Saturday 31 July 2010

31 July 2010

Day 212:
Rammstein headlined Saturday night on the Apollo stage at Sonisphere. It was hands down the best SHOW I have ever seen performed at a concert before. GO AND SEE THEM IF YOU SHOULD EVER HAVE THE CHANCE!!! It doesn't matter if you like their music (industrial metal/rock) or not...

Friday 30 July 2010

30 July 2010

Day 211:
Karma to Burn playing the Jagermeister stage at Sonisphere (at Knebworth). What a GREAT band!!!

Tuesday 27 July 2010

27 July 2010

Day 208:
On my way home from Chris and Toni's wedding reception, the full moon was high in the sky over Mt Batten/Cattedown/Plymouth Sound. Such a beautiful evening, until the fog rolled in...

Monday 26 July 2010

26 July 2010

Day 207:
Chris and Toni Pike at their wedding reception at the Royal Corinthian Plymouth Yacht Club. Chris was the 1st person I ever talked to (via email) from Plymouth that helped me with information prior to my moving to the UK.

Wednesday 21 July 2010

18 July 2010

Day 199:
The Damerals live at The Nowhere Inn. They have to be the loudest band I have seen in a long, long time playing f*cking great garage rock 'n' roll!

Tuesday 13 July 2010

13 July 2010

Day 194:
Valentina's 31st birthday (technically the day before) and one of Balbina's wonderful cakes!

Monday 12 July 2010

12 July 2010

Day 193:
B-bar Thai noodles for lunch on the Mayflower Steps (yes, the ones the pilgrims departed from) in the Barbican while Sarah was visiting Plymouth.

Saturday 10 July 2010

10 July 2010

Day 191:
Although technically taken the day before, I had to get a photo in here from the night out at The Nowhere Inn from when Sarah was over visiting from Calgary.

Friday 9 July 2010

9 July 2010

Day 190:
Anna's 40th Birthday drinks in the James Street Vaults (JSV).

Wednesday 7 July 2010

7 July 2010

Day 188:
WOWOWOW... I WON THE SOUTH DEVON AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION!!!!  I found out the night before at the opening of the photo exhibition in Kingsbridge. This is the winning photo and I simply could not have done it without all of your support and voting! For my prize I get to go in a hot air balloon ride over the SW... I am sooo looking forward to getting up in the air!!

Maybe this is a good omen for my photography as this was taken on the 1st day that I took my new DSLR out on a walk....

Tuesday 6 July 2010

6 July 2010

Day 187:
The evening that I returned to the UK from Croatia. This was on my drive back from Kingsbridge and collecting my prize for winning the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty photography competition. With landscape like this, it's easy to take a good picture!

Monday 5 July 2010

5 July 2010

Day 186:
On Day 4 of Vida and I's Croatian road trip, we found ourselves in Plitvice Lakes National Park in central Croatia. This place is filled with thousands of waterfalls, all formed and reformed by the special interaction between the flora and travertine that are found in this region. It's a place that I want to visit in every season as the landscape/scenery changes dramatically depending on the time of year.

Sunday 4 July 2010

4 July 2010

Day 185:
On Day 3 of Vida and I's Croatian road trip, we found ourselves on a different boat than what we had booked on to to sail to Kornati National Park, a series of islands along the southern end of the North Dalmation Coast. Being with the horrid people and their terrible children made for a rather unpleasant experience and our least favourite out of all 4 days, but it still was beautiful. What you want to explore this national park is a small sailboat or the like to take you whichever way the wind is blowing while relaxing under the wonderfully warm Croatian sun...

This photo was taken from the top of the island we stopped at for a swim with islands as far as the eye can see! This island has the ONLY sandy beach in the entire national park. This meant that it gets very, very busy with lots of tourists. If you swim out far enough you can get away from most before getting to all of the anchored boats. The water was divine though...

Saturday 3 July 2010

3 July 2010

Day 184:
Day 2 of my Croatian road trip with Vida. This was in Paklenica National Park, heading back to the car. What an amazing place!

Friday 2 July 2010

Thursday 1 July 2010

1 July 2010

Day 182:

Veli Lošinj at sunset on the island of Lošinj and the last night of the ISCB course.