Night and mist part one

Some shots of night and mist... shot on the phone.

More criminal masterminds...

I watched a few more murder programs last week, honestly I'm amazed by just how dumb some people are. One killer a mechanic used a spanner to kill his victims, fine except he had all his tools along the wall with the shape drawn around them to see what went where and what was missing. After the murders he threw the spanner away. Police turned up to interview his as he'd had a row with the victims shortly before the murder and noticed the gap in his tool line up. Knowing the victims had spanner shaped dents in their heads gave police the thought he just might be the suspect.... No need to call in Sherlock Holmes or Poirot here then. Another criminal mastermind buried the victim under his own house under the crawlspace. All fine and dandy if he'd bothered to actually bury the body properly but he left the feet sticking up (no honestly he really did shoes and all) then sold the house.... Dohhh! New owners move in look under the floor and find... yes you guessed it a pair of feet sticking up. The police arrive and fairly quickly realise if the new owners didn't do it then it must be the old owner. So a word of warning if your going to murder someone and you have an IQ in single figures and need help tying your own shoes.... don't, your bound to get caught, probably becuse your a moron and you'll leave your wallet there or something. I actually heard of a bloke who left his dog at a burglary, police put a lead on it and it took them home to the burglar who had forgotten where he left it.

Paranormal caught on camera....

Paranormal caught on camera... ghosts, cryptids, aliens, ufo, bigfoot etc etc all caught on camera. Amazing... or at least it would be if any of the clips (borrowed from youtube?) were real. It's actually very funny to watch just how bad some of the fake videos are. We're not even talking Chinese 50p CGI, that's like star wars compared to some of this stuff. The only paranormal thing going on here is what was going through the producers mind when he/she watched the videos and believed them... Frankly he/she either knows most are fake and put's them up to get viewers (my guess) or he/she has the IQ of an egg shell.

Sunsets

A few from last night

Evening light

A few evening shots... tomorrow sunsets...

Oil painting style flowers

Yes I'm back to flowers, been a bit of a killer week so haven't been out shooting yet, also have doctors and hospital visits until sundan. So it is what it is.

Criminal mastermind!

I watched a documentary today about a murder, the killer dumped the victims body in a suitcase in the river... The mastermaind did however leave his family name and address tag on the suitcase.... Doh! You couldn't make it up could you.

What a week!

Well it's been a hell of a week. My cars having electrial issues yet again. I've bought fridges, washing machines and a new dash camera to replace items that have died... well the fridge was fine but thats a very long story and involved throwing out a prefectly good working fridge freezer... but hey ho! I've had little sleep, I've had the police around and been over casualty (my street looked like a scene from CSI Miami when I came home one night, another long story). I've been in the bloody shops more than the manager despite trying to only go shopping once a week to minimise risk to my aging body.... (I've got the body of a greek god! it was in that topsoil I bought from Fred West.... too soon? Oh well) Lastly bloody blooger has altered the format so theres no spacing, thats why theres no paragraphs anymore! Lets hope next week gets back to what passes for normal... that said I suspect I'll be buying a cooker, another washing machine and God knows what else. I dont thnk I've seen the last of the drama yet.... wonder if they managed to get my bath mat out of the old washing machine?

The day just keeps on giving!!!

Great went out shopping after bugger all sleep got home to find my washing still swimming in the machine. So eventually I drained the water out and got the door open and it's kippered. So roll on two hours and I got a new one installed. Job done!

Oh joy!

Oh joy! sitting outside casualty in the cold for three hours... Still it could have been worse, I could have been the one injured.

Stressfull week

I haven't had an easy week. Bit of a family drama and a lot of running about trying to sort stuff out so haven't been shooting and probably wont till next week. Hopefully things will calm down by then. I've bought a new watch... didn't have much choice as the other one was stuck an hour out and it was driving me loopy! I pushed the boat out and spent more than I've ever spent on a watch... a whopping £22 bloody hell.. I'll be buying tyres with tread next...

Sort of cartoon style?

A few played with shots....

Classic tv series that were bigger than they really were.

