Daily Drivel

The sun is out!

Just a few photos I took this afternoon. The butterfly didn't stay around very long but I did manage to grab one reasonable shot of it. It was really quite hot in the sun. I'm still struggling to get nice in-focus shots of little bugs.

In a spin!

I decided to have another go with my spindle tonight. I've only had a few attempts at spinning and haven't really produced anything much - haven't attempted plying yet. Anyway - here's a photo of my progress so far (not all tonights efforts I must add! Might do a bit more later)

I'm doing about 50% 'park and draft' and 50% erm, whatever you call it when you aren't parking and drafting! Guess I'll keep going with this for a while and have a go at plying when I've got enough. It looks pretty anyway!

I spent about 45 minutes in the garden tonight with my Macro lens - and didn't take one photo worth sharing with you. Sorry. They were all a bit rubbish. It's so hard - the depth of field is so tiny. I couldn't find many bugs - although I did get a couple of reasonable shots of a tiny spider but they're a bit gross - trust me - the yarn is much nicer!

I'm still loving the Wii fit - A is doing his 'workout' now - I can hear him on the 'rhythm boxing' - I'm going to try the 10min rhythm boxing tonight and I'll probably do the step a couple of times (they really needed to make a longer step 'game'!). We did lose some weight last week (I think I might have mentioned that already) - but last night we were very bad - I was feeling peed off (long story - quite boring!) so A suggested we go to the pub for a drink - and we had a pudding too. EEEK. I don't even want to think about how many calories it had in it. Maybe I'll have to do the boxing twice hehe! Nevermind - you can't be good ALL the time.

Sun's out!

It's quite a nice afternoon today. I'vejust been out in the garden with the macro lens - I think I need a lot more practice! It's incredibly difficult to take sharp photos of little bugs - mind you, it is a bit windy today which doesn't help. This is the best of a pretty poor bunch! I can't blame the lens - it's fantastic - I need to improve my technique.

A few macro shots

I really want to spend a bit of time getting to grips with my fab macro lens - but I just don't seem to have had a chance recently. The weather isn't helping! Managed to grab half an hour in the garden today - it's a bit windy which makes it tricky. I missed out on getting a shot of a tiny fly on a daffodil - didn't manage to get it in focus. Click image for a bigger version.