky began to darken... surprisingly quickly it began to hide the lovely blue sky we had been enjoying...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the beauty of the dark approaching rain clouds...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the contrast of the white daisies against the grey sky...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As the rainclouds neared... We picked up our pace...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Walking back towards the car park... before it began raining...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-41653444139734125112011-07-04T09:34:00.030+01:002011-07-04T17:56:38.641+01:00Jeepers Creepers...<div style="text-align: center;">Monday 4th July 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I particularly love the Virginia Creeper in Spring and Summer with its beautiful green leaves and blush coloured shoots...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is an elegant plant as it drapes over the fence and across the doorway.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Please may I come in?" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"No" we all say in unison looking at the state of her wet muddy paws and fur after her latest excursion into the pond.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This was my favourite photo. I loved the way the sunlight lit up the leaves and made them glow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: auto;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">"Jeepers creepers, won't you let me come in?" she says, still hopeful, "anyway, I am much cuter than those silly virginia creeper leaves that you are photographing". "Pleeeeeease....."</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-64764162271921050232011-07-03T19:10:00.000+01:002011-07-03T19:10:58.078+01:00St Annes Square...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sunday 3 July 2011</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When we woke up, it was a beautiful sunny morning, so we decided to take the camera and go for a walk in Belfast City centre. I love walking around early in the morning on a Sunday when everywhere is so quiet and still. As this is for SOOC I have straightened any of the photos...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our aim was to wander around the old cobbled streets near Hill Street... We turned a corner walked past the back of St Anne's Cathedral and there was a route into the new <a href="http://www.saintannessquare.com/">Saint Annes Square</a>. The strange metal needle (very tall and shiny) is the replacement spire on St Annes Cathedral. They have matched the new buildings in the Square very nicely to St Annes Cathedral (a part of which can be seen behind the trees).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As we walked around this square it reminded Neil of the plazas in Barcelona but I found it more reminiscent of walks around Bath or Tunbridge Wells in England.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Part of it is not yet completed. The Mac will be a new arts centre/threatre.</div><br />
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</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-62475023226619283172011-06-27T09:24:00.011+01:002011-06-28T19:30:19.629+01:00Red Poppy...<div style="text-align: center;">Tuesday 28th June 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I had intended to have this as my Macro Monday post for yesterday. But I was late and didn't get it posted in time. So I thought I would put it on today. I love these gorgeous poppies.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To be honest, I don't know the variety.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They have grown in Steffi's garden in Kent since she and Paul bought the house about 16 years ago.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I loved the richness of the plum and aubergine colours in the centre with the little bit of sage green...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Such a striking plant and every bit as beautiful when the petals fall and the poppy seed heads mature.</div><br />
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</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-87167853377522505432011-06-22T08:11:00.017+01:002011-06-22T08:36:10.676+01:00Sunset Over Strangford...<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wednesday 22nd June 2011</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I took this series of photographs of the Sunset over Strangford Lough after we had spent a day wandering around Portaferry and visiting the Aquarium... As we travelled home the sun gradually set...<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The car ferry at the dock in Portaferry, taking on cars, for the short trip across Strangford Lough to Strangford... As we left Portaferry the sun was beginning to set...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The sun was getting lower in the sky...</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We stop a bit further along the Coast for me to photograph the sunset over a small bay... The sun was almost on the Horizon at this point...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">By the time we stopped near Mountstewart the sun had just disappeared...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the sky was still full of colour...</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="goog_1392529626"></span><span id="goog_1392529627"></span></div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-66257671787972655602011-06-21T09:43:00.017+01:002011-06-21T09:43:00.213+01:00How many books inhabit my To-Be-Read pile?...<div style="text-align: center;">21st June 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Question: </div><h3 style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #656a44; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><strong>“How many books are currently in your To-Be-Read (TBR) Pile?”</strong></h3><div><b><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">After all I live in a house that has at least one book case in every room (including the attic) except the kitchen and bathroom... The small bedroom which is nicknamed the book room... has a lovely blue futon sofa bed (very comfy to lounge on for reading) but which has long since ceased to be used as a spare bed as it cannot be opened up due to the number of bookshelves that now surround the walls. </div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">My mum taught me to read when I was 2 1/2 and by the time I started school a week before my 4th birthday I had already read all of the reading books for the first year... </div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">The highlight of my world when I was tiny was the arrival of the mobile library bus at the parking area just beyond our gates... where I would proceed to read and browse most of the children's books before deciding upon which ones I wanted to take out to read again... </div><div><br />
