Water, Brush, colour

Another painted birthday present. This time for Big C (the paparazzi). Maybe not the best one I have ever done, but its ok. More to come, per usual

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Take Me Back To The Windy City....

Pictures from Glastonbury, as promised. They are all by Big C, my personal paparazzi! LoL He is soooo good!. Enjoy!
Base Jumping!
Super Heroes! (this one is by me!)
AHH WIND!

look MOM NO HANDS!!!!

Fiction Forest

The Epic shots from Big C. I told you he is my own personal paparazzi. Enjoy!

More Adventuring...

Went to Glastonbury today. Here is a link to my Facebook page that has all the images up. If you like certain ones and want them e-mail me and I will send them to you. Glastonbury was beautiful. And yes, I have been there before, but it is always nice to go back. This time, I went with Big C, Josh, his girl Vio, and her two Spanish friends.

Glastonbury

Forest of Fancy

Went on a trip with Josh and Big C today. Josh is a friend of mine who does Landscape Archaeology. We drove South and East to a place called New Forest, which is very close to Southampton. It is really not terribly far from where I will be going on Monday to do my 'recy' (reconnaissance) trip with Karen for our final film before dissertations. Map for locales if you are interested (Click Here).

There were supposed to be more people going today, but in the end it was just the three of us which worked out really well, actually. We saw some wild ponies, I almost touched one, she let me get really close! ran around in the rain, climbed trees, crossed a small river, and an amazing lunch at some local pub, and just generally had a great day! Here are some of my better shots, mind you it was pouring down rain at the time so the pictures aren't as great as they could have been, but some turned out rather well. Again, I am sure that there will be some better photos, even some with me in them, later on. So when they show up (Big C or Josh's photos) I will post them.

Josh Dunn

Big C

More, More, Exmoor!

Well, as promised there were some epic pictures that came from other folks in the MAASM crew that revisited Exmoor. And thanks, as usual to Big C and his stellar camera stills we even have a group shot. The pictures below are done by the person whose name appears below them. Enjoy!

By: Big C
Big C
By: Karen Wood
By: Karen Wood

By: Big C with the help of the Land Rover

Right to left: Me, Karen, Ros, Phil, Big C, Pods, Devika, Leanne, Elle

Oh My.....

Eventful day, today was. We met at the Drama department at 9 AM, which had been switched the day before from 930AM, to take a mini bus to London to visit the British Library, which is very impressive by the way. The mini bus was late so we didn't end up leaving until just before 930AM (approx. 925AM). We then almost hit a wall getting out of the Drama department car park. We nearly made it to London in a record 2 hours and 30, mind you we had all taken bets to see how long it would take us to get there, due to the fact that our favorite driver was once again at the helm (Greg, bless him).

Once we reached London the real excitement began. We pulled into the first car pack and the attendant told Greg that we would not fit, so we would have to go else where. The lovely attendant guided us backwards out of the precarious position that we had pulled into and stopped traffic for us to turn around. What a doll. We tried to go into the car park next door, which was for mini buses and buses, but were informed that these spaces were only for certain 'special vehicles' so we weren't allowed to park there either. This would be a good time to add that the stipulations of the bet were: the total time it would take from when we actually started rolling to when we had finally parked the mini bus. We then drove round London, almost hit a car pulling out into traffic, as well as a pedestrian, attempted to pull into a car park that we were obviously too big for, cracked the roof of the mini bus, dented the car park shutter, got yelled at by the attendant there, Phil got threatened by him, and then finally parked on the street.

The winner of the bet was Pods at 3hours 40 mins. I wasn't that far off with 4 hours even.

We then went into the the British Library, by this time late for our private tour. Went up stairs with our guide, were denied access due to some miss communication (no one had told security that we were coming, apparently). We were eventually let in, were about half way through our 2 hour tour when the fire alarm, of course, went off. So we had to evacuate the building and spend the better part of an hour outside (thankfully it was sunny, though not terribly warm).

Once back inside we had a somewhat hastened version of what was to be our original tour and then finished the evening by going to O'Neills pub across the road, where Greg bought us a drink, bless.

Just to add, as a side note, we did make it back to Bristol in one piece. Angela drove us home, as Greg apparently, unbeknownst to us, lives in London! and went home. We got back at 945PM. The End.....

(Greg you are fabulous! Thanks for driving us around!)

So what did you all do today? hahaha

Way Better Than Yours

We had a lovely day in Exmoor today. Our return trip was as fun, if, in fact not more fun, than the last time we were there. Nine of us MAASMs went in a land rover. We got out at the first place we were able, on the Moors for a good run around and exploration. Of course, I was off running and jumping and getting myself into precarious positions amongst the shrubbery, as usual. I am sure that some of our more accomplished photographers will shortly send me photos of my antics, so that I may then share them with you, but for now you will have to settle with some of the less entertaining photos that I took.

Also, I have included some more photos from Big C's birthday photo walk. So enjoy those. He is an amazing photographer and generally established as my personal paparazzi person hahaha.

Exmoor:

Ros: "Contemporary Archaeology!!!! LOOK, I found it!" hahah


Rhodri aka 'Pods' stuck in the bramble bushes

The Sea!
hide and seek, archaeological style
lounging at the Roman Fortlet
Elle and Phil

Big C's photo's from the Photo Walk:

Leanne
Gingy in the ginger tree!
Devika
MAASM March
MAASM the Album (lol)

'Copy That'

It will take me a bit before I can get the film I made up, due to some copyrighting information that needs to be put on the film before posting it online for all to see. I can say, however, that it was a huge success!! Our professor, who initially had great apprehensions about the idea we presented, was very enthusiastic about how well it had turned out in the end. She even said, "well you know how I felt about your idea, but you guys pulled it off! You actually pulled it off! I am very impressed!" So needless to say that made my week. Today, we celebrated one of our groups birthdays by taking a "photo walk" of Bristol led by the birthday boy himself. Below are some of the pictures that I took during the journey.

I am off to Exmoor again tomorrow. If you remember, this is where we started our year out by having a week long trip with our entire MA group, approx. 30 of us, and our professors. Well the MAASM, my group, felt that we needed sometime outside the class room to enjoy archaeology and the outdoors and to learn how to use some new industry level cameras in the field. So we are traveling back to favorite place from the semester. It really is only about an hours drive away, so not terribly far. We are going to spend all day there and then Tuesday we are off to London to visit the British Library with our prof and programme director Angela. It will be great fun both days.

I am starting work on my fourth film soon. My team mate and I haven't yet decided on what we are going to do but when we know then you will know. Hope that everyone is enjoying themselves. By the way today, Sunday, March 14th, is Mothers day here in the UK. So from the UK, Happy Mothers Day!!!

this one is my favorite of the pictures I took today.

By Hand

Here are the birthday cards and present that I said I would post pictures of. They were well received =0)

Poem for this one:

To see the unseen

on the road unknown,

To follow your feet

unbothered by being alone.

To stand on a cliff

to see the world ahead,

Not to fall a drift

in the chasm instead.

These are the ways of wise men,

these are the things that they know.