It’s a beautiful day
I honestly try not to go in for the “Oh, look what an amazing photo I’ve taken” type of blog entry (and haven’t jumped on board the Flickr bandwagon like everyone else has), except maybe unless you count my gallery section.
But whilst on my latest soujourn here out in the good ol’ U S of A (Total time Geoff has spent in pressurised cabins this year : 53 hours) I’ve been using my new D50 more than ever, especially as they’ve been nice, sunny, beautiful days.
So instead of a “10 things” or a list of any description (because I’m used to everything now, and the only quirky observation that I can come up with this time is the fact that some of their roads have a minimum speed limit, as well as a maximum one) you can just have some of my favourite photos so far – and I wouldn’t put them up unless I did really like them.
[Click on each picture for the full sized original - they're over 1Mb big each though]
Top left and bottom left: A wedding took me to Boone Hall plantation in Charleston. Outdoor weddings in the spring and the fall are popular here.
Top right and bottom right: Out for a walk in the midtown Charleston district of Hampton Park.
Watching the waves crash against the breakers at Folly Beach.
Oh, and the scarf thing:
Congratulations to James (Comment #13 in previous post). It is indeed M&S. Not that I was really running a competition, but name a US treat that you can’t get in the UK and I’ll bring it back and post it to you.
After living in London for the first 33 years of my life and working for the 
So for ten weeks in June, July and August 2009, I drove 20,000 miles around the the lower 48 contiguous states of the USA visiting towns and places that shared the same name as places on The London
Cracking pics there Geoff. I almost want a D-SLR myself, but for the cost.
I’m worried.
You just used the word ‘fall’ instead of ‘autumn’ with no sense of irony…
Got the hang of continuous shooting mode then, mate?
..I also said M&S – so if you aren’t sulking, I(We) would like a “Baby Ruth”!
I’ve just realised a minor quirk : Clocks have gone forward there in the UK, but not here in the US until next week, so there’s currently a 6 hour time difference instead of a 5 hour one. Hmm.
Rob – “not that I was really running a compeition” I said. And by “not really running a competition rules” means that it’s the first person to get it, not the second. You were still referring to Leigh as my ‘tour guide’ which puts you waaaaaay behind anyway …
(And yes, that is her hand in the second picture)
Cool photos! =)
It’s a hand! I thought it was a rag :$
Well well, Geoff is marrying a hand … maybe its “Thing” from the Adams family? Do we have something in common then? Our wives (or in your case, wife to be) share the same surname, Adams?
Oh.my.gawd. I noticed the use of ‘fall’ too. And I can add.. you using the words “my new cell phone” yesterday did not escape my notice either. Heh. A damned yank is what you are becoming. Welcome to the good ole USA. And from one photo-blogger to another, I’ll forgive you for doing a photo blog post today.
When we asked for a picture of her, we were hoping for more than a hand.
Ps. It’s only top left and bottom left on really wide screens!
Great pictures!
Tell me, do they know your name on the plane now?
Oooh! Yummy photos Geoff. I now know what I want for my 40th birthday from the Great Mend. I shall of course expect a full tutorial from yerself.
Send howdies to nearly-madame-geoff-leigh from us.
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What do you do with the clock on the camera?
Mine’s pretty dumb and it’s easy to forget to change it so I just leave it set to GMT all year round.
Yes, I’ve decided to reveal her to you piece-by-piece over the next 16 posts. It’s an iBlog “slow reveal”. Collect 16 iBlog posts over the next few weeks to reveal Leigh in her entirety.
You also get a free binder at the end of it all to put her in. Postage & Packaging not included. Your statuatory right are not affected, etc…
#12 – DS, amusingly i found that i DID recognise the flight attendant/stewardess as the same person I had last time when on the same flight! I guess she does the same route a lot. My air miles are building nicely though now.
Re Air miles: – got enough to get (both of you) to NZ for your honeymoon?
*tuts* Your air miles may be building, but what about that carbon footprint huh?! No washing clothes or driving a car for the next 20 years for you young man
Oh, and my anagram mug from Cafe Press arrived this morning!!
Is the first installment half price? Will these photos build into an attractive and useful reference?
#16…..& she probably thought “Oh, it’s that bloke in the gay-scarf again…!”
#20 – ian, for it to build into an attractive and useful reference, we’d still need to be collecting them in 4 years, have spent close to £1000, and have a house full of miniture limited edition Leigh figures to stand on.
Potential lucrative idea! Geofftech merchandise!
Posable Geoff and Leigh action figures!
Geoff ‘n’ Neil Guinness World Record playset!
Geoff’s iPod Fundraising Challenge (board game)!
Geofftech Battle: TfL Lawyer Edition (available on PS2, PSP, Xbox, Gamecube and PC)!
