It’s been a while since I posted – it’s been a while since I’ve really been out with the camera. The recent snowfall in London gave me a good excuse today, so here’s my favourite from those I took today.

I’ve taken plenty of snowy shots before, so took this little blue man with me to have some fun. He ended up doing all sorts of silly things, but making a snow angel was the best.

Enjoy – and merry Christmas to you all.

I figured this one needed a post of its own, since it’s such a great sequence of photos.

My housemate Jem (who is also in the band Portland Rise) decided he’d try bicycle-kicking a snowball. Needless to say some of his other attempts were not so successful – check out this one of him on his bum, for instance.

Ideally I would have straightened these all out, made sure the crop and exposure was identical and then thrown them together, but I was tired last night and have lots to do today, so I’m afraid you’ll have to make do! Needless to say, I could if I wanted…

Looks like yesterday was it on the snow front – no fresh snow overnight and quite bright sunlight today leading to a lot of melting, which is a shame. It was fun while it lasted.

(This is one of the little side projects I mentioned in the panorama post, if you’re wondering. First time I’ve thrown a sequence like this together – will give it another go when I can to get the horizons matching up.)

It doesn’t happen very often, and certainly not this heavily. It’s still snowing as I type this, and the snow we disturbed earlier (most of it) has been replaced. There’s a good couple of inches on the ground.

It looked for a long time like it wouldn’t settle, but it soon started building up and we decided to venture out. At first we were timid (I certainly was about taking the camera out), but eventually we descended into snowball fights – unfortunately undocumented, as I quite wisely moved the camera back inside.

We fought one another, locking one housemate out the front while gathering snow from out back to throw at him from the windows. Then, a house a few doors down decided to come out – and we had a bit of a neighbourhood snowfight.

Update: It’s now Monday morning and there has been yet more snow. A good 3 inches. And there’s more filtering slowly down. You can’t see at all where we were messing about last night, the buses are all cancelled and even with the heating on the house is freezing. Have added two new pics, including one I quite like of icicles hanging from a lampost. Hope you enjoy them as much as I have been enjoying the snow! Read the rest of this entry »