January 17, 2010
December 31, 2009
Looking Back 10 Years At Some Of My Favourite Images and Places
As Christmas this year (2009) was a let down by peoples administration (or lack of it). I decided to post some of my favourite images of the last 10 years, there are many.
Some are the places we have been, some are the art I have drawn here on the computer, others are ones I have taken and they got put into folders on other hard drives I have, about 5 in all, they are all linked together on a neat little server and shared between 4 computers.
So as 2010 starts have a look at some of what we have done and where we have been.
December 25, 2009
Christmas Day-West Cornwall
I have made note on here that I am not a Christmas person but this year as we decided to have some time away in West Cornwall I was going to enjoy it and do something different, the different thing I wantd to do was to stand on the beach at Porthcurno, Why!!, not for any reason but that I love the place and I thougt we would be on our own, what a shock, there were many people there, bit like a summers day and we had the weather to boot, there were even two guys actually in the sea.
I was out to get some decent images, I think I did, then the sea decided I needed a dip, I fell over a rock then a wave gently washed over me and that was me `soaked`. What an eventful afternoon, Lisa was a little sad as she does not like the wind to much, but when I got a soaking, that more than made her laugh.
December 22, 2009
Christmas at West Cornwall-2009
We arrived in West Cornwall at 15.30 after waiting for many weeks, cold-Yes but not nearly as cold as it is in Somerset, maybe the children will get their White Christmas after all, including the adults.
In all my years I have never seen a white Christmas and quite honestly I really don`t want to see one, I am not a snow lover, I am not really one for Christmas but this one I have been looking forward to and I am gong to enjoy it.
I could not resist, Lisa did the unpacking while I just had to get an image just before sundown, not my best but I had to get one off to get it all started, so just one for now, we have two weeks so there will be many.
Its good to be in the place you enjoy the most and hopefully get chance to meet the people you know, especially in West Cornwall.
Judging by the latest images I have uploaded I felt like I was having one of those days, there was either not enough light for the darker scenes and not really enough light for the scenes at the harbour at Penzance.
We did manage to spend a fortune on presents for each other.
So, message to myself, stop spending money and concentrate on the job in hand.
I did have a telephone conversation from my daughter to say it was “Freezing” at home in Somerset, well I have to say it is anything but cold in Penzance.
December 10, 2009
More From My Archive
Some more images from my archive that really should have been up here, but for some unknown reason I stored them. So until we start our holiday in Cornwall over Christmas and New Year we will not be doing very much, but, upon reaching Cornwall will the weather be any better, that we will have to see.
December 4, 2009
November 14, 2009
Oasis Of The Seas
We made a special journey to the South Coast to the see the worlds largest passenger liner drop off 2/300 or so shipbuilders at Portsmouth, these are the the men and women who helped build this giant ocean going cruise liner.
Today it arrived in Fort Lauderdale in Florida which will be its new home and the home of its`s sister ship still being build in Finland.
The picture I took Dwarves the Isle Of Wight ferry. It actually looks like a 14 story hotel, read on,
In the images this vessel looks very big, but to see it on the ocean it is so big I had to re-adjust what my eyes and brain were seeing, any word I write as to its actual size just seems out of proportion to anything, just how big can something be built without it being too big.
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37 bars, 50 tons of ice: Incredible facts about the leviathan of luxury which is the world’s largest cruise ship, Oasis of the Seas
Taller than Nelson’s Column, longer than four football pitches – the Oasis Of The Seas, now preparing for her maiden voyage, is the world’s largest cruise ship.
It has every imaginable facility, from basketball courts to a wedding chapel, not to mention a spa offering Botox treatment.
0.43 miles is the length of the onboard running track. It’s found in the Spa and Fitness Centre, alongside kickboxing classes, tooth-whitening treatments and 24-carat gold facials.
3 years is how long the boss of STX Europe shipyard in Turku, Finland was given to build this mammoth ship. His brief was very particular: a ship large enough for 8,000 passengers and crew, complete with a landscaped park, whopping theatres, casinos and ice rinks, even an onboard hospital. All to be completed in 1,095 days.
6 weeks is how long it took to carve each of the 18 wooden animals on the fairground carousel to include zebras, giraffes and even lions as well as
7 is the number of ‘districts’ the ship is split into. In the middle is Central Park, a 350ft-long grassy spot with plants, trees and bamboo. The Boardwalk houses a carousel, carnival games and even a fake tattoo parlour. There’s also the Royal Promenade, or shopping street; a Pool and Sport Zone; an Entertainment Place and a Youth Zone.
