tagged: adventures

how she’s grown – school starts in a month

diary | 09 aug 2018 | tagged: adventures

how she’s grown – no longer a baby

diary | 09 aug 2018 | tagged: adventures

childhood memories can wither when exposed to adult realities, but sometimes you have to roll the dice. from family-when-a-kid to family-as-a-parent, aberporth is a gift to pass on. and, truly, one of the most idyllic days was had.

diary | 08 aug 2018 | tagged: adventures

300km around london… why not, eh.

diary | 12 may 2018 | tagged: adventures | downloads: Full-Route-01.jpg

i’ve always liked looking out of the windows of trains as the landscape scrolls past sideways. no different in a mini-bus, but now there’s a video camera in all of our pockets, with the perfect form factor to simply press flat against the window and capture that sideways scrolling effect.

i’ve got hours of such footage from india, but the one day trip of iceland was more manageable, and so there’s actually an edit. here’s the trip, in less than two minutes.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

lava cave, clearly showing signs of recent caving-in. with so much surrounding tectonic activity, we don’t go so far in.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

it was a day of rainbows; late summer sun punctured by the spray of waterfalls or the heavens simply opening up.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

i had this dream of mountain biking in iceland. i thought what better way to use the one day i had than that; a real engagement with the landscape. but iceland is not cheap, and the options i found were prohibitively expensive.

but, there is one tour operator that has some biking as part of a ‘best you can do in a day from reykjavík’ tour. there’s a dc-3 abandoned on one of the black sand beaches, a good kilometre walk from the road. tröllaferðir decided this would be more fun using fat bikes (and, no doubt, quicker on a jam-packed day). so much fun. the attraction of the dc-3 quickly paled in comparison in roaming the undulating landscape alone. totally made the day for me.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

have you ever wondered what a flash flood on a glacier would be like? neither had i. the guide decides it’s time to get the hell off; water should be sluicing down the sink holes, not spurting up and out.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

…uh oh, here comes the rain.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

find where a glacier comes sliding and scraping out of the mountains down the coastal plain, put on crampons, grab an ice-pick and hike. pretty grand, and as a lover of black and white the ashen detailing made it all the better.

but oh-look! while the valley outlet is still in sunshine, the glacier isn’t any more…

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

i waded barefoot into the river to get a straight-on shot of the waterfall, partly for the derring-do and partly to get all the other the tourists out of shot. but overall i like this first shot best, popped off just walking from the car park: you get a sense of scale from the band of people in their brightly coloured jackets.

diary | 05 sep 2017 | tagged: adventures · iceland

punchline: we overtook someone riding a fancy road bike on the way up the escarpment to here

diary | 31 jul 2016 | tagged: adventures

frank lloyd wright’s falling water was the countryside retreat of a pittsburgh industrial mangate. no way i’m not going to hire a car and go see. it looks like all the photos you’ve ever seen; the way the sound and airflow changes as rooms turn into balconies is a revelation.

diary | 14 jul 2015 | tagged: adventures

hotel room view for the d-fuse show install. welcome to pittsburgh, quite the view.

diary | 07 jul 2015 | tagged: dfuse · tekton · adventures

alghero-bosa, mostly watching clouds

diary | 07 apr 2015 | tagged: adventures

the six bells, twenty years later.

diary | 03 mar 2015 | tagged: adventures

out with friends old and new to see a multimedia extravaganza, featuring friends old and new. vj scene from years ago, phd, glastonbury crews… pictured is the talented dave, now happily written up.

diary | 18 nov 2014 | tagged: adventures

too many wonderful driving moments and panoramic sweeps to mention, let alone try and convey. but, perhaps, this starts to conjure the epic.

diary | 30 aug 2014 | tagged: adventures · cairngorms

and when you’re not staying in a castle, things can be just as picture perfect.

diary | 29 aug 2014 | tagged: adventures · cairngorms