An audioBlog accompanies this photograph [2.5 Mbytes, 5 min 39 sec duration]. The audio commentary is also distributed as a podcast. You need to subscribe to my RSS2 feed towards the bottom of the right hand column on this page and you need to use aggregator software capable of utilising this. The photograph is also included within the .mp3 file. View it via Apple’s iTunes artwork function on a PC or Mac, for example.

Not all by any means, but many rural properties have a rubbish tip somewhere around the place. Many dumps are hidden from view and many property owners dispose of large metal objects in gullies to slow the flow of stormwater and thus lessen erosion damge. The dump here, though, is easily seen from the road.

[Updated May 7: An audioBlog accompanies this photographs [3 Mbytes, 6 min 49 sec duration]. The audio commentary is also distributed as a podcast. You need to subscribe to my RSS2 feed towards the bottom of the right hand column on this page and you need to use aggregator software capable of utilising this. The photograph is also included within the .mp3 file. View it via Apple’s iTunes artwork function on a PC or Mac, for example.]



One of the nice things about the sun rising later in autumn and winter mornings is that I’m out and about at that time of day. There’s something special, magical even, about the atmosphere created by the light, the mist and the stillness.

Today, as an experiment, I present my images in sound rather than in photographs.

These sound pictures [4.1 Mbytes, 9 min 48 sec duration] were recorded during this morning’s walk with the dogs. Note:

• The audio is also distributed as a podcast.
• The download a podcast you need to use appropriate aggregator software that knows what to do with enclosures and subscribe to my RSS2 feed

Today you must let your imagination do the work. You’ll hear bird calls, frogs, boots on gravel, boots on grassland, dogs bathing in roadside culvert, dogs eating breakfast, and more birdcalls.

To continue the images in sound theme, the sounds were all captured using my compact camera, a Nikon Coolpix 3700 – the very same camera that I normally use to take photographs on my morning walks.