bottled dreams blog

shedding

2011-11-09T00:18:00.000Z

leafs after the rain

2011-11-08T22:57:00.000Z

Pumpkin portraits starting with a candle

2011-11-03T23:50:00.001Z

Owl

Tree (my fav)

This one started off as a fish tank ended up as an underwater scene

Dragon

Wheatley (dog ate his lid :/ )

Assface

Kims Carrage

Hols 11

2011-08-08T01:38:00.000+01:00

Decembers BIG chill

2011-01-03T18:57:00.000Z

Frost

2010-12-06T21:28:00.000Z

1) Coat London is sugar.
2) Go to bed.
3) Wake up far to early.
4) Go out and lick world
5) Realize the coating london in suger part was a dream
6) Try to take some pictures of spiderwebs heavy under the weight of frost.

Snow snaps

2010-12-01T18:27:00.001Z

Even old people love the snow... plus my little family of snowmen.

Happy birthday Woody

2010-11-20T18:21:00.000Z

Kim, Woody and Arnie the birthday present Armadillo.

Fog

2010-11-16T20:01:00.001Z

Fireworks!!

2010-11-07T21:04:00.000Z

Taking pictures of fireworks never really worked for me, i take a woosh or a flash of light and some smoke.. but the important part about fireworks is the people watching the "ohh" and "ahhh" effect they have. So this year i was wondering how i could get both the "ohh ahh" and the explosive lights in one shot in the tiny space.
The plan was to placed the camera at the other end of the garden undercover shooting back across the "launch pad and into the patio doors where people where cowering. Used a flash inside the house behind people bouncing off the walls to give them some light, strobe was set to mm maybe about 1/4 power. Then i would let the light from the firework hopefully light there faces.
After a few tests on the strobe placement and a couple of adjustments for the amount of light given off by the fireworks i was set.
I think next year ill try and light the peoples faces with a strobe too. leaving it to the fireworks is all very well but its not constant enough to get good results, anyway heres what i got.(btw the last 2 are no house flash battery's ran out so you can see the difference and because i just liked the pretty shapes)

unsharp eyes

2010-11-04T23:20:00.000Z

Is it me? or are the pictures uploaded directly to the blog seeming to be a little soft?

Natural history museum night safari

2010-11-04T00:01:00.001Z

I don't remember during the day really noticing the building much while busy peering at the exhibits.
But at night... the building comes alive and craves your attention just as much as any dinosaur might.
Its quite atmospheric at night and Halloween themed safari was very entertaining. Everyone attending (hmm about 150) really wanted to be there, the guides note the calm quite of the evening, after the days of loud echoing children. Plus their is something infectious that drives your fascination, when you are shown and told about things directly from a scientist or archivist who is passionate about there subject and sharing there knowledge with you.

Halloween 2010

2010-11-03T01:58:00.005Z

Going to try and give the pumpkins a gallery page of there own, with these added to last years.

Here is one of the 6 pumpkin scene from last year that i did this year too but didnt take a good picture of.

Duskfall

2010-10-25T19:37:00.000+01:00

Fungi season

2010-10-04T00:54:00.000+01:00

With all the rain I've found quite a few little shrooms around.

Michaelmas

2010-10-03T17:08:00.000+01:00

"Old Michaelmas Day, 10th October, is the last day that blackberries should be picked. It is said that on this day, when Lucifer was expelled from Heaven, he fell from the skies, straight onto a blackberry bush. He then cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, spat and stamped on them and made them unfit for consumption! And so the Irish proverb goes.."

“On Michaelmas Day the devil puts his foot on blackberries”.

First Harvest

2010-09-22T21:45:00.001+01:00

Its taking the tomatoes so long to ripen this year so few warm sunny days.
There is now and update on this years tomoatos over in my food blog.
http://food-scouting.blogspot.com/

Thank you

2010-09-07T01:36:00.000+01:00

Really was an amazing trip.
Goodbye California.

Thank you Serra, Mahm, Jack, Doug, everyone, for being so kind, for doing so much, for being who you all are, for everything.

Extras

2010-09-07T01:29:00.000+01:00

Last few pictures that didn't fit any other group.

Yosemite extra gallery. A few pictures from the other small sequoia grove including another tunnel tree. LINK

California extras gallery. Last few pictures from my trip back through central valley and San Francisco. Including this light painting in yellow green and blue which may be my favorite picture of the whole trip. LINK

Panorama Trail. Yosemite

2010-09-07T01:25:00.001+01:00

After taking a very early bus up to glacier point i followed the Panorama trail joining the mist trail all the way back to the valley floor.

