Newquay-Plus Photo Blog

The Vulcan Roar?

Mark — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 23:17:54 +0000

Welcome to another of my rare updates! I had the opportunity earlier this year to attend the RNAS Yeovilton Airday and see the mighty Avro Vulcan XH558 display. I had not seen (or heard) her since her restoration and she was a wonderful sight. It’s amazing how such a large aircraft can be so nimble and graceful.

There were many other aircraft displaying that day and I came home with over 1300 images to sort through. I have put several in the gallery (click the image above to be taken there). I do think I need a lot more practice at photographing aircraft – I might just have to go back next year!

Joust!

Mark — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:05:05 +0000

Some time back now, I went to a joust at Pendennis Castle organised by English Heritage. I was impressed as a lot of work had gone into making it authentic, from the lances with tips designed to bite into the cloth and make the lances break on a hit, to the armour to protect the jousters! Were they taking it easy on each other? Not a bit of it as you can see form the shot below, broken lances flying after a good hit! Click on the picture to go to the gallery and check out the rest of the shots.

Happy New Year!

Mark — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:30:59 +0000

Here we are at the start of another year – I don’t know where the time is going. What will 2011 bring us – we can only wait and see.

As I have done for several years now, I went into Newquay in the run up to the new year and spent about an hour taking pictures of many of the people celebrating around town in their fancy dress. There is always a good atmosphere on New Years eve and this year was no exception although I have to say there seemed to be a lot fewer people around, even though the weather was dry. Perhaps this is due to the economic situation and there being less money available for people to spare on a trip to Newquay for New Years eve, but who can say for sure.

I came home in plenty of time to see the New Year in at home with the family and to start running through the photo’s ready to upload them to the gallery. Here is one to whet your appetite – check out the gallery page for the rest.

Happy New Year to you all!

School projects at my age?

Mark — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:28:31 +0000

Last weekend was spent investigating ‘habitats’ for my daughters school project. Having been to Cardinham Woods in the morning, we went to Mawgan Porth beach in the afternoon. The weather was overcast, but the forecast rain held off until just as we were leaving. I used to live in one of the houses overlooking this beach, so knew where we could find some rockpools for the project.

Here’s one of the photo’s from the beach – the gallery is available from the links above and is in the ‘Newquay’ section.

Oh – and it looks like I need to update my copyright watermark too!

Remote posting

Mark — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:35:29 +0000

Well, it seems I should be able to update this blog wherever I am so here goes! This last weekend we went to Port Isaac (where the TV programme Doc Martin is set, called Port Wenn in the series). Weather was perfect and the views were great. I still have to process the pictures from my main camera but (hopefully) here’s a shot from my phone in the meantime.

Starting over…

Mark — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:46:58 +0000

It’s been a while since I did any updates here and in that time, WordPress have updated the software and my old theme did not like it. I was intending to change to the new theme anyway as it offers many more options – so here we are. Unfortunately, in the process of the upgrade, I managed to lose my old posts so I am starting again. I make no promises of how often this site will be updated!

At the moment, expect the look of the site to be changing as I work to get the appearance how I want it.