Bad taste bears

Key chains

Just another oddity that I found on sale in South Shields Market.

Not a lot to add to that, bad taste, don’t be found fumbling about for your keys!

Camera details: Pentax K100D, 50mm lens, 1/60 second, f6.7, iso 200

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Jungle King

Leo in supine state

Statue of lion outside of South Shields Museum, Ocean Road.

I need to appeal to local readers to help me out with the history of this piece, he has stood guard outside the Museum for many years yet I know nothing of his history. Where was he before someone decided to rest him here?

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 28mm lens, 1/60 second, f5.6, iso 200

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Walkies!

Great North Dog Walk

It’s difficult to believe but behind this crowd of people and pooches at the start line on The Leas, South Shields there are another 12,000 odd lined up behind! We broke the record again on Sunday, 12,339 dogs representing 162 breeds took part in the 3.5 mile walk along the cliff tops.

The tape was cut to start the walk by South Tyneside’s Deputy Mayor and Mayoress Cllr. John and Mrs. Anglin.

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 450mm lens, 125 second, f13, iso 200

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Great North Dog

101 Dalmatians

Well there weren’t actually 101 dalmatians there, but there was this fellow and one or two others, well over 10,000 others to be precise.

I’m talking about the Butcher’s Great North Dog Walk, the world record setting event which takes place in South Shields every year. Yesterday thousands of dogs and their owners took part in the worlds largest (confirmed by the Guinness book of records) dog walk to raise thousands of pounds for local charities. It has featured in the Guinness Book of Records twelve times for it’s size and the amount of participating breeds, last year 10,272 dogs were entered from 154 breeds. Last year the young chap above attempted to set a world record time for a “doggy mile”, that is why he is a Great North Dog.

As for the picture I used Photoshop’s extract filter to lift him from the background of this image, and then I created a new layer and slid it underneath the extract layer. I then made the extract layer active and made a selection with the rectangular marquee and copied it to the clipboard, this was then used in Photoshop’s pattern generator directly from the clipboard to create the new background, as a final touch I added some accentuated strokes from the set of artistic filters.

Camera details (for original image); Pentax K100D, 135mm lens, 1/180 second, f13, iso 200

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Jarrow Festival No. 3

Chopping cabbages!

The guys from South Shields Daily Photo were quite surprised at the agility of these warriors on horseback. They were demonstrating the effectiveness of the battle sword used in the 12th century at the medieval fayre in Jarrow at the start of the festival week. Cabbages mounted on poles were used to represent human heads- you can clearly see the results of the encounter.

Camera details; Pentax K100D, 1/750 second, f5.6, iso 200

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