When in September 2005 my wife and I made our first trip to the Lake District we loved it so much up there that we vowed to return. Well almost exactly 4 years later we did just that and have just returned from a two week holiday up there. Whereas last time we stayed in the tiny village of Troutbeck close to Windermere, this time we stayed practically on the banks of Ullswater close to the lovely village of Pooley Bridge.
This weekend we made a trip to Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent primarily as a birthday treat for my wife's niece but I also took my camera gear with me in the hope of getting some new shots of the animals. So I took along my Canon EOS 30D and my Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L USM along with my Canon 2x Teleconverter and a monopod to see what I could get.
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Last weekend we visited Standen which is owned by the National Trust which is a lovely house set in beautiful grounds in East Grinstead, West Sussex. Not only is it a nice place to simply look around but it also meant that I could try and get a few photos of the many flowers there as I don't often photograph floral subjects.
Television is literally everywhere these days. Gone are the days where you came home to watch four channels on your 21" CRT Television, now we have hundreds of channels, 50" widescreen Plasma or LCD Hi-Definition televisions, television on our computers, laptops and portable devices and now even on our mobile phones thanks largely to the BBC's iPlayer. The iPhone though is restricted to only being able to stream programs from iPlayer which basically restricts you to only doing this when you have a Wi-Fi connection. Until now.
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