MERRY CHRISTMAS!

home

3 from the street outside my mums

the longest journey begins with a bumpy 14 hours to Dubai

finally got here in one piece...finally, was all a bit of a disaster, flight circled Birmingham for an hour then got sent up to Newcastle, managed to land a 777-300 on a too short runway, that was an experience, stopped a few feet short of the grass at the end of the runway... sat on the apron for 2.5 hours before getting off with the offer of a coach back to Birmingham....Newcastle to Birmingham on a coach....in the snow...no thanks.
So i made a dash on the Newcastle metro to Newcastle central, avoided the drunks and got a train to Birmingham, arrived 14+ hours later than imagined, twas a long 48 hours of travel!

pommie's last surf before blighty - and a dent or two

the big beautiful blue beast has a bruise

the matador

keith - sampling the spit

two tones

things have been quiet on the blog of late - ive taken lots of photos - of everything and nothing.
i leave for the summer soon - back to the snow and cold and 5mm rubber of a winter in UK - im looking forward to some uncrowded points.
The swimfins have been getting a work out recently - some long rides on shories - much fun.

ring exchange

beautiful peoples beautiful day

nothing much of late

havent been out with the camera, been trying to get this mangled finger contort back into fretting B and F....

this fella seems to be off somewhere interesting...

stylin

morning birds and tiltshift tom-foolery

 off somehwere importantly unimportant no doubt

tiltshifted

a subtle art

a fireman that skates

3 skate shots

car park fun and 1st attempt at speed blur

ibis

morning greens at the poss

is keeping the mangled finger!

new school/old school

 plastic camera fun on this mornings walk. in this digital age, of megapixel craziness, sometimes its nice for the edges to bleed, and for quality to step aside and subject take centre stage - sun, grasses, sand.

chaddy mac - grove reef