Facebook, mud and catkins....

So far so interesting. There is a huge amount of things to start to learn about facebook and I am just talking the first few steps. It is quite intriguing though. I have spent the morning working out how to link things to my account. The afternoon was for play - wellies mud and catkins..

One of the main things I have been working on is linking my web presence and finding ways of supporting each in the most efficient way. This is where Posterous comes in. Initially I used this service as an easy way to post blog updates from my iPhone. It worked really well - you write a quick email and post it to Posterous and bang the content flows to wherever. It was also posted to my Posterous blog site which, if I am honest, I never looked at as I was using Blogger.com. However, with the arrival of facebook I am now not so dismissive, indeed there may come a time when I stop working on blogger and just use support Posterous. This, though, is unlikely as blogger.com is part of Google and you would hope that this would give the service an edge when searches are made on Google. The second reason why this might not happen is that Posterous is so easy to use that I don't have to do anything and both blogs are updated.

Having spent the morning starting to understand facebook this afternoon I felt like doing something more creative. On came the wellies and I was out splatting through the mud in my local park. What is it with me and mud? Well there was a serious reason for this. I wanted to capture some catkin photographs and now is the right time to do that. Sure enough there was a great show of catkins and I will enjoy working through the images over the next day or so. Now do I publish them to flickr or facebook? Decisions Decisions.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Snowdrops...

Well I have survived my encounter with Somme style mud. Actually this is a bit silly, well all right very silly but it was very muddy. It is half term at the moment so the woods at Dimminsdale were alive with parents and grand parents taking their respective off spring to see the snowdrops. The problem was that no one had told the snowdrops - so they continued to sit their without opening their flower heads. It snowed last night so this should have added to the romantic nature but instead it just added to the gloop.

There were quite a few photographers there trying to capture that illusive shot but I seemed to be the only one who was willing to get down and dirty with the pesky flowers - I suspect that this said more about me than the other photographers. I had planned ahead so had old waterproof trousers and jacket on. I also used an old show curtain to tray and reduce the mess - this worked really well considering but I still ended up getting very muddy.

A new problem from the last time I tried to capture the flowers arose this time. People insisted on crouching down near the flowers, I was lying down in the well worn footpath, this meant that many of the snowdrops were trampled under foot. It would be wrong to suggest that many flowers were destroyed as a result of this but people should be careful where they stand or squat.

It too early to say whether the morning was a success - but the early indications are that it went better than expected - lets hope this is borne out by the final photographs.

Mud mud glorious mud...

I am covered in gloopy mud - deep joy! Im after snowdrops again, this time against a covering of snow. Problem is the snowdrops still havn't come out and the snow is turning into slush and, well, mud. Oh the joys of photography.

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