Some classic tv series ended up bigger and better remembered than they actually were. Take the classic Fwalty Towers.. everybody of a certain age remembers the series and everybody has a favorite quote or episode (mine is the kipper and the corpse) However the series ran to just 12 episodes. Other series like the Sweeny and Professionals are both well remembered and frequently shown on tv, again both of these had a little over 50 episodes each. Incidently if you watch the Sweeny watch how little night shooting takes place, it was due to costs. The professionals on the other had had car trouble, starting the BL cars they quickly switched to Fords are reliability issues with BL (well known to any BL owner) plus the stunt driving caused a few headaches with damaged vehicles.

Some pics for today

Took these a while back and missed posting them I think.

TV programs are driving me insane!

Yes TV programs are driving me to the point of murder! Why cant tv companies make a program that doesn't repeat the last part of the program every time theres an advert break? If the bloody viewers can't remember what happened 4 minutes ago what make you think they'll remember it this time, my God who is the program aimed at? Alzheimers sufferers? retrograde amnesia patients? of the mayfly tv association? Seriously how fucking dumb do people need to be to forget what happened before the bloody adverts? I just watched a program and they repeated the story 5 fucking times (after each ad break) I gave up in the end, I was never going to find out what happened in the end. People are dying of old age before the program gets to the point. Boring and slow dont come close. And another thing. When your making a program about a murder follow the bloody murder story! I dont want the towns history, or the victims school grades and a list of their jobs since college... it's got fuck all to do with the murder. I want to know who died, how they died and who did it!. Not what famous people went to their school, and what coffee they drink.. Think about it, the court didn't hear this crap for a reason... IT'S NOT THE MURDER! Lastly ghost hunting programs (I've mentioned these before)Calling a place the haunted house of horror and filming a dopy fat bloke in the dark is hardly gripping tv. Not helped by the moron fronting the program saying things like did you hear a faint voice.... NO I bloody didn't! and with a tv crew and hangers on even if I did hear a voice it's probably one of them. Why are you filming in the pitch dark? Don't ghost like the light... Funny then how most sightings are in the fucking daytime.

Two night shots and a question?

Heres two night shots and the question. Why do camera makers make a camera with three long exposure modes, night mode with flash high iso, night mode long exposure tripod no flash and fireworks... long exposure no flash, yet have flash enabled by default on all three? Whats the point of long exposure tripod no flash if the bloody flash still fires? Twats! theres two ways of disabling it (well three if you count a hammer) you can turn off the flash in the menu and that works until the battery goes flat and it resets defaults.. or you can duct tape over the flash... guess which option I took....

A few pics for today

Heres todays offering.

Tremors 7 Shrieker island Review

"When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers. " IMDb This is a hard review for me to write as a fan of the Tremors franchise. The basic plot is super modified graboids are put on an island for rich hunters... Think Jurassic park with hunting and your close. Of course this goes wrong very quickly when a graboid spawns shriekers (sort of vicious chickens who hunt using infra red.. and make their victims infra dead! Enter Burt Gummer played by Michael Gross (who has appeared in all 7 movies and the TV series) who is living in isolation on a desert island, he's called out to sort out the mess. So where does it all go wrong... Well the script is weak and seems to have been written with Burt and his son in the lead rolls, for reasons unknown Travis (Burts son in the previous movie actor Jamie Kennedy) doesn't appear and a sort of son like character is created in Jimmy (Jon Hedder) Added factors are sterotyped villians so over the top it was silly, awful acting with the exception of Gross, Terrible special effects... not even as good as the original Tremors movie made in 1990. Low budget was the final straw, it looks and feels cheap and is a poor last stand for the film. Gross say he might come back from an Tremors eight if it's made (which seems unlikely from what we see on screen and the reviews). Frankly the Franchise need a large budget big studio version perhaps going back to it's roots. Waynes rating 5/10 not terrible and worth a watch if your a fan, but dont get your hopes up, even Burt gives it the finget at the end

All the fun of the fair... (sarcasm)

We went to the fair yesterday to get some shots... it was closed like the rest of the UK... anybody remember when we had an economy?