Stop gap - Photo Finish special from Wales

In an attempt to stop the next edition of BlackLOG making "War and Peace" look like a half written pamphlet, I’ve decided to release some photo’s from last week’s trip to Wales, while I try and trim the worst excesses.....to be honest it’s a bit like bikini waxing a gorilla  - a non co-operative gorilla at that....

Before the pictures a couple of snippets of info for you

The Olympic ticket update

We got  the Beach volleyball   - I tried to explain to a disconsolate Mrs B that this was not instead of any of the events that we went for and if we had not gone for the Beach Volleyball tickets we would have got nothing….

Mrs B – “I bet it rains” scuffing her shoes along the ground and glaring at me….

Me – “Don’t worry I checked the rules and if it rains the ladies have to replace  their bikini tops with tight fitting white T-shirts and it becomes a wet T-shirt competition…..”

Mrs B – said nothing, just raised one eyebrow menacingly and managed to roll both her eyes – deeply disturbing and yet strangely erotic at the same time….like a sexy “Mad-Eye Moody” for you Potter fans

Moving comments

The link for adding a comment has gone back to the bottom of the page, as I had a number of complaints that people were fed up having scroll back to the top of the blog in order to make a comment….or in some cases getting bored and nodding off before putting their thoughtful prose to keyboard and screen….

Photo Finish 

Big thanks this week to Stunt-Cock who convinced me to unleash The Beast and go fully manual, which has added a new dimension to some of the snaps...


I open up this week with Alfie, doing his impression of a well known 
 Cuban revolutionary leader As well as doing impressions of famous
cigar smokers, Alfie enjoys playing tug of stick and chasing sheep
(oh yes he does La Terriere…)

If you tune in next time you will get to see and hear a little bit more about
Alfie and his Parents owners ,Stunt Cock and Le Terriere,  who joined us
for the first part of our Welsh trip.

This shot of a spotted flycatcher took me a while to capture, I was just
relieved to discover that it was the creepy crawler type of
flies that is catches….

Although watching a bird hopping around with its little bird hood caught
 in its tiny zipper might have been quite amusing….

Who says Big flowers don’t cry…..it’s either that or our little
purple friend got a bit over excited and didn’t make the
loo in time…

This is a before shot of Welsh wood .

While this is the after shot…..

perhaps that was why the flower was crying….

Water, captured in a moment in time....

Roots which I thought were

aesthetically  pleasing....

This is a red kite that I managed to capture in flight, which was a damn site
easier than the hard to Spot flycatcher…This picture is just cropped while the
version below has had a little sharpening and lightening added in
Photoshop elements ...

I’m still in two minds on whether I should use elements to
enhance photos….any thoughts?

Drop in next time for the first part of our Welsh getaway