Looking like something captured by an endoscope, it’s actually just half a lemon (with a bit of processing in Paint Shop Pro).

It’s amazing how many more stars the camera picks up then the human eye. Here’s a shot straight from camera, which is more or less how it looked to the eye.

Here’s the same shot (cropped a little) processed to bring out the fainter stars. Of course it helps if you’re in an area with low light pollution from street lights etc. I took this in Snowdonia.

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Detail from wall decoration

Looking vertically from the bottom of a wall alcove

Steps

Decoration on gate

Detail from gate

Added some shots taken in Snowdonia to my main gallery here.

Thought provoking and sometimes disturbing, photojournalist images from Reuters here.

Some shots of the cathedral and nearby University of Surrey.

Looking like a sort of amphitheatre enclosed by a wall, this is a view looking vertically up the side of the cathedral from within an arched recess.

Sculpture (University of Surrey).

Stained glass reflection on wall
(colours enhanced).

Security Camera (University of Surrey).

Alan Turing (University of Surrey).

“Seven joined in one”, motto of the Household Division
(referring to the seven regiments).

Dalek?

Playing around in Paint Shop Pro I added a bit of drama to these shots of an electricity sub-station.

Amazingly clear and sharp photos provided courtesy of NASA – click the image below to go to the gallery.

Note: NASA images are not generally copyrighted and may be used freely on the Internet. More details here.

This has to be the most affectionate cat I’ve met. A regular visitor to the golf driving range, it goes from one mat to the next, rolling on its back waiting for a tummy rub. It makes it rather tricky to hit the golf balls without whacking the cat! Having my pocket camera with me, I resigned to just photographing it for a while. The shots were pretty mediocre so I played around with them in Paint Shop Pro. All except the first one are clickable.