All over

Thats christmas over for another year. A friend and her elderly mother made these amazing knitted nativity characters for me, and my sister crafted the stable. Clever girl. Mum was delighted to receive this yesterday.

School prizegiving

The kids have worked hard as always and have picked up a couple of awards. Well done them!

Ian and jacki

Spending a very pleasant evening at ian and jacki's annual pre christmas drinks party.

Simon roberts

Another treat. The 2009 rps touring speaker is simon roberts. Simon has had alot of work published in national newspapers and magazines from the daily mail to the sunday times to maxim to gq. Today we get a preview of the 2009 lecture where he shows some of his reportage work along with his 'motherland' exhibition of images taken during a year long journey across russia.

Colour

Im early for an appointment and stopped along a country lane when i saw this lovely landscape. The photograph has not captured the beauty though simply because the camer's dynamic range - its ability to see what our eyes see isnt good enough in spite of the order of magnitude advance in digital technology over the past few years. It hasnt captured the wonderful colours. So my message to the camera research boffins - keep working boys!

Christmas Market Pictures

This is the main photo I took. Exactly the same place but at 5 minute intervals from which I shall select and mount a sequence of 5 images showing a gradient from daylight and no lit up Cathedral, to complete darkness with the Cathedral brightly lit, and probably this one in the middle. The blur in the foreground is the masses of people moving as I took the photograph but I like the way I have frozen the ghostly looking photographer also taking a picture in the middle. Bit difficult to see properly with this picture being small, so look closely!




Not much to say about this one, other that it feels a bit retro, which I think works quite nicely.

Bowling

Hannahs birthday bowling at lincoln bowl. Very good venue since its makeover.

Christmas review

Some friends are members of a Christian group - Treshold - and we have been lucky enough to be invited to their social events for some time now. Tonight is their annual Christmad Review. Always lovely food, amazingly talented band. I mean absolutely talent, gorgeous dancers, funny comedy and wonderful company. They never force their faith down anyone's throat and were it not for the very discrete flyers detailling their church services over the festive period you just wouldnt know it was a Church group. They are actually like real people. Very, very nice real people.

Lincoln Christmas Market

Back at the spectacular market. Alot busier than opening night on Thursday. Im here early to get the best vantage point. At dusk when the illuminated cathedral will be at its best with a dark blue sky as a backdrop I'll take some pictures.

New phone

My trusty S500i had to go back to the carphone warehouse again. I didnt find the quality of the calls satisfactory after it came back from having a new keypad fitted. To cut a long story short they lost my phone and gave me the original purchase price against a new one. So i got one of sony's brand new top of the range flagship c905.