17.9 feet is the depth of the swimming pool in the AquaTheatre. It was built with a 750-seater arena, two surf machines and fountains. Suspended above it are two climbing walls, diving towers and even a trapeze.
32 inches is the size of the screen of the smallest television set onboard. In fact, every cabin (both staff and passenger’s) has a highdefinition set that you can use not only to watch films and programmes – but to book spa treatments and on-shore excursions.
22.6 knots is Oasis Of The Sea’s cruising speed – not easy given that she often has to change course rapidly and, on occasion, perform the maritime equivalent of a handbrake turn.
50 tonnes of ice are produced onboard every day by special ice machines for 37 bars and more than 20 cafes and restaurants.
208 feet is the width of the ship – wider than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
72 different types of sweets are for sale at the onboard sweetshop, Candy Beach, enough to keep even the most sweet-toothed passenger happy.
300 is the number of workers given a sneak preview and short ride on the Oasis Of The Seas last week after putting the finishing touches to the onboard luxuries.
82 feet is the length of the zip wire course suspended over nine decks of the ship. It runs through the Pool and Sports Zone, which also houses four swimming pools (complete with water-spouting sea creatures), two 43-foot-high rock climbing walls and even a beach-themed nightclub.
93 different plant varieties are to be found on the ship. There is even an onboard nature guide for botanically inclined passengers.
37 bars, 50 tons of ice: incredible facts about the leviathan of luxury
130 square feet of real gold leaf gilding were used to make the decadent carousel on the Boardwalk.
131 is the number of feet above sea level of the four Jacuzzis, suspended high above the ocean on either side of the ship.
150 miles of pipework run through the ship – and that’s not even counting the 3,300 miles of electrical cabling and 100,000 lighting points that all have to be rigged up.
460 slot machines are found in the casino – where better to blow all that holiday cash burning a hole in your pocket?
1,187 feet is the ship’s length from bow to stern. That’s one and a half times the length of Tower Bridge – 800ft – or equivalent to four football pitches. At 240ft, the ship is taller than Nelson’s Column.
6,360 is the maximum number of passengers that can fit onboard at any one time – that’s more people than can fit in the Royal Albert Hall,which has a comparatively meagre 5,544 seats.
7,500 is the horsepower of each of the four bow thrusters that manoeuvre the ship. Each of them has ten times the horsepower of Jenson Button’s Formula 1 racing car.
8,000 man years of labour were painstakingly ploughed into building this ship – which is more like a mini country than a boat. But with the combined effort of 3,200 hard-grafting shipyard workers, it only took three years to complete – amazingly on schedule.
10,000 is the square footage of the onboard shops. From Italian jewellers and organic T-shirt companies, to computer game shops and designer boutiques. Oh, and some duty-free, of course.
50,000 pieces of cutlery are kept in the hotel’s main dining room, Opus. No doubt, they’re all needed – after all, there are more than 500 tables, which can seat 3,056 guests at any one time, so there’s plenty of call for the 550 dining room staff too.
60,000 is the number of napkins that guests are expected to use on every voyage.
75,000 is the number of telephone calls that Royal Caribbean Cruises are inundated with every day – from people interested in booking a trip.
600,000 litres of paint were used to decorate the ship. After all, there were 2,706 guest staterooms (that’s bedrooms to you and me) to paint, not to mention the shops, bars, swimming pools and entertainment spots.
1,700,000 is the number of hours it took to complete the design and engineering plans alone. And that’s before you even think about building the thing.
2,350,000 LITRES of water will be used by passengers and crew, every day of sailing. It is stored in 31 huge tanks.
Towering above the seas and dwarfing the ferry passing by, this is the world’s largest cruise ship on its stately progress through the Solent.
The South Coast was given a sneak preview of the just-completed Oasis of the Seas yesterday as it prepared to cross the Atlantic, stopping briefly to drop off 300 workers who have been putting the finishing touches to its on-board luxuries.
November 7, 2009
October 27, 2009
A Few Days In Scotland
On our return from spending a week in our favourite county of Cornwall we decided to take a trip northwards across the border into Scotland, we thought as we had spent a week in the Southern most county then why not.
The weather was half decent for Scotland so we took the chance, we new the Carnival season was about to get underway so we filled in a few days as we new we were going to photograph the Carnival, we are not normally the type of people who sit at home.
Not knowing much about Scotland we spent four nights in Ullapool, at a price, but what the heck.
We are going to have a Christmas holiday in Cornwall, but more of that after Christmas.
October 21, 2009
A Masterpiece Of Set Design
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After the first set of images published here on my blog I was commended for the outcome of the quality and lighting and faithful reproduction.