Some of our roads have minimum speed limits too. The Dartford tunnel springs to mind, possibly.
I emailed a slightly more grateful version to you, but in case you can’t check:
Interesting oreos of your choice please! Thanks.
Nice photos too. And I don’t think I’ve flown for 53 hours IN MY LIFE!
Lovely images
What a great idea for the CafePress items!
#25-You’re in luck-
We’ve got yellow center oreos right now for Easter!
Where? I can’t find oreos anywhere here, not even normal ones!
I saw some in Sainsburys recently, also Rackhams has them. I could get you some, I guess
27. You have to get a Stateside girlfriend to get regular Oreos sent to England.
17. Hawaii for the honeymoon.
21. The gay scarf must be retired. Know what I thought when I saw it? It reminded me of a certain brand of toothpaste in the States: Aquadent I think… colored wiht all manner of minty stripes. Ditch the toothpaste-striped scarf… your fashion advice of the day. Unless you’re *looking* for that gay attention in the men’s loo that is.
#29 – Does anyone mind if I play the sympathy card?
#26 – Mmmm, indeed! i’ve just spent the last 10 minutes drinking tea, and eating a stack of these:
I love that I can buy oreo’s in the UK now *g* And I love that Ocado will deliver me wonderful tubs of mini oreos *grins*
Actually, I think Wild Cherry Pepsi is the only thing I yearn for but can’t get here.. though I have found this website that satisfies just about ALL of my cravings *L*
If you’re going to use your D50 to photograph biscuits, then I shall have it taken away and given to someone more deserving.
#33 – but i set it up in manual mode and everything and took various pictures – and used the best one. doesn’t that count for something?
33 & 34…COOKIES, dammit! Not biscuits!
Kris,
You see that “.co.uk” in the address? That mean Biscuits, colours, pavements, nappies, taps, Autumn, flats (the living space, not the shoes), chips being thick & hot, cider being alcoholic (and how), lifts, fags being something you smoke, rubbers being something you correct mistakes with, jelly being a dessert, Professors having got their Ph.D more than two weeks ago, pants being on the inside, and Tea, Dammit, TEA!
Until Jeff sells us all out, that is.
Does anyone know where to get Diet Dr Pepper from, as everywhere near me has stopped selling it. (I’m not on a diet, I just prefer the taste of most diet drinks.)
28. Thank you for the tip – I will look in Sainsburys next time I go.
36. Well said!
Nice, especially the flaming lantern. I got a D50 too. I’m liking it.
#37 – Nowhere. they’ve replaced with Dr Pepper Z – which for me is much better as its aspartame free, which means I can now drink it. oyur dodgy little shop at work has tons of it, as does most dodgy little shops in Shepherds Bush *L*
36. Hear, hear!
#36 What’s happened to the “special relationship” between The US & The UK…? Geoff’s
new Missus will soon be hen-pecking him to rid this blog of any Pinko/Fag/Commie/Subversive
infiltration…..!
On the subject of Geoff’s missus, does anybody know when Part 2 is out with the free binder?
I was down a bar in downtown Charleston, Tuesday evening … dingey, smokey, rock music, people sat up at the bar (which i will never get my head around), and pool tables .. and so a bunch of us were playing pool.
Think that they have stripes and spots? think again! – they have stripes and solids. Solids! I ask you … although they all thought that I was weird for calling them ‘spots’.
They don’t know how to rack the balls up either…
You do realise Jeff we now know why you got your camera?! To keep up with Leigh and her camera skills. I spotted the link to her site on the link you gave!
#33 – Geff, it’s a pressure thing – force/area – feet are relatively small compared to the average human’s weight (especially in the USofA, where the aveage weight may be a tad higher than us skinny Brits), so it saves people knackering out their feet
#36 – Pants on the inside doesn’t even happen here in Manchester, let alone America…
36. ‘Fraid Jeff has sold you out already. That’s what I told him on his CELL phone the other day while he was having a COFFEE at Starbucks and visiting TARGET to buy a new pair of PANTS (worn on the outside.)
#49. ’tis true. more and more words are entering my vocab on daily basis. on the plane home, i sat next to a an english guy, who i thought was american because he sounded so – he’d been living in alabamba for too long.
trouble is .. his english friends/family thought he sounded american, but his american buddies thought that he still sounded english – so this i guess is what is destined to happen to me, a halfway house morphing of my accent that is somewhere between english and american. eek! you may all of course take the piss when the time comes. (and i’m thinking of doing a weekly podcast when i head out west anyway, so you can hear my voice change as time goes on…)
#46. well spotted Paul .. but i’m only marrying her so that I can borrow all her Nikon-compatiable lenses anyway…