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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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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“Can I borrow your brolly?”
Juan Munoz’ artwork “The Conversation Piece” consists of 22 bronze figures such as these situated at Littlehaven Beach, South Shields. Conversation Piece is part of the Art on the Riverside project, the largest programme of public art in the UK, funded by a £3.5m National Lottery grant and £2.7m from public and private sources. Locally they are more popularly known as “The Weebles”.
As you can see it was a miserable wet day when I photographed these four, and they looked as though they fancied the shelter of my umbrella!
Camera details; Pentax K100D, 28mm lens, 1/350 second, f3.5, iso 200
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North Sea dippers
Although we have had one or two warm afternoons recently, I wouldn’t consider the North Sea to be quite ready to accept dippers for cooling off just yet.
However, these lads seemed to be enjoying themselves off Sandhaven Beach, South Shields.
Camera details; Pentax K100D, 450mm lens, 1/1500 second, f5.6, iso 200
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Shop display, Harton Nook
A splash of colour found on a grey afternoon at this florists shop on Harton Nook, South Shields.
Vegetarian rabbit treats for only 20p per bag Send your rabbits shopping here!
Camera detail; Pentax K100D, 82mm lens, 1/350 second, f9.5, iso 200
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