General Chit Chat, This and That

Still not made a decision about printer, dithering.

Weekend was good, nice walk on Ilkley moor, very busy though everyone else had the same idea.

All my talk about bad weather for rugby photography, it was perfect on Saturday, third team against Old Brods all taken, edited and uploaded to website. The first team were away to Sandal, unfortunately Ilkley lost but are still well placed in the league. The first team play Heath at Ilkley this Saturday so will be there to photograph.

Busy at moment preparing new website ( No.3 ).

 

This time thinking forward and preparing image library, intend to host a temporary page with slideshow and links to current sites until all ready.

Also getting prepared to do food photoshoot this week, approx. twenty dishes, I want to know who's going to eat the food when were finished, should I take a large doggy bag. Maybe start the diet next week.

Printer Dilema

Well after giving you the guided tour of Nice yesterday I have to say its a beautifull day here in Ilkley, hardly a cloud in the sky. Went out this morning to Costa Coffee at nine am for weekly meeting with my Webmaster KJ who looks after my photo sites. We usually discuss IT issues, websites and then all manner of things, one item was the possible purchase of a new printer. My existing HP printer is six or seven years old and has had several expensive replacement ink cartridges and its now due two more but it would seem to be more ecomical to buy a new printer so I persuaded KJ to accompany me to the computer shop next door ( very convenient ). With the help of the very knowledgable shop assistant we managed to cut the choice down to either a Canon or Epsom multipurpose printer ,scanner and copier both very ecomically priced at £49.99 each, finally I decided the Canon would suit very well, then I realised as access was required to the top of the printer/scanner and it was a much larger item than my printer the only place it would fit in my cramped office/bedroom was where the television resided. At this point I had to tell the assistant " I would think about it "so thats where we are, I want the printer but Idont want to move the TV out of my office, not that I'm a telly addict but its somtimes nice to have the company.
Just had lunch and watched thirty mins of Jesse James showing me how not to rob a bank, there you see where would I be without the telly.
Just looked out of the window, the sun still shining, very frustrating as most of the afternoon will be spent in front of the computer image editing, hope the weather continues to the weekend as I have some rugby to photograph on Saturday. Usually this time of year the weather for the rugby is cloudy, cold and light levels are getting very low towards the end of the game which means I have to make juggle various combinations of settings to the camera to get anything like an acceptable photo, did suggest to the lads they slowed the pace a little, much laughter.

Beach and Beers in Nice, Cote d'Azure

Well I think until I get the hang of this were going to have a lot of ramblings so please be patient.

Think I will start with my age I am sixty one and just starting to creak a little, more so in the mornings getting out of bed, not quite as bad on Saturday and Sunday when the suns shining. 

Then I start to think about holidays, favourite place at the moment is Nice in the south of France. Been there a couple of times and have some good memories,the whole character of the place is fantastic, just to sit outside one of the little bars with a cold beer and the hot sun on your face watching the world go by ( thankyou Jet2 ). 

Yes its a wonderful place as is the whole coastline in that area. Unfortunately only one drawback, the beach ! no sand gently sifting through your toes just lots and lots of pebbles, very painfull, though as you can see from the photos there are some advantages in going to the beach. 

A must to visit in Nice is the old part of the city with its winding narrow streets full of shops and bars and then more bars, must have spent many a happy hour there and even more time trying to find my way out after sampling the beers. 

Ah! fond memories, told you I was going to ramble didn't I.

The Start

Well, finished my editing, finished my filing, telephoned my clients, what shall I do now, lets write a blog.

Everyone does it, must be easy, Mmmmmm