Ben's Board

2018-05-31T11:34:00.000-07:00

Came on this old print of Christ Church Shortly after it was built. Notice that next door down the hill was not built then.
Was it taken by the photographer that lived across the road I wonder?

2018-05-31T11:18:00.000-07:00

2018-03-23T12:17:00.000-07:00

Put a photo I took of Pete Cornish on the two photo sites. It was well received by a lot of folk that knew him

2018-02-22T08:18:00.002-08:00

Put a big pic of my friendly crow on the comp, with the following, it will be interesting to see what happens.

I have put a big picture of a crow on my computer as a background.
Why you might ask. Well until I has a stroke we had become quite frenziedly and it would come down vary close to my door to feed as I sat with the door open.
Just about 6 feet away from where I sat.
Now you can hardly speak about a wild bird as a friend, but we have an acquaintance between the two of us.
When I was allowed back home it took a little while but once more it accepts me as a fixture and I have passed within 10 or 12 feet of it when trundling along in my invalid electric chair.
I think it has become used to seeing me and realises I mean it no harm.
In acknowledgement I found one of the pictures of it taken before my stroke in '66 and I am using it as a background on my computer.
If anyone wants to copy it and do the same thing they are welcome to use it.

2018-02-22T07:37:00.001-08:00

Put a puzzler on the picture websites

Looking through my infra-red pics on Morguefile and found these two shots.
One has has been down loaded 28 times and the other 56 times.
Which do you prefer?
Both shots are from the same original picture so the only difference is the colour.
It will be interesting to see if the results are the same on both sites.

2018-02-22T06:45:00.000-08:00

The old railway bridge near Kenn.
Still standing because it carries the road to the Lower Stroud Road and to the small holdings and to Kingston Seymoor.
This picture was taken with my converted camera that will take only infra-red monochrome pictures.
After having fought a series of battles taking infra-red shots using a filter on the front of the camera which meant taking 3 different exposures to hopefully get one that would come out OK, I gave up and had my Sony 350 converted to take only Infra-red shots.
Now it’s easy – One snap and the picture is there.
All I need to do, is to change it to grey tones instead of red.

2018-02-13T21:21:00.000-08:00

Tried a little stir this morning.

Pictures can be found almost any place if we keep our eyes open.

After all what can be more mundane than an electric light post let alone a row of them.

But these caught my eye – balance by the bushes on the distant right and going to ?.

The mist cut superfluous detail and isolated them perfectly.

Snap and there was another picture caught.

Forget the seafront – one picture of a wave is almost like another one.

Just carry a camera and most important - - look around for your for picturs.

2018-02-13T08:21:00.000-08:00

How about a nice shot in Infra-red of the river in Stroud Roas?
Something more to look at than another one of the Bristol Chanel?
It's so simple to take Infra-red shots if you use a filter.
As far as I was concerned I went the whole hog and had my 350 camera converted to take only infrared shots..
I would sooner do that then accept the lousy price camera shops offer if you go to buy a new camera and want to trade in to cut the price down a bit.
"Unfortunately that model has slumped in price" is the tale - - -
So you accept it and later see your ex-camera on sale for 3 or 4 times what you accepted.
No thanks I will find other uses for my spares.

2018-02-12T23:03:00.002-08:00

Yes…. Or…. N0

It’s quite simple really. Should a picture be sharp all over or not.

I had been taking pics on Walton Moor and wished to emphasise a gate and hedge in one of the thots,

I selected a fairly large aperture to allow a quick fall of of the focus.

I was rather pleased with the result and pasted it onto my free picture websie on Morguefile.com

It would appear that others approved my treatment as almost 400 downloads and over 30 approval messages are now attached to it.

I was rather surprised when I put it on a public website to receive a slating because it was “Not sharp all over”

The idea in the first instance had been to keep the focus “off” in the distance by making the picture un-sharp.

