331/365 Mr Blue Sky

The sky wasn't actually blue at all, but I had left cam on tungsten and thought, wow, I like that effect, and so enhanced it. It was dusk and I liked the clouds. (Mr Blue Sky by ELO is a favourite song of mine and was the soundtrack to a video of my tandem sky-dive back in '92!)

283/365 Fairweather bikers

The A6 runs through Belper up to Matlock Bath, where many bikers gather. After visiting an exhibition at The Little Gallery in Belper this afternoon, I caught these guys heading for Matlock. It was a beautiful autumn day with a fabulous blue sky, big fluffy clouds and whispy plane trails.

115/365 Near Vicarwood Farm 2

The fields are turning yellow again near where we live. Oliver and I took a walk this evening up that curving track again (60/365; 34/365) and I got a few good shots. I had been a bit torn really and I compromised - I wanted to get to this point but didn't really want to walk all the way there, so we parked at the start of the track. After a week where we walked 7 of the 10 school runs, I felt I'd walked far enough thank you!

Rapeseed (Brassica napus)

63/365 Swarkestone Lock

Further up the canal from Willington, (or should that be down the canal?) is Swarkestone Lock. A friend of mine lives in the former Lock-Keeper's Cottage there. I didn't have the chance of properly exploring today, but I'll go back another day with camera. (If I had more time today I'd make that telephone wire disappear from across the top too!)

60/365 Near Vicarwood Farm

I did something rare today. I went for a long walk! (Long for me that is!) I had an unexpected window of opportunity in some glorious weather (apart from a chill wind) to walk over the hill featured in a previous blog photo, 34/365 Snow on the landscape. I walked along the curved track and beyond the trees listening to Beautiful South and then Elton John on my ipod and trying out my new filter holder, polariser and nd grad filter. Bliss, apart from that chill wind. (Did I just type 'bliss' in the same paragraph as 'long walk'?? Blimey... I'm in danger of getting fit 'ere!)

I encountered lots of dog walkers and a couple of students who were on bikes, one of whom is also a photographer. Maybe I'll go again another day, next year perhaps! ;0)

52/365 Spinner

Thursday's party bag had a spinner in it. Jodie was learning how to set it spinning today, inbetween reading her magazine. It was trickier to photograph than expected - too slow a shutter speed and its too blurred, too fast a shutter speed and you can't really tell its moving!

Jodie seemed to be very busy today, drawing and colouring, making a book, doing some of the activities in her magazine - she works out what to do with little or no help mostly, such a clever girl! She needed an early night though - school starts again on Monday after a week's break and Daddy has let her bedtime slip!

Today's mainly clear blue sky was criss-crossed by plane trails this afternoon which looked fabulous as the sun started to go down. So what with Jodie and the sky both looking so fabulous, I just had to post 3 today.