Wordless Wednesday

Photography

As it’s quiet at work today, I thought I’d take the chance to upload some more pictures.                  This first one was at a Country Park near to us, taken in August, there was an Owl display there and just as I was setting up the shot for this Barn Owl, he decided that he’d pop off his perch and land on my lens. This was just as he was about to take off. Of course, he didn’t fit on the end of my lens and fell to the ground, unsure of what had just happened, so I picked him up and put him back on his perch, managing to wrap myself in his tether while I was doing it! The owner was a lovely guy, who spoke to me for a while and he unravelled me from the owl.

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago at the Victorian village near to Ironbridge, a “living museum”. I was particularly struck by the tones of white the painted stone gave off from the light through the window, contrasting with the black hat and the colour from the berries.

I hope you enjoy them and look forward to any feedback.

The Old Pain Returns

After feeling pretty good yesterday, though I wasn’t expecting to, I had a really bad night last night.

I’d had a very physical day at work on Tuesday and expected to pay for it that night and yesterday, but after a bath and an early night, I slept relatively well and awoke yesterday morning feeling ok.

Routine as normal last night, shower, use the Alpha Stim, pain levels pretty low overall, so I went to bed quietly confident of a decent night. However, I was soon awakened with my old knee pain, this is very different from the FM pain I get, it is an old problem (I had both my knees operated on some years ago to relocate the knee caps) that appears to be rearing its (painfully) ugly head.

Now I’m trying to put a positive spin on this and think that maybe my FM is taking a back seat, with the treatment its been getting, and that’s allowing this old problem to show itself again, but that’s a difficult thought process, especially this morning after about 2.5 hrs sleep.The trouble is that the pain is so distracting, I find it difficult to do anything else, my normal insomnia allows me to occupy my mind with other things to try and make myself drowsy, but with last nights pain I just couldn’t concentrate, I tried reading, TV, Editing photos, music, but I couldn’t lie still enough for long enough to get off to sleep 😦

Anyway, apart from that, I am still in the process of moving some images across to my dropbox account so I can put them up on here and will try to share some with you in random posts, so here’s today. As ever, any feedback is welcome as long as it’s constructive!  🙂

This is Ironbridge, the first bridge of its kind anywhere in the world, spanning the River Severn at the town of the same name. Taken on Sunday during our weekend trip.

I’m now going to see if I can relax for a few hours before I need to go to site..At least I have my day off tomorrow, got a booking to photograph a friend’s Dog, Monty the Wippet, who’s a real character, so looking forward to that 🙂

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First Order!

What a weekend!

Me and Ali went off to Ironbridge Gorge, where we visited Blists Hill Victorian Museum, which was great, ending with the best raspberry ripple ice cream I’ve ever had 🙂 . Then on Saturday went to Ironbridge itself, which is stunning, the village is lovely, set amongst the hills and forests of the local area. I’ll put some pictures on when I’ve finished them.

Of course, I’ve paid for it in the last couple of days, shoulder pain, leg pain, sleeplessness, finger pain, you name it etc etc… and then back to the 9-5 today 😦

On the plus side, I got my first photo order today, so Thanks Emma, I’m glad you liked the pictures enough to order some :)…(Guess what I’ll be doing tonight).

As regards the Alpha Stim, I’m not sure how much help its been this weekend, whether I’d have been even worse without it, or it made no difference at all, who knows. All I can do is press on with it for a few more weeks and hope it starts having a long term effect. On the whole I think i slept better last week than I have for a long time, so I’m hoping that’s a sign that it’s working 🙂

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