Stop Taking Photos And Eat It

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It's in full sun and rapidly melting, you muppet.
(It was still tasty).
A backup photo today.

Forest Moon

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A backup photo from last night.

Sailing Into The Sunset

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Please Ensure All Drownings Take Place Over There

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For safety, you understand. And it wouldn't do to trample the nice purple flowers over here. Yes, I am in a mildly unhinged frame of mind.

Firecat

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A backup photo, taken at the Wales airshow a couple of days ago.

This thing is impressively manoeuvrable for what must be a heavy aircraft with a lot of water sloshing around in the back.

Still, I suppose water doesn't get airsick, complain or ask for a refund...

Before We Go Home

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A backup photo today, it was a busy one packing up and driving home, then getting the van cleared out, cleaned, and refuelled ready to send back.

It was a really good holiday, in spite of my feeling pretty ropey at times.
I came home with almost as much beer as I'd left with, as I'd not wanted to poison myself with paracetamol and booze!

Firebirds

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In a completely unplanned but rather fortuitous turn of events, we discovered that our last full day in Wales coincided with the Wales Airshow, so we decided to go along and have a look.

It was a great day out, and I've still only got through culling the first of three sessions worth of photos - I rather surprised myself when I checked the camera in the evening and found that I'd taken nearly 4000 photos.
No wonder I was going through batteries like they're going out of fashion!

These three photos are of Firebirds Displays doing their daytime thing. (Yes, they also have a nighttime thing, which might appear later, if the photos aren't terrible)

A couple more after the jump.

Pull Up A Chair

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No idea where the owners of these chairs had gone, this bit of the beach was all but deserted. I quite liked the shot though.

I took this shortly after eating in the only restaurant I've ever seen decorated with an oscilloscope and an ammeter (among many other things); a rather fun place, Swansea Observatory.
I must confess I have fairly regularly eaten in the company of measurement instruments, but only in my lab until now!

Rhossili

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Turns out to be a lovely place.

I was glad I had elected to wear a hat, I'd have been well scorched in this walk otherwise. It only blew off my head once, too!

Ripples

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I managed to get out for a walk on the beach today; Paracetamol is wonderful stuff!
Posted outrageously late again; I'm still catching up.

Campsite Supervisor

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A backup photo today (from last night).
I woke up feeling really rough, and didn't make it off the campsite.

Fortunately my indefatigable in-laws were on hand to ply me with restorative iced coffee, good humour, and cough medicine.

I'd almost certainly have given up and gone home without their support.

Beach Peek

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Sneaking a peek at the sea between a couple of beach huts on the way towards a walk along Langland Bay.

Once In A Blue Moon

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(*Not an actual blue moon, at risk of outing myself as some kind of charlatan)

This was a backup photo, the 19th was the first day of my holiday - I borrowed Bailey and a camper van and went to Wales - dog tax after the jump.

Bench Therapy

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I do like an abandoned bench as a subject.
What can I say? I'm a bit odd, but I guess you knew that already.

Sliver

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Hello again, Internet.

I am inordinately late posting this owing to a holiday (upon which I got ill), an absolutely insane week back at work, and some other stuff.

I shall be trying to catch up over the next few days.

Good photo? Not really, but it happened on the day in question, so I suppose there's that!

Supportive Graffiti

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A backup photo from last night.

Some For Now, Some For Later

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Attend To Your Gubbins

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A backup photo from Saturday.

Wrong Footed

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A backup photo today.

Harvest Will Occur Soon

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2026-07-11

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My brain has ceased to generate titles.
Anyway, I went to Brixham to see family and took some photos while I was there.
This is one of them.
I just posted it. Hopefully.

Focus Is Optional

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A backup from last night.
Technically not correct on account of nothing being in focus, but I quite like it.

Come Fly With Me

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Not sure what was going on here, some kind of private fair / silent disco thing was set up in the park.

No Parking

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Remain Hydrated

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It is recommended that you do not leave your water bottle in the park for a passing photographer to take advantage of...

Hacked Off

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As someone who meddles with cables from less than a millimetre across up to big beasties thicker than your wrist, I quite like the lack of scale here.
Niche interest though...
(About 8mm total diameter for any fellow weirdos in the audience)

Slurp

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I went for a walk this evening, and travelled light with the EOS M6 II kit because I had the annoying muscle spasm back in my chest again - I think it's brought on by falling asleep in a silly crunched-up position on the sofa, so I need to stop doing that!

Not mad with this one, I have to say.

Poplar Hawk-Moth

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An early start this morning, I went out with a small Nottinghamshire wildlife trust group to see some moth traps being opened for a regular survey.
I didn't realise how many species of moth we have - it's well into the hundreds.

(And yes, I know this is not perched on a poplar, but I think it was getting a little sleepy by this time in the morning, and it happily transferred from our pencil onto the Meadowsweet)

A couple more after the jump.

Virtual Window

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Sphereish

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Life, Lemons, Lights, and Lenses

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I was scratting round for a subject this evening, and eventually landed on this lemon.
Being edible, I suppose it's at least loosely in my snackro category.
This one's a stack of 33 frames.