Red sky in the morning

 
No time to get d200, tripod out, so this was hand held on the Ixus against the window. 

The Tech Report - Power consumption and Vista's Aero interface

Great article on power consumption on new systems running Microsoft Windows Vista Aero Interface.

Bottom line - brief spike up to 15% when doing 3d task view/switcher but apart from that you get the nice 'Glass' UI features for only marginal power consumption increase.
The Tech Report - Power consumption and Vista's Aero interface

More Macro

  
Some of you may have spotted that some photos are either not showing up on blog entries, or are truncated (in small version or large version you get when you click on them) - this is not intentional but is caused by some bug between Picasa 2 "Blog This!" function being selected and pictures being uploaded to my ftp server via Blogger... :(

I've been trying to find a fix - trawling through Picasa Help Groups - but no luck - just downloaded slightly newer build of Picasa2 - but hasn't improved things.

Meanwhile the Whisky bottle looks nice.

Full Bodied Spirit

  

Daniel's Hundred's and Thousand's Trifle

 
  

What the heck is this?

 
 
Found this little guy out by the compost heap - no idea what it is. Anyone got a clue?

used my 18-200mm AFS DX VR telephoto for this (as this is what was on camera at the time) probably should have changed it for the Tamron 90mm Macro for a better shot. 

New Combined Pinnells Blog

From now on you'll be able to track all posts from Ethan's, Toby's and Bill's blog on a new combined or 'aggregator' blog called 'Pinnells' at www.pinnells.com

This is only for new posts from today - so if you want to see older pictures and posts then look at the existing blog in the normal location.