Fishing

A nice linear mirror Carp, caught from a local day ticket water. A definate double but I forgot the scales! I was using 6lb monofilament with a sliding quarter ounce leger, a size 16 barbless hook and two red maggots.

A nice local Pike, taken on legered sprat during winter. This was five days before Christmas at a local river and was the biggest taken in a short five hour session. Again approaching a double in weight.

Believe me! They do get smaller than this.

A wild or common Carp. Taken from another local day ticket water using "The Method". Not huge but wild or common Carp are not as common as their name implies.

Weather

This glorious photo was taken less than 400 yrds from my back yard using an ancient Zenith Photo-Sniper outfit. See coolstuff. This was bought for £40 from a second hand shop. No filters were used. Most of the festival photo`s in coolstuff were taken using this outfit.

Same tree, same angle, same camera. These shots were taken six months apart. I have lived here for over thirty years but the way the landscape changes with the seasons is amazing.

The end of a day long thunder storm. This photo combines a lot I love about Nature. The unpredictability, the ferocity and the beauty. Taken looking South from my back yard.

Astronomy

This is a picture of the spiral galaxy Messier 83. Taken by David Malin. Astronomy is the most weather dependant of hobbies. Remember the 1999 total solar eclipse? I rode down to Bodmin moor to watch it and it rained! Light pollution dosn`t help either! Clear skies.

Most of my interests are effected by the weather to a certain extent. I curse the rain when I`m 20 miles from home riding in the teeth of a storm. But when the fish are reluctant to bite a sudden shower can create activity. These are just some of my interests I felt it would be worth including on my website. Others..... many, varied and some possibly illegal.

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II thought this was going to be my first funnel cloud! Taken from my back garden on 05/08/03 at 20.20 BST. It was a nice lowering but never touched down.

Another impressive lowering taken during a short storm chase in Northants on 27/08/04. This,as far as I could see, failed to touch down however the view of the base was blocked by the trees so I might have missed it.