I have so much crap to post, and have had so little motivation to do so! It’s sad because I know you will love that one pic of the cats being cute, but since when am I happy putting a post up with just one pic? Neverrrrr. So instead I goof off on FB or read everyone else’s blogs (and I’m massively behind on that, too).
I have to get these up here, as there are some pretty amazing pics if I say so meself.
Backstory; iDJ and I had just eaten one of his amazing weekend breakfasts and were finishing off the rest of the episode of Justified, or Marvel Agents of SHEILD, or maybe one of the old Voyager episodes… if you think I’m bad at reading blogs, imagine how much backlog of awesome TV I still have to watch. I don’t even have Grim yet.
Anyhoo. I glanced out the window at our mountain, and I see something awesome.
The fog bank had rolled over the top of our rather short mountain and had thinned out once over the top. I’d never seen this weird weather before in the nearly nine years we’ve lived in this house.
Hubby paused the TV (what, you think I get to touch the remote?), leapt up, and said we had to go get photos right now now now before it was too late!!!
So in pyjamas and steel-toe work boots, I gathered up my iPhone and his expensive camera and he drove like a madman to the parish cemetery – always the best spot for a view of the mountain.
I acted as a bad roadie for his expensive cam (the lenses had fingerprints on them! And no soft lens wipe in his massive case! Panic panic panic). But while he was being all professional I whipped out my iPhone and turned on my favourite B&W Hipstamatic setting, and took the three B&W pics above. Then the damn phone decided to choke and died, and once I had convinced it that yes, it did have battery life left, I got the colour one with the regular iPhone 4 cam.
This is the only photo iDJ took that he deemed worthy. Yeah, it’s awesome. But I’m so fond of mine that I actually signed up and submitted one to the National Geographic ‘your shot.’ Guess which one?
heretherebespiders 
The B&W with the tree in the middle. Terrific photo.
Is that the third one?
4th.
Yes, that’s the one I submitted! Glad I got it right!
We get each other! Terrific.
Second color one love it….love them all….seems we are all getting funky images to snap ..Mother Nature is a Menopausal Bee yartch at the moment!! bring on the fog I say..love seeing my sheep in the fog with the windmill in the background…all dust and dry and grey and drab…summer can bite my butt..and yes I hang the washing out in summer shortie pj pants and steel capped gumboots…joys of no close neighbours 😉 hugs Fozziemum x
Well, the graveyard IS right on the main road, so loads saw us in our jammies! I rather liked what I saw out our front window, but the drive was prescribed!
Hahaahaah something I would do…who cares hey:)
Those are excellent shots. The cemetery adds that extra ‘special’ touch. I can’t choose one to guess. They each have their own unique appeal.
Thanks! Hubby was focused on the windmills, I was looking to capture how it all felt and looked.
21:34:03 is my favorite. I hope NatGeo will like it 🙂
Which one is that?
Oh yeah! I forgot how limited the iPad was! I’m teasing you 🙂
It’s the one with the tree in the middle, that most others liked too. (When I hover my mouse over hit, the tooltip shows the filename, which is obviously date+time.)
Mouse? What is this rodent you speak of? Hehehe.
Epic come back 🙂
And yes, that’s the one I picked for NG. Theirs isn’t edited like this one is – there is a damn aerial mast at the top of the mountain that I took out of this version. It annoyed me.
Good job, I couldn’t guess 🙂
There’s something slightly disturbing about the image of you guys roaming around a foggy cemetery in your PJs taking pictures!
It was probably even weirder – we never went in the gates, just lurked out front!
Super evocative photographs. How often do you think, ah, must go out and capture that and not do it? Congrats to you.
I’m lucky to have a man who likes this stuff even more than I do – I’d probably have taken a few pics out the windows and gone back to the telly 🙂
I like the one with the tree as the focal point
Seems to be the favourite! Yes, that’s the one I sent to NG.
Are those windmills as such or wind power stations?
Whoops, never thought of that. Wind-farming windmills! Not that we see any benefit of the power from them.