The blog of Doug

Wow Katies 6 months old today seems like no time at all and yet a lot has happened. Nice day to spend in the hospital then.

Off to have my paw fixed tomorrow, a couple of bumps on my knuckles need a good seeing to so while my fingers still work I thought I would tap this out.

Hope they are OK for the next old fools trip down south in a couple of weeks.

Plenty of catching up to do on the blog, been working too hard still but managed a couple of bike type events with the Mach Hare last weekend and an Ixan trial the weekend. I think the allure of tea and cakes half way round on a wonderful spring day gives this years March Hare the edge over a muddy and rainy trial in the woods. Both enjoyable but you can't beat a good bit of home made cake.

Katies starting solids at the moment too, still as cute as a cute thing. This being a dad thing is quite an amazing experience.

Have to add some more interesting things here when I get a chance and quite probably will be from my new macbook due at the end of the week with any luck...

So i've been looking at ths video stuff a bit more recently and just wanted remember this clip, it's in HD and shows off something I have wanted to dabble with for a long time; time lapse photography.

Also catching my attention is the RED one, a digital equivalent to a full on cinema setup, there is a bunch of footage shot on one here. Interesting too is the up comming use of DSLR cameras to shoot video like the canon 5d mkII, a good article here.

Technology moves on and these first generation cameras will soon be followed up by some more affordable toys i'm sure. Be nice to make use of the big tellies everyone seems to have now.

Dusted off me old video camera today and caught Katie in yoodeling mode with her christmas crocodile, so thought i would try out Vimeo to share it. Squeakaroony.....

I didn't get a chance to go on this trip what with having babies and the like but my bike did. Geoff is too lazy to build his brand spanker so he borrowed mine. It's going to be a year old before it sees any vans on its shiny new pedals.

Anyway Paul Foster did a sterling job of cutting some of the action together...