Original instagram

You may have noticed that since i got an iPhone last Spring i have preferred to use Instagram photos for blog posts. This is because i think the format and size works well with the blog, and also looks fairly cool. Before the invention of instagram we had to do photos like that the old fashioned way of course with film cameras. I found a few old photos my Dad took in the early 70s when we lived in Crosby. These were his prized roses that he had to leave behind when we moved to Birmingham! To think that it requires a lot of computing power and software to produce such a photo now...

Up north

I've just spent a couple of enjoyable days up in Lancashire, one of my cousins getting married yesterday in Ashton-in-Makerfield just outside St. Helens. A highlight was the view out of my hotel window though. In the field were a number of old horses, one of the horses (i am sure) looked me in the eye and then squatted down slightly to wee. I consider this horse (the one on the far right below) to a true honest critic of my work.

It was nice to go up, the only problem being the rain which was on-and-off all day, it doesn't always rain in the north of course. Just most of the time.