Firstly, I think its the image size or I may have done something to the thumbnailing bit. *shrug*
Secondly, this is another photo from Colchester Zoo – a rather pretty pink bird I cannot remember the species name of. Some sort of crane, maybe?
Food! Wednesday, Jan 30 2008
Colchester Zoo and Penguins 6:48 pm
Taken in 2006, summerish, on my darling E405. At Colchester Zoo.
How’s this for exotic food, Alba? :D
Name the movie. Tuesday, Jan 29 2008
These disgruntled pigeons are sat in a relatively young willow tree on an island in a village pond.
One day, I will catch one of them falling into the pond.
Yes… I watch them.
Swans, part two Monday, Jan 28 2008
Swans 3:00 am
The cygnet to go with yesterday’s photo.
Pwetty…
Yummy. >:D
Swans, part one Sunday, Jan 27 2008
Swans 3:00 am
We have two pairs of them near town right now – one adult pair and one adult with last year’s cygnet. Swans look so pretty, intelligent, and strokeable; but only try if you really want to lose a finger. This is the first of the adult/cygnet pairing – I’ll show off the next one tomorrow.
(FMers may have seen these already)
Bunny Walks Saturday, Jan 26 2008
Rabbit 12:02 am
Not a place you go at night, understand? But otherwise, they’re the strip of greenery running along the river Can as it heads out of town (or time, as my original typo said). At all times, this greenery is surrounded by people, and suburbia or town is no more than five minutes away.
And, in daylight on the grass, are rabbits. Real rabbits. Not the fluffy sort you have in your hutch – grey/brown skittish of people fox-food rabbits. If you go on the grass near them, they run like wildfire. But, if they’re close to home, you have leeway.
This is off the a bridge during twilight, so quality suffered slightly.
And now, for something completely different. Friday, Jan 25 2008
Pigeons 1:09 pm
Or rather, new. This is a picture of a particularly high up town rat, sat at the top of the multistory in Chelmsford. This is a six-floored car park; that is to say, there’s about four floors of carpark at the top and the market underneath it takes up the equivalent of two floors.
I took it yesterday, trying to see how close my new camera could get. :)
Plump, scarcely capable of flight, the only thing that makes the town rat different to the wood pigeon is that the wood pigeon isn’t so inbred it comes in a billion different looks.
I can now spot individual pigeons on the street.
First Post, Huh? Thursday, Jan 24 2008
Hylands House and Park Hylands House and Park 6:32 pm
Hi! Welcome to my newly declared photoblog.
I’ve always loved taking photos – I’ll say I’m not half bad, especially with my nice new camera. And I’ve always loved being lost, too. :D
To start this thing off, a picture of Hylands House, Chelmsford, Essex. It was taken July, 2007, on my gorgeous, reliable, but aging FinePixA405. It’s become zoom error prone and, whilst a good whack fixes that, sometimes you just have to give up on your favourite camera and find something new.
Hylands House is a three hundred year old, grade three listed, building that’s been through a lot. Once, when the property went into the hands of the County Council, they were going to leave it to rot and then sell off the land – and then it got named a grade three listed building, which meant that they HAD to look after it. A few million pounds, one floor less, and lovingly restored (and with extra land, taking it from four hundred something to five hundred acres) house.
Hylands has been used as a look-alike White House. The Park is open to the public all year ’round, and is the place where people take their children and walk their dogs as it is, in fact, the largest area of accessable green space for a bit of a way. It is also host to the V festival every year, and has recently been host to the scout’s Jamboree.
