Uploads from VROG in Bristol, with geodata

home time

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:42 -0700

crab fishing
string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

slipway

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:44 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

crab fishing
string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

close of play

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:42 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

crab fishing
string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

hand over hand

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:28:13 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

please view large version

We stumbled across this extraordinary fishing ritual on the beach in Shaldon, South Devon this summer (2009).
At low tide a fisherman rows a boat out into the mouth of the estuary, paying out a long line of fishing net (possibly called a seine net?) in a huge arc, like an enormous circular curtain below the surface of the water.
Three fisherman then gather the ends of the net on the shore, and slowly draw the ropes in - hand over hand - one hauling each end, and the man in the middle pulling a centre rope connected to the bottom of the net.
Slowly, slowly the circle of net becomes smaller and smaller until they bring in a catch of wild salmon in the last pocket of net still in the water.

a stake

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:16:26 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

one of many
each playing a small but vital role
effective only when part of a much bigger combined effort
quietly unappreciated
but
one by one
ensuring that the whole of this extraordinary happening
stays
standing

going up

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:46:08 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

we made our own hot air balloon last weekend
out of emergency foil blankets, florists wire, sticky tape and an individual apple pie tray
fuelled by cotton wool and meths
don't try this at home

(pictures taken by the talented Nick F)

we counted them out...

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:43 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

crab fishing
string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

little nippers

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:44 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

crab fishing
string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

crab fishing

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:20:45 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

string, net, bucket, fish-head, estuary
hours of free entertainment

(no post production on this - straight out of the camera)

catch

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:28:45 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

a pink spikey thing
from a rock pool
in Yorkshire

ending

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:15:56 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

roll on gb10

°o O°o°°BU

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:57:42 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

which one will you pop?

I'm really tired, but I still don't want to go home

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:47:46 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

last day of Greenbelt 2009
happy and exhausted

(Straight out of the camera)

Greenbelt bathroom

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:47:21 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

even pleaseder

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:33 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

do younger brothers always catch bigger fish?

angling

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:34 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

if concentration could catch fish
he'd break all the records

pleased

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:34 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

got one

tench

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:33 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

an attractive but slimey fish

Exmouth marina at night

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:32:26 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

where we went on holiday
in a flat belonging to some friends
overlooking the old harbour / new marina in Exmouth

long exposure with tripod for smoother reflections

bigger version here

...and away

nobody@flickr.com (VROG in Bristol) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:36:19 -0700

VROG in Bristol posted a photo:

we made our own hot air balloon
out of emergency foil blankets, florists wire, sticky tape and an individual apple pie tray
fuelled by cotton wool and meths
don't try this at home

(pictures taken by the talented Nick F)