Panorama trail gallery 1 Glacier point and down towards Nevada falls LINK

Panorama trail gallery 2 From the top of Nevada to the top of Vernal falls LINK

Panorama trail gallery 3. Vernal falls rainbows in the mist. LINK

Panorama trail gallery 4. Rainbows heading away from Vernal falls. LINK

Panorama trail gallery 5. Heading away from Vernal falls back down into the valley. LINK

Wowona and the Maraposa grove

2010-09-07T00:48:00.001+01:00

The only way to get to see the giant Sequoias from Yosemite valley without a car was to take the grand tour.

Wowona gallery. Just before getting to the trees a stop of at the Wowona hotel and the Pioneer Yosemite history center. I was lucky enough to be on the covered bridge just as a group of riders returned across it.

Mariposa grove gallery 1 almost of these pictures are taken from the little road train that the tour takes you on around the grove. Ideally I'd have spend a long time here just wondering among the trees.

Mariposa grove gallery 2. The problem i think is there little sense of scale in many of these pictures unless I've manged to get a tiny person looking at at the tree, but believe me they really are amazingly huge! LINK

Yosemite Waterfalls

2010-09-07T00:35:00.002+01:00

2 gallery's of being very lucky, most years there isnt any water falling over these 2 in August.

Yosemite falls gallery. I did hike to the top of the falls but found all the better pictures were to be taken from the bottom. LINK

Bridalveil falls gallery. The good thing about having this little water flowing over is that you can really see how it got its name, you can even see the veil begin to turn up. LINK

Yosemite Valley

2010-09-06T23:46:00.003+01:00

I'm going to split the posts up a bit and separate out different areas to make it a bit more simple to navigate because it seems like the gallery's for me at least are taking quite a while to load.

To begin 2 gallery's of pictures taken from the valley floor.

Yosemite valley gallery 1. Including the Native American village recreation and some beautiful tree bark.

Yosemite valley gallery 2. Including meadows, tunnel view and a bear!!

Dusting..

2010-09-05T13:55:00.004+01:00

Santa Barbara pictures
http://www.bottleddreams.net/SantabarbaraAug/index
Seems like ive been dusting Yosemite pictures for days. Lots of dust on the sensor after all the traveling.
had to play with some other pictures before i went dust bunny insane.
These are looking back at Santa Barbara from Stearns wharf, you know i wondered after my first visit if a really loved California because id heard so much about it i was now filling in pictures to go with stories, but no now i think i just really love Santa Barbara and California as a whole.

http://www.bottleddreams.net/SantabarbaraAug/index

Hereford Cathedral

2010-09-02T17:43:00.000+01:00

Home of amazing map Mappa Mundi and libarary of chained book felt very D'ni.
But alas no pictures were allowed of either of those so i had to make do with pictures of the Cathedral itself.
Loved the modern stained glass window, usually i always feel modern stained glass feels very angular and cold, but this was quite the opposite telling its story in a fantastical way.
http://www.bottleddreams.net/hereforcathedral/index

Paradise cottage

2010-09-02T17:31:00.000+01:00

This is the cottage we stayed in on our trip to Herefordshire.
Along half a mile of its on track into a little wood totally secluded and quiet little 17th century cottage.
http://www.bottleddreams.net/paradise/index

Fiesta Santa Barbara

2010-08-27T00:31:00.001+01:00

Felt like the whole place was celebrating the wedding.

http://www.bottleddreams.net/fiesta/

Birthday girl

2010-08-19T00:29:00.001+01:00

Pictures from my trip back to Lompoc for Serra's 21st

http://bottleddreams.net/serrasbirthday/

2010-08-10T02:51:00.004+01:00

http://bottleddreams.net/rehearsal/
http://bottleddreams.net/ceremony/
http://bottleddreams.net/reception/
http://bottleddreams.net/details/

(thx mahm fixed that broken link now)

Puzzlewood

2010-08-02T20:40:00.001+01:00

Just a quick link to the image dump gallery for pictures of the amazing puzzle wood.

http://www.bottleddreams.net/puzzlewood/

my shadow and i

2010-06-01T19:55:00.000+01:00

Summer Fields

2010-06-01T19:47:00.002+01:00

Waverley abbey

2010-06-01T19:45:00.000+01:00

31

2010-05-22T22:04:00.000+01:00

just a quick marking the day

Email test blog from iPhone

2010-04-19T23:27:00.000+01:00

landscape test

2010-04-19T20:31:00.000+01:00

portrait test pic

2010-04-19T20:28:00.000+01:00

second test

2010-04-19T19:59:00.001+01:00

hmm

what does this do?

test

2010-04-19T19:58:00.001+01:00

first post test
does this work?