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</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-83731017063997438442011-06-20T09:21:00.040+01:002011-06-20T10:04:05.960+01:00Kerria Japonica...<div style="text-align: center;">Monday 20th June 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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I photographed the Kerria Japonica which grows by the fence in my mum's back garden in late Spring.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the spring this part of mum's garden is a riot of colour... with the Kerria Japonica, the lovely pink Camelia, the two japanese azaleas which are just starting to flower when these photographs were taken and the lovely hellebore towards the front of the border...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Kerria Japonica is starting run riot in its spot and will need to be pruned... I usually do this when it has stopped flowering for the season... no point in losing any of these glorious blooms... I thin out old stems after it finishes flowering for the season...</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">The Kerria Japonica is a deciduous shrub with very showy yellow flowers... </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a blaze of sunshine in bloom...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mum grows hers in partial shade, in well drained soil, beside the fence...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It is a graceful shrub with beautiful arching green stems and pretty serrated edged dainty green foliage...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one has the lovely double blossoms in buttercup yellow... I think there are single varieties around...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The blossoms look like little yellow pompoms...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The petals start to fade to a pretty buttermilk yellow as the blossom ages... really beautiful...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This gorgeous shrub flowers from mid- to late- Spring...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This particular plant was given to mum as a young plant taken off an established plant in her friend Betty Smethurst's garden, when she visited her many years ago, in Cumbria... Betty passed away a few years after this and when we look at the Kerria Japonica in full bloom we think of Betty's sunny personality and mum's wonderful lifelong friendship with her...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-46487015970487634712011-06-19T10:53:00.027+01:002011-06-19T22:02:22.539+01:00Squirrel Eating at Bird Feeder...<div style="text-align: center;">Sunday 19th June 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.murrieta365.com/2011/06/straight-out-of-camera-sunday_18.html">Straight out of the Camera Sunday</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We are so lucky to share our lives and our world with beautiful intelligent wild animals...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Like the grey squirrel...</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Acrobatic and fun to watch...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Their agility is inspiring...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They love nibbling the birdseed...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And the peanuts that are put into the open dish specially for them...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">They are so pretty...</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With their gorgeous fluffy tails and dark clear eyes... and dextrous little paws...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Nicolettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10023496321010522362noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3062196883845320662.post-27631816792370020472011-06-17T21:38:00.000+01:002011-06-17T21:38:05.352+01:00Homing Pigeon...<div style="text-align: center;">17 June 2011</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">I was just turning off the pump for the Koi pond in mum's garden this evening...</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When this beautiful homing pigeon shuffled up to me... I have a natural affinity with pigeons...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've always loved them... this one has its racing number ring on its leg so we contacted TACT to get the phone number for the organiser in Lisburn... So we will hopefully hear from the owner soon...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In the meantime it is in the bedroom in a box with some grain and a deep dish of water as pigeons need to be able to submerge their beak in water to get a drink...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We were told it is important to keep the pigeon warm... hence the bedroom...</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I couldn't leave the pigeon as it couldn't take off (probably exhausted) and my friend and neighbour has 7 cats under the age of 1 year so this beautiful bird was not safe to be left. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is the second homing pigeon that I have rescued. This bird is in much better condition than the last one which had been attacked by the local peregrine and had bad damage on its back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This bird just needs to go home to its loft...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photos curtesy of Neil as I was holding and stroking the pigeon... Couldn't remember how to hold it properly although I was shown with the last homing pigeon I rescued.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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