Do you have a favourite pic on flickr that you would like to Christmas-up?
Well all you have to do is add a new note with the text "ho ho ho hat" or "ho ho ho beard" and you get a Santa hat or beard that you can resize on any of your photos.
Also adding "?snow=1" at the end of any flickr url gives you snow.
So your Christmas e-cards could look a little like this or this or this.
today i wanted to start off writing about my little journey to the chilly island of England
but i have something better to write about
much better
having bought the missus a brand spanking new fancy zoomy dslr camera we decided to 'take that baby for a test drive' and headed down to the beach
we got LOADS of aces photos
i recommend you check out flickr/thepinkjellybaby shortly for some really good photos
but as we walked in to some garden to try and get some 'flowery' macro shots the missus spotted this guy having a rest on a plant
a goddamn praying mantis (with the missus elbow in the background, she was too scared to get close :D ha)
-and check out the bigger pictures for much better detail-
how many levels of awesome is that?
and i am so pleased that the camera not only has a great macro mode but is aces at capturing fantastic colours
but now i'm not sure whether this or the octopus is the best thing i've seen EVER!
[update]
here are some of my favourite photos of the praying mantis
Are you looking at me?
I spy...
well i finally got to the shower...
but for some reason i did everything backwards today?
normally i go
shampoo-wash face-wash body
but today i went
wash body-wash face-shampoo
i might be entering Bizarro World
Hello, good morning!
Since coming back to England I've gotten less sleep then normal, drank more alcohol in the last few days then in the last few weeks (not just thanks to me dad)
You will be able to see that we do have some milk and cheese in there for tea and the missus does have her own drink as well. That lonely little Smirnoff.
Also it's been freezing here. And as I kind of threw out most of my clothes before leaving for Spain I didn't have many warm clothes.
In fact all I had were three jumpers.
And I shrunk one when at me mums.
Which now leads to, I have had a cold (or flu, don't know which?) which weirdly only lasted a few hours but made me feel really run down and horrible last night.
Although a few of the good points are opening presents early. Including the missus brand spanking new camera which has a pretty cool supermacro mode.
Click for a bigger picture were you can see all the leg hairs. Maybe this fly was a little too scared of hearing of a Venus.
I do want to try and take some photos of the moon with the 18x zoom but not until I have some warmer clothes.
Just released is Opera 10 Preview. It's like a mini Christmas present.
Shame I have to travel for the next 6 hours and don't get to play on it for a while.
Go have a play with it.
[Link]
Tomorrow I haed back to England for a few days for Christmas and catch up with friends.
I'm very much looking forward to it. Having a drink and watching football with me dad. Chewing the fat and catching up with friends. Having a tasty pizza from The Asda.
Oh and having an early Christmas.
(Although Christmas has come an little early as me mum purchased me the fantasic 100 billion zombie on screen, shoot em up left4dead. Very Christmas-y)
Speaking of Christmas last year my dad got me Star Wars 4 and 6 (the very first and third movies released, for those not sure)
As you can tell he had missed out episode 5. Which is kind of important in a trilogy.
I never got round to watching those DVD's, but hopefully I should be getting the missing piece to the jigsaw.
(To dad, if you're reading this, this doesn't mean you should go out and get 5, it may already be wrapped up and under a tree somewhere.)
But for those people out there loking to get DVD's for friends and family, if your gonna get a trilogy of films, make sure you get all three.
A little weather news.
This weekend it has been freezing cold here.
So cold I even felt chilly with just my jumper on in the evening!
So cold that it actually snowed on the hills right behind where we live.
The big hill right behind where we live with it's snowy top.
I was actually on my way to play football when I took these shots with my phone.
And yes, it was chilly playing football.
Some of the more mountain-y hills a little further away where covered even more in snow.
I was told by someone that this was the closest there had been snow fall to Nerja (probably less then 5km away) in a very long time.
I did get a few other better shots today as I made my way to the market with my camera, I'll upload/post them a little later.
This is a shot from the bus.
And this (slightly) snowy hill panorama.
It's very unfortunate that I didn't have the missus BRAND SPANKING NEW camera.
I've just ordered for her (it's ok she knows already) some Fujifilm long zoom range Finepix that has 18x zoom on it. I could of taken photographs of the frozen, snow covered plants on top of them mountains from where I was stood with that camera!