The set designers, members of the Ilminster in Somerset based “Gemini Carnival Club” submitted as their entry to this years Carnival, their float named “TO THE TREES” “ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES” with music from the film Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves by Michael Kaman.
I was said to me that I faithfully reproduced the images of the float which was entered in the “Tableaux” section of all the processions, the word Tableaux means all participants aboard the float have to stand statue like and not move in anyway, which I would imagine takes a lot of concentration.
The float was designed with Trees, small thatched buildings, quite a few horses (models of course) including foliage, period costumes and a lot of armoury like swords, axes, bows and arrows, and of course a lot of stage blood.
The lighting was its crowning glory and earned it the heading “A MASTER OF SET DESIGN” I personally have worked in Television and the sets have to be as good as the actors and actresses who appear in them, this I am sure is what the team at Gemini Carnival Club set out to achieve and they succeeded, it made me feel so proud as a photographer to produce the images I did.
THE IMAGES
ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THEIVES 1991……….. Original Film Crew
Produced by
Gary Barber …. executive producer
Pen Densham …. producer
Michael J. Kagan …. co-producer
Richard Barton Lewis… producer
David Nicksay …. executive producer
James G. Robinson…. executive producer
John Watson …. producer
Kevin Costner …. producer (uncredited)
Original Music by
Michael Kamen
Cinematography by
Douglas Milsome
Film Editing by
Peter Boyle
Casting by
Noel Davis
Ilene Starger
Jeremy Zimmerman
Production Design by
John Graysmark
Art Direction by
Fred Carter
Costume Design by
John Bloomfield
Makeup Department
Christine Allsopp …. makeup artist
Lynda Armstrong …. makeup artist
Daniel Parker …. makeup artist
Lisa Tomblin …. hair stylist
Production Management
Malcolm J. Christopher …. production supervisor (as Malcolm Christopher)
Michael Hartman …. production manager
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Lee Cleary …. key second assistant director
Jamie Fowlds …. trainee assistant director
Marios Hamboulides …. trainee assistant director
Nick Heckstall-Smith …. second assistant director: second unit
Peter Heslop …. second second assistant director
Mark Illsley …. second unit director
Max Kleven …. second unit director: action sequence
Adam Somner …. third assistant director
David Tringham …. first assistant director
Art Department
Alan Cheevers …. plasterer
John Chisholm …. property master
Dominique Coste …. art department
Patricia Johnson …. draughtsman
Gwendolyn Margetson …. draftsperson
Giles Masters …. assistant art director
Mark Reynolds …. stand-by props: second unit
Bill Stallion …. storyboard artist
Sound Department
Anna Behlmer …. sound re-recording mixer
Joe Dorn …. adr editor
Robert Grieve …. supervising sound editor
Steve Mann …. sound effects editor
Courtenay Marvin …. assistant sound editor
James Matheny …. dialogue editor
Chris Munro …. sound mixer
Greg Orloff …. foley mixer
Judy Oseransky …. assistant sound editor
Roy Seeger …. assistant adr editor
Frank Smathers …. dialogue editor
Mark Smith …. sound re-recording mixer
Otto Snel …. sound re-recording mixer
Lionel Strutt …. adr mixer
David Williams …. dialogue editor
David W. Alstadter …. foley mixer (uncredited)
Carmen Flores De Tanis …. assistant sound editor (uncredited)
David R. Finkelstein …. assistant foley editor (uncredited)
Dennis Leonard …. additional sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
John Roesch …. foley artist (uncredited)
Carolyn Tapp …. foley recordist (uncredited)
Special Effects by
Steve Hamilton …. senior special effects technician
Barry Whitrod …. special effects
Visual Effects by
Craig Barron …. visual effects supervisor: Matte World
Rob Burton …. visual effects
Krystyna Demkowicz …. executive in charge of production: Matte World
Joel Hladecek …. motion control camera
Rich McKay …. camera assistant
Michael Pangrazio …. matte artist supervisor
This in no way implies that any other Carnival Club does their best THEY DO-ALL OF THEM, I have just been asked to write this and add my images.
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October 15, 2009
Somerset Carnival Season – Taunton Carnival
Its the turn this week of the County Town of Somerset, Taunton Carnival
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October 10, 2009
Somerset Carnival Season Continues-Chard Carnival
We are onto our third Carnival of the South Somerset Circuit, this week it is the turn of Chard.
The town of Chard usually put on a good show, the usual floats will be there including some locals, they get into the spirit of carnival.
