My Photo Album

Dr Donald - The Answer Is 42

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If you like any of the photos here, a much more comprehensive and up-to-date batch are at http://www.flickr.com/photos/oggd/

There are a couple of things that I think keep us alive longer - laughing at our own absurdity and dogs.

Rosie

Here's Rosie, looking as active as ever. She's the mum. She doesn't get the 'retriever' bit at all. In fact she's more of a saunterer than a retriever. Ever affectionate she will lick you to death and loves nothing more than rivers or smelling disgusting.

One of the first pictures taken with my new DSLR. I like macro shots and whilst this isn't a 'true' macro (1:1, picture to subject ratio) it is as close as I can get right now.

I 'borrowed' an orange filter that we had in the lab (no, really I did put it back!) and all the pictures that day were shot with this orange glow. Only a couple worked as the filter attenuates the light a lot and produces underexposed picts that look too dark.

Wheat field in north Essex. Nice night - it went on to produce the sunset in the other column. Ended up with more wheat in my shoes than in the field, painful.

Bonnie

Here's Bonnie. She's the daughter and definitely 'retrieves'. She retrieves everything you don't want her to - and she'll chew it to pieces for good measure. At least one of my dogs chases a ball and makes me feel like a proper dog walker. Both dogs wouldn't know how to stop eating and are always on the scrounge.

Whilst out walking along the river Stour (one of us birdwatching the other one not) I snapped this trying to make a landscape interesting.

From the 'Essex is beautiful' files. Sunset over a village in north Essex, taken from the front upstairs window of my brother-in-law's new house.

First shot taken from a fort in Felixstowe. Tried to overexpose it to bring up the buildings in the mid-ground. Lots of kooky angles going on.

Second shot taken from aforementioned fort. My not-so-willing model trying to escape and adding not-meant-motion to an spooky corridor.