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Ottery St Mary Tar Barrels
Every year in Ottery St Mary which is a town near Exeter for bonfire night the tradition of “Rolling” barrels through the extremely crowded streets is somehow still continued despite the trouble that it must cause in the health and safety mad world we now seem to live in. “Barrel Rolling” is where over a 12 month period barrels are coated with coal tar before being lit and carried through streets packed with people who have to make sure they get out of the way before getting hit by it! The event starts in the late afternoon with the children’s…
NHHPC Indoor Showjumping
On sunday we were attending the North Herefordshire Hunt Pony Club’s indoor showjumping event at Kings Equestrian Center with David from Vero Photography running the print station. The day involved 12 hours of pretty much straight shooting which is ok in itself but when you mix it with running around after horses to get them over as many jumps as possible it starts to get very tiring! It was a great albiet tiring day which over the whole day may have ended up with en excess of 3000 photos being taken! Though we are looking forward to returning on the…
Caving in the Mendips
Last week I had some free time and was looking through some of my old photos, and I found these from a trip to Swildons Hole in the Mendips during August 2009. Swildons Hole is one of my favourite caves as there is so much to do there, it has a waterfall which you have to climb down on a ladder, an active streamway with places to jump into and sumps along with the usual climbing that you get in caves. Last year I did not get to do much caving photography, but this year I am hoping to rectify…
Summer Holiday
At the end of August/start of September I went to Fiesch in Switzerland with my family and some family friends for 2 weeks of mountaineering, downhill mountain biking and climbing. We had a fantastic time while we were out there but of course with me being a photographer my camera went everywhere with me (apart from the biking). At some points I did question why I was doing this, for example, when I was walking up a 4000m mountain and had 5kg of camera gear on my shoulder! But overall I am so glad I did as some of the sites…
Lowfly in Scotland
Last week was my last week up in Glasgow before returning to university and I managed to get two days off work where I went to the Selkirk to Moffat pass in the hope that I would get some nice passes. On the first day I arrived to lots of hill fog and rain, but I braved it and went up anyway and it proved to be a good decision as I had a great pass at the end of the day by a RAF Tornado GR4. On the second day i went up a different hill and discovered that…
Finch in Flight
I am back up in Glasgow for a few more weeks on an extension to my summer internship, so I decided to go to Lochwinnoch again in the hope of some good activity. Unfortunatly it was a fairly quiet day with variable weather. There were however alot of chaffinches so in flight shots was the name of the game and here is one that worked. They don’t half move quickly! We did get a visit by a pair of Coal Tits and a Grey Wagtail.