Home
About
Photos
Equipment
Submit
Contact
RSS for Zamyatin photoblog
Search


Pictures by Camera
QTEK 9100
Sony Ericsson K700i
Minolta X500
Rollei 35b
Nisis DV5
Nikon F3 T
Pentax Optio 50
TYTN II
Lomo Fisheye
JVC Everio GZ-MS100
HTC Touch Pro 2
FujiFilm FinePix 1600
Nikon D5000
Orange San Francisco
Samsung Galaxy S
Canon PowerShot SX230 HS
Nexus 4
Nikon D5300


Pool's Pictures

Pool at the Top
Pool at the Top (Nikon D5300)

After a bit of driving to decide what to do we decided to go to Chatsworth and walk around in the rain. Well I say rain, but it wasn't hard enough to be called rain, but it was enough to be really rubbish to take pictures in and cause a mist everywhere which diffused the light and causing the landscape to look a little flat and wet everything making things a little slippy. However there were some really pretty impressive things that I have never seen at Chatsworth which my wife and I agreed would probably look look a whole lot better in the summer despite the fact they looked pretty good today. The problem is that whilst the eye sees one thing, the camera sees another, and a bright sky causes problems if the light is diffused.

Anyway enough about photography, this is picture of a pool at the top of the a waterfall in Chatsworth, if you follow the pool at the left, in the distance you can see a small canal in the distance which is where this flows and then drops off a 30-40ft fall. Like I Say, more for summer days.

0 comments have been left20:54 2 Jan 2016Tags: pool mist chatsworth waterfall
Make a Comment

What Sort of People Are They
What Sort of People Are They (Nexus 4)

I must admit, I may have decided to stay at home this weekend if I had known what was on the cards, but my crystal ball was broken so I blindly booked a hotel only to get charged twice for it and to find that the people I booked it with were more interested in taking the money for the room they forgot to do... well... much else other than that. At least we were expected, well two of us were and that's about all they could be bothered doing. I can understand it's very difficult when you're dealing in over-priced hotel rooms, you don't want to guarantee anything for someone who has decided to pay a premium for it. Perhaps I should have just stuck to the ultra reliable cheap as chips Premier Travel Lodge Inn. You at least know what you're going to get and that they are going to take your money just the once.

In the interests of trying to keep everyone happy I made sure that the hotel had a pool so your cheap as chips variety was out for that specific reason. This was so that my not so little little one could have a paddle each morning before being bored by the constant stream of sights to see. So off we went to the pool only to be greeted by this sign. All pretty standard apart from item 3. That definitely caused me to double take. In fact I can't imagine why would would have to put that so high up the pecking order of things not to do if you have to have it in the list at all. What sort of people use this pool that need to be told that? Do they also need to be shown the designated pooing place too? It did make me wonder whether the pool was now a safe place to enter what with the problems with rules in general. After all if there's a rule for it then there will surely be a percentage of people breaking it despite a sign telling them that perhaps the toilet is the best place.

0 comments have been left17:59 22 Apr 2013Tags: sign pool toilet
Make a Comment

Communal Changing
Communal Changing (Pentax Optio 50)

Now perhaps I have this all wrong and you can laugh in my face for misreading this, but I suspect I have it all right and the person who wrote this sign got it wrong in at least one way, and that isn't for the fact that the bottom half of the sign has been tacked on as an after thought, or perhaps some computer training is required here, simple stuff like changing the font size so that the whole thing fits.

My main problem with this sign is that “cubicles need to be used by other customers at all time”... all times? 100% of it? Even when I'm using it? I mean I know it's communal changing and when I was a lad changing rooms for the pool didn't have cubicles but from a practical point of view the cubicle at best merely fitted my Daughter and I. I'm not sure there was much room for other customers.

0 comments have been left13:16 14 Feb 2009Tags: sign cubicle pool
Make a Comment

I am a Free Man
I am a Free Man (Minolta X500)

Another view of the pool at Portmeirion. A place to go, wquite wierd in some ways, but very pretty.

0 comments have been left17:38 8 Jan 2006Tags: portmeirion pool
Make a Comment

I am not a Number
I am not a Number (Minolta X500)

This is a picture of the main bit or Portmeirion all the houses look down onto this. I'm pretty sure it used to be paved around the pool, though after reading bit about the place it apparently took 70 years to build (the whole place not the pool), and the pool used to be tennis court. I like the pool better.

0 comments have been left17:37 8 Jan 2006Tags: portmeirion pool
Make a Comment

Frog
Frog (Sony Ericsson K700i)

It's been a good day for bad pictures. This was far too close to get it in focus. I did take a few others with Zoom by reducing the resolution, but they were so small that they’re not worth the bandwidth.

0 comments have been left19:49 31 Jul 2005Tags: frog pool
Make a Comment

Local Directory for Manchester, Lancashire
Submit my blog Personal-Journals
Nice People
The Obscurer
Fantastic Photos