Mikes personal Web log
I haven’t had enough time to finish up the entire “studio” section of this site like I originally wanted - so I’ve put those plans on hold for a moment.
Anyway, in the meantime I’ve put a page together to provide links to a few of my tracks.
It’s better than having a non-functioning link on my menubar.
Seeing Yve in action as a riding instructor this weekend was really good. In all the time I’ve been with her
I’ve never seen her teach, which is a shame as she looks right at home in the arena. She’s teaching Charlie and Rhia at the moment, as well as a couple of (more advanced) lessons for the yard.
I was just there to take photos - I chose the 70-200 2.8 mounted on a monopod for the shoot. Urgh!!! If I thought taking band photos was hard because of the lack of light, this was a real experience. The arena was in almost complete darkness, the lights that were there seemed to cast no illumination at all.
Thank Nikon for ISO’s faster than 1000 that’s all I have to say on the matter! I might go along next week - I think I can do a lot better…
Wooo!!!
I’ve just had the strangely exciting experience of seeing one of my photo’s on the Flickr Explore page (http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/?). To celebrate this dubious honour, I just had to take a screenshot.
According to Flickr Scout, I’ve reached #223 in the Interestingness chart - probably not that meaningful in the grand scheme of things, but at the moment ’tis a source of pride for myself! Just think of how many images are uploaded to Flickr each day.
Update - Blimey, actually getting into explore seems to make a bit of a difference - I’ve had a shed load more views than I would normally expect, and the Interestingness ranking for that picture has just reached #92!
Update #2 - Good grief, left alone for a couple of days and the picture is racing up the rankings and is now #38! I know this is a fairly meaningless metric, but it sure is entertaining.
