Took this pic at the Scottish Rally a couple of year back. It was my first outing to a rally and I'm not afraid to admit I was a little nervous with these cars rattling past through the woods, swooshing past me only a couple of feet away. This was one of the better shots I got as they ripped past. It may look like its standing still but belive me I was emptying dirt out of my pocket afterwards that said otherwise.

Its a cracker of a car by far my favourite of the day. Looks mean as hell and moves like you wouldn't believe.  You can read a bit about it here. Not sure how it ended out the day but it was my winner for sure.

Spotted the one of the cats sitting on the kitchen table watching over our newborn daughter Jessica. So far Ginny has been quietly interested in the baby, watching from afar just looking over her. The other cat, Tonks, however is over interested and looks likes she's dying to crawl into the crib next to her, something we obviously want to avoid.

Took this one a wee while ago at the Linlithgow Palace jousting competition. This dude was an assassin sent to bump off some royal dude. I quite like the way the shot came off with his face mostly hidden . My major gripe I guess would be the colour. I've done what I could with it but for me the pink still looks a little out of place with all the grey and brown. I tried a B&W conversion but it looked a little flat. Overall I like it but it's not without its issues.

I've been to Rainbow Landings in Edinburgh Zoo plenty of times now and I've taken plenty of pictures of these guys before too. This shot however is the one I'm most pleased with. The sharpness and the colour, especially round the eyes, has come out brilliantly (if I do say so myself .

This is another shot from our holiday in Sardinia. The Costa Smerelda (Emerald Coast to you and I) is on the north east of the island near Olbia. Is quite simply breathtaking a fact not lost on the tourist trade. Everywhere there is space (which is thankfully not too often) there is a very expensive hotel with even more expensive yachts moored outside.

Edit: A pox on lightroom! The vignette didnt look half as extreme as that! Doh! Looks better on black.

Wow I cant believe its been so long since I updated. 8 months have just flown in. Little did I know that in the time it would take me to post that I would nearly be a Dad!

I took this pic on holiday in Sardinia. The dogs are as you might have guessed, called Lilly and Rocky. They belonged to a lovely guy we met called Bastion who was over from the Italian mainland for a holiday too. Neither of us spoke a common language but we managed to muddle through and have a pleasant, if a little simple, conversation. This pair were his travelling companions and seemed really very happy to be well anywhere new.

OK I lied this is my last post before Christmas. I wanted to take something new and festive since we have all this snow about at the moment so, after work yesterday I grabbed the tripod D40 and my IR loaded Spotmatic and went out to the canal. Unfortunately by the time I got away from the house over to the other side of the water I had already lost the light and was left with that horrendous orange sodium glow that blights pretty much every urban area in the UK.  I got a few shots of on the digital but nothing that worth keeping. I wasn't going to have the chance to try it again today either as I had to stay in for a delivery (which still hasn't arrived). Fortunately though the cats seemed fascinated by the falling snow outside this morning and gave me a chance to get something festive before the Christmas madness properly kicks off.  I hope you like it.

Merry Christmas all!

Still not been out to shoot anything new although I have lots of ideas for when the stupid season is over. Also just took delivery of my first roll of IR film so I'm looking forward to experimenting with that and my hand me down Spotmatic.

I took this picture over a year and a half ago and instantly after uploading it I wasn't really very happy with the treatment I had given it. It was too glowy and I wasn't happy with the green tones. I'm well aware that I've probably over done it again with the texturing but I felt since pictures from that spot are a dime a dozen, I'd do something to make mine stand out a bit. Something other than making it look like it had been coloured in with a highlighter pen that is.

Assuming I post nothing before then, Merry Christmas everyone

This is another shot I took on our day out to the Natural History Museum. This fabulous looking building in a building is The Cocoon in the Darwin Centre at the museum. It basically an exhibit in which science is on show. Its a fascinating place, very high tech with lots of touch screen interactive displays showing how the real scientists at the centre go about their work.

I took this one of Caroline at the Natural History Museum in London. This was in the Expressions exhibition with works relating to Charles Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. I'm not sure if I've over done the post processing but I still like the effect.