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I crawled on all fours on the ground

2 April 2005

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Okay. I know. This one's a bit of a cheat. I originally thought that I would use it for today's PaD, then I thought that since I didn't make it to the Post Office this morning (it closes at 12.30pm on Saturdays), and that since I still have Wiggy, and that since both Linda and Liam have agreed to pose wearing it (fully clothed, I hasten to add), that I would use that as my daily photo. Never got round to taking it. Too depressed about today's football result to even think about pink wigs, and then I got caught up in other things. Like watching the second episode of Dr Who (the series had better improve very soon - bring on the Daleks and Cybermen), and trying (unsuccessfully) to stay awake during BBC4's live broadcast of the Quatermass Experiment. While I was pretending to be awake - just to foil Liam's attempts to change the channel to watch Terminator 2 - Linda came in to break the long expected news that the Pope had died. Whilst I respect the fact that his death is a sad event for the Catholic world, I was not really in the mood to watch all the obituary TV programmes that were swamping the schedules, and which Linda wanted to watch. Anyway, I was depressed enough with Celtic losing at home to Hearts, thus virtually handing the championship to R*****s (unless Motherwell can win tomorrow - but I think there is more chance of me winning the lottery, and I didn't buy a ticket). I sold an old and unplayed CD on Ebay yesterday (I won't tell you what CD - it's too embarrassing). It had been sitting at the bottom of my CD pile for years, so I decided to get rid of it. I described it as being used but in excellent condition (which it was for something 10 years old - with some superficial surface scratches). The person who bought it paid the whopping sum of 50p for it yesterday. I posted it to him last night and he received it this morning, then immediately sent me an email complaining that it was not pristine and that I had sent it in a recycled padded envelope, and that he was no longer wanted it! I didn't imagine that there really were people out there who are so anal. I mean - what does he expect for 50p! - after the listing fees and paypal charges, it actually cost me money to sell it to him! I bought 1Gb of webspace with PHP and MySQL on it, and spent the past three hours trying, unsuccessfully, to get a PHP gallery up and running to link to my CPHRC site. I don't understand why they make these things so complicated. I finally gave up and almost threw my crutch through the monitor in frustration. I also need to clean my camera's sensor, and I don't know where to start. Jessops advised sending it away to be cleaned professionally - but I've only had the thing for three weeks, and can't afford to be sending it away once a month to be cleaned - surely they can come up with a better system than this! Gavin told me that he uses the low-tack Scotch tape method - but I'm too scared to try that (I'm just a coward). Still. At least the sun shone today, and it was lovely and warm. So it wasn't all bad.

Nikon D70 ,Tokina 28-200mm f/3.5-5.3 SZ-X MF
1/640s f/5.3 at 190.0mm iso200 full exif

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Guest 04-Apr-2005 23:21
Reads like a day from heaven! Urmmm...
Karen Leaf04-Apr-2005 00:03
I'm jealous of your daffs Stu, but I'd go easy on the tape cleaning. See the copperhill link earlier :)
Guest 03-Apr-2005 22:32
DOF&colours are great my friend.
ciao
asche
Wenche Aune03-Apr-2005 22:22
Beautiful!
Dawn03-Apr-2005 22:02
I read on Scifi.com that the Season 1 doctor is hanging up his hat.. and that they're looking for the next Doc... Funny thing.. just saw the 96' movie last night too! As for Wiggy... well.. she was smelling the flowers too no? ;)
Si Kirk03-Apr-2005 20:40
Nice photo, you know i have yet to shoot a daff this year.
David Clunas03-Apr-2005 20:23
Have the same problem on my camera at the moment, the comment below was left on my pbase 'dirty sensor' page, it has a lot of useful info around it. Also www.dpreview.com forums are a good referance point.

http://www.pbase.com/copperhill/image/39082096
laine8203-Apr-2005 14:49
Splendour in the grass !!
Susanne03-Apr-2005 14:25
I am sure wiggy wont be to upset, because you took time away from her. Lovely image. I love how the ones in the foreground are in focus and then slowly the DoF sets in.
petesie03-Apr-2005 12:12
This one would cheer anyone up! Have a look! Lovely.
Gail Davison03-Apr-2005 08:47
Sounds like you've had a bit of a bad day!! Nice photo!
Guest 03-Apr-2005 07:41
Full bore colour??? Nice shot, but I'm not sure about the background blur, looks a bit strange like a paint effect?
Elaine (etfitz)03-Apr-2005 03:18
Beautiful!
nomadicdragon03-Apr-2005 01:00
beautiful.
jude03-Apr-2005 00:03
Lovely colors, Stu.. nicely filling the frame.
I sent my Canon off to have the sensor cleaned because I had purchased a 2 year maintenance agreement with it last May .. I can get preventative maintenance on it so I thought since I was using the Nikon I would do it. NOW I get a call from where it was sent that they cannot do the cleaning there.. wrong place. So I give up! I WANT my canon back.. Not that I don't love the Nikon but there are no short lenses for it and I want my close up shots. I'm feeling needy as hell. Besides, my boss (who owns 6 DSLR's) does all his sensor cleaning.. i'm letting him have a crack.. :D
markvm03-Apr-2005 00:02
Nicely done, Stu!
Coleen Perilloux Landry02-Apr-2005 23:57
I think this is beautiful and just what I needed today, thank you.
Gilles Navet02-Apr-2005 23:48
He Stu, Surprise this one !!!
The new Stu Style ? Juste an experience ?
I like the only two tones composition
Great use of lens my friend
Gilles