Original title: They’re after me Lucky Charms

Then I decided that was a bit flippant and doesn’t translate culturally outside of the US anyway.
Hoping to start posting properly again here. At least 2 a week. I’d forgotten I had an ‘Elsewhere‘ category so that’ll make it easier to put a few up from our lovely holiday back in the UK and Ireland.

Brunswick and Topsham are also connected by this bridge over the Androscoggin River. This is from last week when a day of showers gave way to low mist illuminated by a setting sun, one of those moments when I was glad to have my camera on me.

From Saturday’s Maine Photography Meetup in Wolf’s Neck State Park, 20 minutes south of here. Just the 5 of us, but it was a grand day for a walk. More soon I hope.

This pedestrian bridge was built in 1892 to connect the towns of Brunswick and Topsham. In 1999 a study reported it had 5-10 years of life left in it so a small fortune was raised and in 2004 it was rebuilt and now has another 50 years of dangling to look forward to. As to this photoblog ‘What’s new?’ you ask?.. Well…

Where to start?

First off, there’s a proper search page that has long been missing. Now if you need to find a picture of Atticus for your school project on Handsome Bilingual Schipperkes you won’t have to click around the ‘Nature’ tags all day to find him.

Next up, some photos don’t really benefit from this default dark background. It works for photos like this and these, but sometimes it’s nicer to see them on a white matte, as it were. Now you can click the “On White” below the photo and it will ajaxly pop up with a snowy #FFFFFF backdrop.

Thirdly, I’m an avid reader of the interwebs. I’m deskbound most days and subscribe to quite a few feeds on photography and suchlike. If I see an article I think would be of interest to a wider audience I share it on Google Reader. See the last 5 articles I handpicked over on the About page.

Lastly: Did you notice the unmissable blue button below? Click it!
(if you’re reading this as an email subscriber, you’ll need to click over to the real page to see it.)

Feedback is always welcome.

This one was on the way to the Topsham fairground where the other long exposure shot was taken. I like the light and how the stars are visible.

Matey here was following us when we went lobster fishing. The bait from the lobster pots gets chucked into the sea and is replaced with fresh herrings. The seagulls were well used to this process and having them hover close by made them prime targets for me camera.

Even the dodgy bits of Portland have their charms.

This might be one of the last pictures in the blog from Oregon… Next stop Somerset…

The title comes from a line in ‘Libre’:

And the original which I only just found:

I’m off to Seattle today. Here’s a pic from the last time I went a few months ago. Doubt it’ll be this clear today, but hope springs eternal…

Lovely word that, catkin. While doing some (brief) research on wikipedia I found out they’re called amentos in español. I was wondering whether catkin was a UK English thing or not, I’ve not heard it crop up in conversation in the States, but then again, I s’pose it wouldn’t really…

This was taken within 10 minutes of the teasels one from yesterday.

Plan A was to take a high ISO shot with a very fast shutter speed of this breaking when I chucked it at the concrete, but I decided I wasn’t well coordinated enough to pull it off. Plan B was to hold it aloft like a mighty jewel and shoot the sun’s rays glinting off its imperfections. Behold, plan B.