The things you see when you havn't got your camera

Sat quietly by the side of a Cheshire lake some weeks ago, waiting for some unsuspecting fish to come my way, my attention was taken by a splash some 20 feet to my left  as I turned to look I was greeted with the sight of a Kingfisher doing the same as me but with a lot more success, it flew onto a nearby branch with the fish still writhing in its beak and stayed for several seconds, plenty of time for me to get several shots off had I had a camera, its beautiful blue and turquoise plumage against the lush green of the tree would have made a wonderful photo.
A lesson to be learned here perhaps ?. here are some photo's I didn't miss they where taken when out for an evening meal with friends at Conway North Wales, I hope you like them.

New Beatles Images

Just to let Beatles fans outside of the UK know that a series of new and previously unreleased early photographs are available here, Enjoy.

Weekend in Amsterdam

Apologies first of all to those who have been waiting for me to actually post something on this blog, as you can no doubt see I started this in November 2009 but have not until now got around to doing anything with these pages, so with renewed enthusiasm here we go, new look, new title and new photo's.

Weekend in Amsterdam

this unplanned spur of the moment weekend started with a very uneventful long drive to Newcastle in the north east of the UK and then the overnight crossing to Amsterdam. On board the Princess of Norway things had changed very little since we last sailed some 4 years ago, the bar prices were a little higher but the quality and choice of the food was still excellent, the North Sea was flat calm thankfully (we had gigantic waves last time) and overall it was a very pleasant crossing. So what can I tell you about Amsterdam, well it has very beautiful architecture wonderful canals and lots of smiley people, it is expensive like most major European cities but well worth the visit, if you have been then you would probably agree that the place has a certain air about it that beckons you back (and I don't mean the wafts of air from some of the cafe's). so here are a few of the images taken whilst there, I need to work out how to size these photo's so that they look bigger once in the blog, see you soon.

Market place just of Rembrante Bridge

Delivery trike

North Sea Sunset