Category Archives: photography

Thing-a-Day 01; Self Portrait

I thought I should start this year’s Thing-a-Day with a self portrait, but given that I look so scruffy as well as fat and unfit it seemed better to doctor the results in PaintShopPro!  So here I am this morning standing outside the supermarket.

My Friends Meme


My Friends Meme, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This week’s Flickr meme is to use the first names of 12 friends and see what we get.

So I chose: Gabriella, Sue, Stephen, Rob, Tom, Christine, Malin, Ziggy, Prue, Les, John and Katy.

1. Don’t Go Yet, 2. Sue W., 3. tempest three, 4. Very sticky flip-flops that don’t flop!, 5. Naked Bill But Still Beautiful, 6. In A Dream With You, 7. encadrée, 8. Angelic Fruitcake, 9. Parisian Stories 5 – The Brawl 15, 10. NYC – MoMA: Pablo Picasso’s Head of a Sleeping Woman (Study for Nude with Drapery), 11. INTO THE SUN. PAINTING BY JOHN P. BUTLER, 12. Katy Kitchen

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys

All About Animals Meme

This week’s Flickr meme is all about our favourite animals.

First here’s my usual slightly off the wall take; interpret liberally:
1. favourite mammal: pussy
2. favourite primate: nubile
3. favourite fish: mermaid
4. favourite marsupial: giant hopping mouse
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: my physics teacher (excellent teacher and nice guy, but he did look a bit like a juvenile tortoise!)
8. favourite amphibian: (pissed) newt
9. favourite dinosaur: dragon
10. favourite invertebrate: (raw) prawn
11. favourite animal name: Emperor Haile-Selassie (a rare pedigree wire-haired Abyssinian tripe hound)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? nymphomaniac


1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Natsumi, 3. Sirenity, 4. Wallaby
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Tortoise Yoga, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Chinese Dragon, 10. Prawns, 11. HM Supreme Emperor Haile Selassie I, 12. PZ HalloweeN Ball

And here, for those who realy want it, is a more serious version:
1. favourite mammal: cat
2. favourite primate: lemur
3. favourite fish: koi
4. favourite marsupial: thylacene
5. favourite insect: wasp
6. favourite bird: parrot
7. favourite reptile: lizard
8. favourite amphibian: newt
9. favourite dinosaur: ichthyosaur
10. favourite invertebrate: lobster
11. favourite animal name: Zen (for a cat)
12. if you could be an animal, what would you be? cat


1. Lady Lula’s Bright Eyed Stare, 2. Ring-Tailed Lemur, 3. We call the big white guy Jaws, 4. Thylacene
5. New wasp nest in shed., 6. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, 7. Lady, Please!!, 8. Palmate Newt
9. Ichthyosaur, 10. Lobster, 11. Sleeping Cat, 12. IMG03898

As always the photographs are not mine so please click on individual links below to see each artist/photostream. This mosaic is for a group called My Meme, where each week there is a different theme and normally 12 questions to send you out on a hunt to discover photos to fit your meme. It gives you a chance to see and admire other great photographers’ work out there on Flickr.

Mosaics created with fd’s Flickr Toys

Green Woodpecker


Green Woodpecker, originally uploaded by kcm76.

This Green Woodpecker was visiting my west London suburban garden earlier today. I certainly don’t see them regularly, maybe just 2 or 3 times a year, and they are always a delight especially when they stay for a few minutes to feed, as this one did.

It’s not a brilliant photo as I was trying to hand-hold my biggest telephoto lens, in poor winter afternoon light, while leaning out of the window.