_1370742 - Lot of noise about the Isle of Wight wheelie bins and kitchen waste bins. Plus when you read the outside of the can, it's just for the Isle of Wight, nobody else in the world. I am pleased that the council is so diverse and looking beyond it's borders :(
The schedule of collection and the pretty leaflet that tells you when they will collect and what you can put in your array of three plastic buckets, is amazingly complex to, just to add to the fun.
Then the Isle of Wight was one of the first to have water meters installed (a few years ago), so these guys now want you to wash stuff before placing it in the bin. It takes 10 lbs of water to wash 1 lb of solids down the sewage. So instead of putting in landfill, we'll probably be putting in the sea in a diluted form.
Apart from having to almost bar code reading everything and checking the bin, but only eating certain things on certain weeks, we are now going to increase our water bills and use more of that valuable resource to achieve eco-ology.
Of course most of stuff that you put in this little beauty could go on your compost heap and some to feed the nature that's visits our gardens. I suspect that would be uncivilised though. Just imagine if a bird picks up a piece of carrot and drops it on the highway, you'll probably get a bill for littering :)
Any ways gave me an opportunity to have a go a shooting something shiny and green in the garden to practice light and focus.
SOOC
DMC G1 - Optomax Auto 1:5.5 f=300mm 5.5
Biscuit tin (being recycled as a cake tin) tripod and bean bag - testing how the double glazing impacts on shots. Basically to see if I can some birds in the frame.
Tags
wheelie bin kitchen waste water green eco food stuff recycle HWRC garbage trash rubbish container
Great Broadband
Friday, 27 January 2012
Eco-Ology, being Green
Monday, 23 January 2012
Milk 'As Is'.......Just do it!
_1370184_JustDrinkIt - Brought a bottle of unpasteurized milk for the boys,from our favourite farm shop, the boys love it and every so often we get one for a treat. Zeke the Collie was from a working farm and used to get it almost straight from the cow, warm :)
This is part one or an addition to the assignment as this round the back of the shop in the assignment (work in progress). Not sure if this was Buttercup in the foreground, but she managed a similar pose to that on the bottle, took about six shots to get it mind.
Strange light as the clouds moved fairly fast and one minute the bottle was just right the next it wasn't, so this is an inbetweeny!
There is a shop (later) and a eatery Bluebells Cafe where you can watch Bluebell and her work college's doing their business, they also maintain a calf petting area on the same site. So a complete out of town shopping centre experience and factory all in one. Watch the world go buy, cute factor, food and drink, plus you can buy your vegetables and meat. Plus loads of other locally made goods and preserves. Then they also do Bed & Breakfast, accommodation as well, so a complete package.
SOOC - Except for the addition of the text, if you see what I mean
DMC G1 + Helios 44M
Free hand
Do It Daily make your resolution now and join us @ Today's Posting
We all have a favourite store or small business, lets share our passion and create an advert to sell it to us. Post it then Tag it with #TP74
Tags
unpasteurized milk cow cows straw barn railings girders eating looking "as is" farm dairy products "isle of wight" wight briddlesford "briddlesford farm" buttercup chewing white product shop advert #TP74 accommodation "Briddlesford Lodge Farm" griffin
Monday, 16 January 2012
Just Dreaming of the Weekend ... Try the Light box
Just Dreaming of the Weekend ... Try the Light box, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (feedback welcome).
P1350247 - Don't point at the sun, first rule.
This is for all my Flickr Contacts and friends have a great week, whatever you are doing, I hope to catch up by next weekend.
SOOC
DMC G1 + 300mm (yes it needs cleaning!)
Free hand
Love, Peace and Happiness
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Whirly Green ........ Light box is probably a must
Whirly Green ........ Light box is probably a must, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (feedback welcome).
P1330991 - Slightly different walk today as the sun was shinning and wanted to use the 300mm and Collie, just add water fun.
SOOC
DMC G1 + Optomax Auto 1:5.5 f=300mm 5.5
Free hand
Did you try in the light box ...............PRESS 'L' .....or ......... click ME
Almost Square Centre
P1340219 - Oh so easy, pop out to the garden or somewhere, click shot of flower centre, back in for coffee. Day four after waiting three days to be in the right place at the right time for the sun, third day did get some shots, but the breeze and gust meant I didn't get what I wanted :(
Today, hurray, sun cloud cover every now and then in the two hour window, gentle breeze.
Yesterday I guest the width, but the actual opening as below is just under 10 mm on the widest point
This is about 1:170/180 magnification
Crop otherwise as is
DMC G1 + Bellows + Hellios 44M - Bellows
Tripod
Scavenger Challenge
4. Get as close in as possible to a flower's center, either by zoom or macro.
Sorry I could not get as close as I would have liked, max would have been 1:200
Do It Daily make your resolution now and join us @ Today's Posting
Lose the rectangle today. Make a photograph with a square (1:1) aspect ratio and post it. Crop if needed., post it then Tag it with #TP65
Be prepared for a whole bunch of close up's in the stream over the next few days:)
Tangled Server II
P1340511 - Long story, but there I was moving some doors around in the work shop and trying to tidy up some cabling. Moved one door and found this, loved the light so went and got the camera.
SOOC (rotated)
DMC G1 + Helios 44M
Free hand
Scavenger Challenge
16. If it's overgrown with vegetation, it's a candidate for this assignment.
Experiment - Fern Project - P1340833 - Joby 'n' Fern
Experiment - Fern Project - P1340833 - Joby 'n' Fern, originally uploaded by Rusty Marvin (feedback welcome).
P1340833 - The Fern/Frond project continues, trying anything with these at the moment, one day I'll get what I want in the meantime another experiment!
Bit late getting the boys out for their walk, and the sun had already had enough for the day and was hidden behind complete cloud coverage as we drove towards the woods.
Joby light in a tree to generate some light and me on the forest floor:
SOOC
DMC G1 + Helios 44M (repaired)
Free hand (Joby light)
Do It Daily make your resolution now and join us @ Today's Posting
Grab your camera and walk 2 minutes in any direction. Stop. Find a photo worth making from where you stopped and post it.
This was two minutes into the walk after parking the car at the entrance and getting the boys out.
