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Contents
Queen Elizabeth 2nd
time capsule April May iPad and Podcast
Sunrise on Wanstead Flats
Kew Gardens
Cooking Monkfish with Cider in Galicia
Time capsule for July 25th to August 8th, 2010
time capsule June 8th to June 22nd, 2010

Queen Elizabeth 2nd

Posted on 09/05 by Andy Roberts

Queen Elizabeth 2nd, a photo by AndyRobertsPhotos on Flickr.

I must have been in a funny mood when I stopped to photograph this damp patch on the pavement just because the shape of it jumped out at me for looking a bit like the Queen’s head. It’s a phenomenon called “Pareidolia” which I’ve written about before in evidence-of-life-on-mars-and-figures-found-in-rocks Pareidolia is when a vague or random image is perceived as recognisable. The old ink blot phenomenon beloved of psychologists in old films and comedy. Maybe you can’t see the face at all? It’s not quite as obvious as the previous example, the face in the rock:

Posted in Flickr, Randomness | Tagged Elizabeth, face, Head, life on mars, pavement, phenomenon, Photograph, psychologists, Queen, queen elizabeth, shape |

time capsule April May iPad and Podcast

Posted on 01/05 by Andy Roberts

I get sent these ‘time capsules’ about once a fortnight, depending on whether or not I uploaded any interesting photographs about one year ago, and they usually serve to remind me of something worth revisiting, even if it’s only to get an idea of how time is passing where different events fit together. The one below shows that I’d only just got a new iPad and had started to experiment with photo manipulation apps such as tinyplanet, and a very basic wireframe drawing app. There’s also a mindmap created on the iPad, and a picture of the Theatre Royal theatre bar in Stratford, where I’d played a few songs that ended up on one of my podcasts.

tiny cars #TinyPlanet

Taken April 26, 2011 at 4:57 pm

Radio

Taken April 29, 2011 at 10:07 pm

Some things I can’t do on the ipad 2 yet.

Taken May 3, 2011 at 3:28 pm

showoff

Taken May 6, 2011 at 10:46 pm

Knees up Theatre Royal Podcast #46

andyroberts.me/podcast/from-the-theatre-bar-theatre-royal…

Taken May 8, 2011 at 9:01 pm

Posted in Flickr, General, iPad2, podcast |

Sunrise on Wanstead Flats

Posted on 16/10 by Andy Roberts

I generally wake early and get started online before breakfast but yesterday I decided to try a sunrise walk around the Alexandra Lake at Wanstead Flats. That’s where I often end up taking some exercise later in the day anyway, but the sky was clear and there are supposed to be some interesting migrant birds heading our way at this time of year.

Leaving the house I could feel the air was cold but on approaching the green open space that is the flats I could see layers of mist suspended over the frosted grass. When the sun poked up over the lines of trees it lit up the landscape with golden light.

Wanstead Flats Sunrise October 15th

Posted in Flickr, General, London, wildlife | Tagged alexandra, Alexandra Lake, migrant birds, October, Wanstead, wanstead flats |

Kew Gardens

Posted on 11/10 by Andy Roberts

There are many folly buildings at Kew Gardens and yesterday I learned that the person who instigated them had a swivel chair installed inside the little domed colonade at the top of the hill near the lake next to the Palm House. From that vantage point she could survey the results of the gardeners’ labour. The view would have been much different in those days but I thought I’d make a mock swivel chair video of the view from yesterday at Kew Gardens.

Many more Kew Gardens photos are amongst my photosets on Flickr such as :

Kew Gardens October 2011

Kew Gardens

Collection of Kew Gardens Photosets

Posted in Flickr, London, video | Tagged colonade, Flickr, folly, garden, Kew, kew gardens, palm house, photo, photosets, swivel chair, video |

Cooking Monkfish with Cider in Galicia

Posted on 28/09 by Andy Roberts

Hello, I’m cooking fresh fish with cider over a trangia camping stove in sunny Galicia, northern Spain.

With videography by Evan Roberts, this youTube is pretty self explanatory.

The actual location is a campsite at Camping Moreiras, O Grove, Pontevedra, Galicia. The fish, a whole monkfish, came from the fish market on the harbour at O Grove itself, as did the vegetables and the cider is an Asturian Sidra Natural obtaine en route from one of many Eroski supermarkets.

Just a bit of fun really, but it captures one of many happy mealtimes from a memorable holiday touring Asturias and Galicia in September 2011. There are loads of photos online at both my collection and Linda’s Flickr photostreams.