pink cumulus (stratocumulus?)

here are a few photo's

urban abstract

here's another urban type simplified painting quite pleased with it myself and here is an unknown insecvt that buzzed me the other day- nearly fell off my bike!;:, well it was coming right at me !! anyone know what it was? it was canny big about three quaters of an inch black thich body very bright red wings.

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some sky stuff, a sundog I believe, just some crepuscular rays
some kind of corona.

patterns in the sand, enhanced by computerisation
more sand patterns enhanced by coal dust.

as the song says what a difference a day makes! two of the same but one day apart, from the now defunct Sansung camera which I dropped in the river! by mistake of course!

a couple of photos from a recent trip to the Lake district. I like this tree and its shadow; a duck had just swum by causing the ripples. this bird was in a tree being harassed by much smaller blackbirds just caught it but have no idea what it is.
morning is my best time, I like this misty lake, it's Windermere which is usually a bit busy but this was early and there was hardly anyone around.

snowwwwwwwwwwwww!

great day out on saturday lots of sunshine then sudden blizzards! what more could an artist/photographer ask for? Hexham then on to Allendale, more sun more snow lots of pictures a little sketching.
this is a petrolly puddle in the hills, looked intriguing in the sun

odd bird

this bird was sitting and looking a bit lost in teh tree across the road from our house anyone know what it is?

sun and clouds

a cool and windy but visually pleasant moring nice clouds above Tynemouth beach a couple of shy lemons and a glass of water. reflections in the wet sand, nice.

WENT UP A MOUNTAIN

or was it just a very high hill? Cat Bells in teh north Lake district, nice day nice walk met some nice folk!
this one is slightly askew! may try and fix it later.

mist!!!!!

often I say to my students that one of the good things about being into art is that you get to enjoy more weather! mist! great; out with camera! lovely lovely light with sun just smiling through and gentle reflections. Beautiful. another sunrise. Have been discussing the meaning of art a bit on a art discussing site (about.com:painting) is beauty just a subjective issue; how I feel about a sight, or is there some objective reality, is a sunrise truly beautiful no matter what I think or feel? should our appreciation and art production be aligned with what is in fact beautiful? Whatever; this is a beautiful sunrise. and that's a fact. which is more than you can say about some of my paintings.
back to the misty morning, a flock(?) of swans flew down the river and then came back, didn't realy capture the site but it was good to see and hear them in the mist. If you llok hard you might see them although if you look hard people might also be scared of you!

a little bit of Cullercoats

a few from yesterday a wery vindy day! esp on my bike. some dramatic skies as it changed so fast from completely overcast to completely clear and back again within a short time as the wind blew the clouds across.

apparently I have been linking stuff worng so here I am trying to do it right.

first highlight some text to act as a link mmm does that mean if you click that blue underlined sentence you get transported somewhere else? if it works let me know

by the way did you know penguin is welsh for white head or something like that?

actually that version isn't all that good I shall try another: click here instead see if that's better, the genuine article

newcastle and gateshead

here are a few from Newcastle and Gateshead This one is a window off Newcastle Bridge. This is cropped from the Newcastle skyline from Gateshead car park.
This is a nice set of reflections

this was a great day for clouds! all major clouds formations and species agree. there is something here but I'm not sure what a man chasing another with a sack on his back? who knows?
this was a biggun! I read that a medium size cumulus clouds contains water as heavy as 80 elephants!!!!!

here's an interesting cloud scudding, as writers like to descriibe it, across the windswept sky. sometimes (often) I take rubbish pictures, here's one; I have many such.
This was an awesome sky. it was indeed! Some clouds seem to make the sky bigger if you know what I mean.