I have been covering Carnival for many years and each town has its own way of celebrating with their own style, if as is usual at Chard there are some locals we will have the pictures here(recession permitting), yes the recession is even hitting the Carnival parades, so lets see what Chard has in store for us.
As you will have noticed I have removed the weather map but I have again contacted the Meteorological Office and the weather is still FINE for tomorrow evening 10 October.
The weather was exceptional and the Carnival started on time 7.30pm, there were quite a few entries in the parade but all did not go as planned, well, the Carnival did until there was a hold up just after the last float `Gemini Carnival Club` started their tour round the town, after they got some 200 yards everything came to a stand still, apparently one of the early floats reached the centre of the town, I cannot say who as I was not told but their float snagged a power line in the middle of the town, this brought the procession to a standstill, we managed to potograph all the entries but the police, fire and I assume the electricity company had to free the occupants from the float then the float itself for safetys sake.
The Carnival was meant to do a second tour of the town , a double helping for the crowds but everything had to stop, we got back to our car but all roads were closed for safety so we had to wait an hour before being admitted out, we were going on a different route to where the cable was down so we were let go, we managed to reach home at midnight, other must have been later, I presume the large floats would return the day after. No-one was hurt and everyone showed a lot of patience for the sake of safety.
I am on this occasion going to put the Gemini Canival Club on a seperate post as there are so many pictures, not for any reason other than we had time to photograph the whole float.
October 3, 2009
Somerset Carnival Season – Ilminster
This is the second Carnival in the Somerset circuit, Ilminster is a small market town South of Taunton.
Ilminster always have some good organisation and put on a well organised show with more entries than most towns. There are prizes for 1st, 2nd and third in their different classes, there is a cup for “Spirit of Carnival” the results don`t show here as they are not announced until late and we like to get back after a full day at the Carnival, thats from 2.00pm until 10.00pm, a full day but very enjoyable, I met lots of people I had not seen since my Television days.
Next Week Saturday 10 October 2009 — Myself and Lisa will be joining everyone at Chard Carnival-Join Us Here For All The Pictures
September 26, 2009
Somerset Carnival Season
Today Saturday 26 September saw the start of the Somerset Carnival Season, whats it all about, it celebrates Guy Fawkes and the gunpowder plot from 1604, in all there are 12 towns around Somerset who celebrate this with their own Carnival, the towns being, Wellington-Ilminster-Chard-Taunton-Yeovil, thats the South Somerset circuit.
On the closest Friday to November 5th its the turn of the North Somerset circuit, joined by the South Somerset clubs starting at the largest Carnival at Bridgwater then North Petherton-Burnham On Sea-Shepton Mallet-Wells-Glastonbury with the grand finale at Weston Super Mare.
There are many walking entries to hand pushed carts, the larger clubs well thats a different story, let me explain.
The largest float is 11 foot wide, 17 foot tall and 100 foot long, it will consist of a generator producing 400 watts to 1 megawatt and the average number of light bulbs can reach the region of about 25,000 including several electric motors for all the moving parts, thats no mean feat as it takes a whole year to build one of these gigantic floats.
Over the years they have got a lot smaller as less and less young people don`t want to join these activities, which is a shame as this culture could end one day, lets face it, the more young people who are involved not only keep the Carnival culture alive but it keeps them busy and not out on the streets causing trouble. One thing I have not mentioned which is important, throughout the Carnival parade in every town there is a constant collection of money which goes to local charities, now that has to be good.
Next Week 3 October 2009 …… ILMINSTER CARNIVAL …….
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September 7, 2009
Cornwall 2009 – 2
An over view of our photographic journey (holiday) to Cornwall, its rather an understatement to say Cornwall is my favourite county, no matter how many times I visit there is always something I will have missed, more time is needed, every time.
I was born in Manchester and was, several years ago, given the opportunity to move to the West country, I grabbed that opportunity and have never looked back, it gave me the chance to further my career and move from, in my opinion, the humdrum life I was living, am I happy about this, Oh Yes Indeed!
Thank You to Keith and Julie for adding to my knowledge of Cornwall see there blog http://keithhargreaves.blogspot.com
also to Ednovean Farm for letting us drop in unannounced at http://ednoveanfarm.blogspot.com
Also to Sue who we did not get to meet but supplied me with some good information and visits my blog http://aroundperranuthnoe.blogspot.com
Also to The Abbot for re-naming our holiday to “Photographic Journey” http://abbeyofastoend.blogspot.com
Now we have to go back to Somerset but we are armed with knowledge we did not have before we came.
Managed to uploadd the Scillonian III image to www.shipspotting.com Rather pleased with myself
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