New camera equipment

Today I received my new bit of camera equipment, a mini tripod.

It's the Joby GripTight GorillaPod Stand. You can use it for both small smartphones and compact cameras.

Will be trying it out in due course to see what photos I can take. You can wrap it round slim branches and the like.

I've been busy adding photos to my Instagram gallery, now over 80 photos and a couple of short video clips.

http://instagram.com/beakyjim

YouTube Channel turns Three

It's been 3 years since I started posting my videos of my travels on YouTube.

With time I've added more videos and now there well over 100.

So views to date is has passed 36,000.

My Top Ten are below:

I'll be adding more videos of my travels and Lego builds.

Let's get to 50,000 views and see if there will be a different video taking top spot.

Instagram profile

Finished choosing my photos for my Instagram profile.

Chosen 50 photos so far and will be adding more in the future.

If you use Instagram please feel free to like any photos!

http://instagram.com/beakyjim

Instagram

Finally got around to using Instagram.

Have added photos from my travels and walks, you can find me under "beakyjim"

clouds from the Cloud

Had a jog then walk the rest of way up Bosley Cloud earlier. Took 48 minutes today with jogging the first 2km.

Start a new Strava challenge in just over a week so aim to reduce the time it takes it reach the top.

Got the timing right, as now I as I type it is raining!!

London Eye and river boat at sunset

London: autumn day

London: fade to grey

London Revisited

It's been 3 years since I last visited London on my travels down to Brighton to visit my niece.

So I thought it was time for another visit as the London skyline has changed a bit since.

 I wanted to check out the Shard and see if I could capture the London Eye at night.

 A very early start I arrived at Euston station before 9am. Got the Tube and found out at Green Park I couldn't use the Jubilee Line so decided to walk down to the Thames to get my first photos of the London Eye. Went past Buckingham Palace and through St James Park, plenty of ducks and even caught a photo of a heron before it flew off.

Once at the Thames followed it along to Tower Bridge before I got the Docklands Light Railway out to Greenwich. Bit of lunch bought and climbed up the hill in Greenwich Park to the Observatory for great views of the London skyline.

On the way back to the centre I got off at Canary Wharf for a quick look round before going back to the South Bank. I visited the Tate Museum before stopping to see the various street performers.

Quickly took in Piccadilly Circus before walking down to Trafalgar Square then back to the Thames for sunset (or lack of due to cloud!).

Tripod set up and managed to get different photos of the London Eye as the light dimmed. Managed to get enough shots and it was time to make my way back via the Tube to Euston for journey home!

Below panoramic photo taken on the Thames:

Will do 2 separate posts of videos of the photos of the day.

London: fade to grey
London: autumn day

Wales Coast Path - Pentraeth to Moelfre photos

Had problems inserting video into previous post so added YouTube video separately.

Wales Coast Path - Pentraeth to Moelfre

On Thursday I continued my walk along the Wales Coast Path, the section I covered was Pentraeth round to Moelfre.

Weather forecast had been a Yellow weather warning from the Met Office so wasn't looking forward to the heavy rain!

I had a friend for company and we were very competitive! in getting the best photos.

Panoramic photos of the day:

Other photos taken on the day can be found on my YouTube Channel, 'neilrbee' or click on the link below to see the video.

http://youtu.be/9lklyjGqSnc


We avoided the heavy rain until we were waiting for the bus back to Pentraeth.

Added 6 more miles to my total.