2017-12-24T23:33:00.000-08:00

Been having trouble when Posting on Facebook. There is a school that are using an old fashioned idea for every pic they load with the sea in it. Take the picture using a big stop-down to extend the time and there are no waves.
Bloody ridiculous idea because it aint like that in real life.
I found a shot done in the early days around 1860's and published it to show IT IS NOT NEW but an old idea used of necessity.
They seemed to think they had invented it. LOL.
They didn't seem to know that I had been published over the years so I up-loaded a few of my most used shots. Just to show them I had been using a camera before they were born. Consequence is I have been too busy to keep up with thing here. This pic is one that I used as an example. There are other places to tsake pictures than the seafront.

2017-12-09T08:01:00.002-08:00

A picture of the beach from the pier end. WAY in the distance there IS a car.
Hardy people the motorists of those days. Why some of those vehicles went so fast you wondered how they could manage to breath - - when all was said and done you cant beat a horse after all. Can you?

2017-12-07T11:09:00.000-08:00

Each year access to the rocks along the beaches has become more of problem.
However with damages awarded by the courts to soemeone who through their own stupidity has an accident damages can become horrendous.
So the council is compelled to fence off access to places that used to have seats for folk to sit in peace and quiet.
Far from the open front of Victorian times but then in those days folk seemed to use their brains and stay out of dangerous situations.

2017-12-04T08:02:00.000-08:00

Horses don't make as much noise as cars it's true; but they DO have other disadvantages unless you are a very keen gardener with a bucket and shovel.
It's easy to understand why the Local Board use to advertise road sweepings for sale isn't it.

2017-12-01T22:04:00.001-08:00

Came on some pictures I took when I was working for Baxters the butchers on Hill Road after I retired from the milk round. I stopped working when the shop closed and there was then only one independents butcher left in Clevedon.

We always took great pride in the Christmas window. The show of meat and poultry had to be seen to be appreciated. Both Pete Cornish and Marie Dollimore. who took over after he retired were very particular in making certain it was well done.

2017-11-28T06:20:00.000-08:00

Came on these Pictures of the Artillery section and the firing platform at Pill the other day while looking for the shot I took of Charlies badge.
Jane now holds the original badge. How Marianne ever had it is a real mystery. It makes me wonder how many other family treasures were given away without being offered to family.
The top picture is the Clevedon section of the company and the lower one is the place from which they fired the cannon. Not from Dial Hill as some newcomer to the town tried to tell me they did.
He was simply going on the fact that at one time Clevedon Council had put them up there at the top of the path that led down to Hill Road next to Cox's new house.
Top picture in which cousin Charlie should be soemwhere. Bottom pic is the platform that carried the guns at Pill.
Target was anchored South of Blackstone rocks on the mud,

2017-11-23T10:28:00.000-08:00

Alva Dyer butcher Old Church Road. Don't ask me where work it out for yourself. Quite easily done.

2017-11-23T10:19:00.001-08:00

Farm on Dial Hill pre 1925

2017-11-23T10:11:00.001-08:00

Making road-stone at the public quarry in Old Church Road.

2017-11-21T23:11:00.002-08:00

Lovell family stand in the doorway of the shoe shop in Old Street

probably taken around 1923 or 4.

2017-11-21T23:05:00.000-08:00

When the council workmen dug a hole across the way to the sheds we had to drive in via the river track. Note a young Perce Powell at the back of the work crew.

2017-11-21T23:04:00.000-08:00

Fletham's fish shop in Hill Road dressed for the Meat Show and waiting for the judges - when Clevedon had independent shops and not Super-dooper Market places.

2017-11-17T20:55:00.001-08:00

The school at East Clevedon, was a success from its beginning.

2017-11-16T22:02:00.001-08:00

Two early camera views one from each side of the church. Taken before the trees planted by Sir Edmond? had grown enough to make the pictures more difficult.

2017-11-16T21:55:00.002-08:00

Following remarks about the lack of available pictures of East Clevedon and Swiss Valley I have started to post those that I have.
Kicking off with three drawings.

2017-11-15T22:37:00.001-08:00

Why this had not been done years before will never be known. It added to the size of the yard and made it much easier to turn the milk floats. Also gace the fitters a bigger space to wok in on break-downs etc.
Added value to the site too. That work was what caused the end of the yard to the east to fall into the river. It also gave an extra 10 feet of yards across the width.