Another Busy Day at Calke…

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Guthlac

Clearly not all the kids have gone back to school today….still there is enough space at Calke Abbey to find some more deserted locations.

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Where the Dark…

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Guthlac

A beautiful morning: just watched the season finale of Game of Thrones and everything is good in the world.   So what better time to make images of a spider on her web before the dew has burnt away…well sort of.   I had no intention of making any such image today but then as I walked past this web under the carport something caught my attention…the rest as might have said Aegon Targaryen is history.

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Killing Zone…

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Guthlac

When we walk through a garden we usually appreciate the beauty of the plants and style of the way they have been arranged.   What is overlooked is that gardens are a killing field for many of the insects that feed, breed and die their.

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Catch the wind…

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Guthlac

 

Well that was hard work but worth while in the end – I think?

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When I’m…

Posted on August 26, 2017 by Guthlac

So lets see where this adventure takes me….already seen some things that need tidying up.   This should be fun?

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Cupid…

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Guthlac

WARNING – THIS BLOG ENTRY CONTAINS LANGUAGE THAT SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE

 

We are warned time and time again that one day Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace human race and we’ll be relegated to a footnote in history.   I have no idea whether this is true but my latest interaction with one leading example of  AI gives me hope for us all.

Many many years ago there was a character on the late great Kenny Everett‘s show called Cupid Stunt a blonde haired bimbo film star, played by Everett in the most outrageous drag.  She would regale the audience with more and more lurid stories about how she would lose her cloths but ‘…in the best possible taste…’.  I was reminded of this when I asked SIRI on my Apple TV to find a programme about Constable the artist.   Instead of entering the word Constable the search field it replaced it with Cunt Stupid.   Needless to say there was no programme by such a name on the BBC iPlayer.

I believe Tyndale’s translation of the book of Matthew Chapter 7 verse 16 is very pertinent here:

By their fruits you will know them

Stupid Cunt indeed.

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Fine as a bee’s wing….

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Guthlac

This started off as one thing and slowly started to morph into the woman in the Richard Thompson song – Beeswing.

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Suffering for my art…

Posted on August 22, 2017 by Guthlac

Bright, flat daytime light is possibly some of the worst light for capturing images.   It makes for pleasant walking conditions, especially when there is a breeze, but capturing images – it can be a nightmare.   Today I found myself facing such conditions whilst enjoying a walk around the grounds of Charlecote Park.   Fortunately the remaining flowers were in areas where this light didn’t cause too many problems and so I was able to make a few images of a very obliging Red Admiral butterfly and a gate crashing bee.  As for the suffering – I knelt on a a very low stinging nettle in shorts whilst trying to capture some images of the fallow deer – not to be recommended.

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Blue Child…

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Guthlac

The summer is really coming to an end now as the flowers are slowly finishing their flowering season.   Now it is time to slowly claw back all the energy and goodness from their season’s growth to help them survive the winter in good shape to be able to flower once more next next year.  Some won’t make it but their place will be taken by the seeds of this year’s blooms.

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I don’t care about…

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Guthlac

So the new seasons and shows are starting to hit the TV – another indicator that Autumn is upon us.   Last night I started to watch the Defenders and well we’ll see where it goes.   The good thing is that there is a second season of Jessica Jones planned so that is definitely something to look forward to.

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