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I rather like this photo. It was taken about 4 hours after the last motorbike photo, and it was a rather nice result.
Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
Focal Length: 55.0 mm
ISO Speed: 200
I walked up to the road and instantly had to bring up my camera for this. One of my favourite shots! Check the full size version to really see his sharpness despite the blur!
Its only the fence at the bottom of the garden, but I quite like the result. Click on it to view it on flickr with the details.
Sometimes something that happens in the moment is of little significance and yet it sticks with you forever.
I think these memories can best be explained with relation to people. Think about someone, in real life or that you’ve seen on tv or suchlike somewhere. You will probably only have one or a few thoughts of that person. A couple of enduring memories.
I was going to title this post, ‘my enduring memory of jamie oliver’, but when I think about him, two spring to mind.
My coming to this is because one of my two enduring memories of a TV chef called Jamie Oliver has been rather beneficial.
One of his series he goes around showing the state of school dinners, and trying to get children to eat more healthy options. He similarly has to make the healthy options actually taste nice or he’s doomed to fail.
I only saw a little of the series, but in one episode I remember a dinner lady’s complaint at his adding salt to mashed potatoes as “we’re not allowed to add any salt”. Having given her a taste before, and after the salt was added she does concede that it tastes significantly better.
This in mind, when I made some mashed potatoes as a pre-bed bite to eat for later on, I made sure to add a good dose of salt. I had to stop myself from simply eating it all there and then, as plain tatties with a little butter and saly tasted so awesome!
I’d gone fror mashed potatoes as some videos of chefs cooking I’d seen showed them taking some big shortcuts. They had good things to say about reheated mashed potatoes, EVEN in the microwave! Also my mother was telling me on the phone the other night that my eldest sister used to make her week’s food on Saturday and freeze it. I thought some mashed potatoes in the freezer each week could be put to good use.
As an aside, the other memory is of Jamie Oliver dumping the meat out of sausages roughly to make meatballs, with the approximate phrase “Life’s too short to make it look nice”.
On another aside. Is it possible that these singular memories come in different sorts, with the other being the vague recollection of past happenings, that when similar occurences happen, we get the experience of déjà vu? Food for thought for you, and I’d best go as I’ve food on the brain 
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On a last aside. Having 3 other sides makes this post a square. If you’re being pedantic, a rectangle. If you’re being really pedantic, given all sides are of uneven length its best to refer to it as a four-sided polygon.
I managed to freak myself out a bit.
I was watching a Horizon program on violence and they were talking about how damage to the front of the brain in a car accident can seriously damage the front part of the brain which means its harder to control aggression.
Anyway I started scribbling in paint while drawing it, and I had a bit of a mess and started to draw a few lines coming out of it and eventually decided it looked like a car and so drew the back into a car. Deciding it was a mess with the messed up front, I shut the program, and going back to what I was watching I realised I’d essentially drawn a car with a bashed up front!
Subliminal suggestion or persuasion!
I’m quite pleased with how sharp my lens can be.
It took me like 90 minutes. A bit more adept with the software, and using the mouse. For someone with no drawing abilities whatsoever, its not bad!
It does lack some detail that I won’t put in just now.
This shot didn’t jump out at first, but the more I look at it, the more I like it.
Any comments?
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Camera: Nikon D40
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/5.3
Focal Length: 150 mm
Focal Length: 151.0 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: No Flash
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