Ducatos – better than a vacation

Today’s photo: Another long exposure shot taken near Southend, UK, at Shoeburyness. Ah… Ken Dodd.  The problem with being born in my era is that I cannot get the songs of Ken Dodd, or indeed Keynsham Bristol, that’s K.E.Y.N.S.H.A.M, out of my head.  The latter was burned into my prefrontals while listening to Luxembourg on…

Third Installment of Myanmar photos from Inle Lake.  This time the amazing fishermen and the stupas of Indein   Boatmen that don’t have an engine in their craft adopt a curious one-legged poling method in Inle.  One of the earlier shots in this series shows the boatman at the Treasure using it.  The Inle fishermen…

The scene in Cape Town the weekend after Mandela died – when the great and good of the ANC came out before the TV cameras, and others silently watched.         Nelson Mandela died on Thursday 5th December 2013, at a time when we happened to be in Cape Town.  His death occurred…

The best part of the Pageant was at the end, when the orchestra and singers turned up, and in the pelting rain, belted out ‘Rule Britannia’ and God save the Queen’.  I got a short clip of this, and although a bit wobbly, it really captures the moment I think. [hana-flv-player video=”http://mcaughtry.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/Video/Thames_pageant/Thames%20Pageant.480p.flv” width=”570″ height=”320″ /]…

Today’s photo:  Blue and Gold. A long exposure shot taken near Simonstown in the Cape Peninsula, as the rising morning sun illuminated the jagged sandstones of the False Bay coast.  A further by product of my endless (and so far unsuccessful) attempts to capture effectively the sun rising behind the False Bay lighthouse.  These attempts…

Some photographs by way of a change of subject from technology.  These shots are of the gorgeous English Dales countryside on a trip to Aysgarth Falls, during one of the wettest and stormiest periods in recent memory, so everything was green and wet (except Norman).  Very English.     As is our wont we spent…