3101 Glimpse of Sun

Strangely, I didn't realise that the sun had made an appearance until I looked back at today's collection of pictures. I had noticed the cyclists, but not the unusual turn in the sky. There must be a lesson there somewhere.

After the wettest January for 100 years, I'm submitting this picture in the spirit of hope!

3001 Day into Night

Daylight fades, shop signs light up, and people rush home, as night life prepares to roll.

2901 Wet Wednesday Shopping

This is a snapshot of Leicester City Centre from a lunchtime shopping expedition in, yet again, the rain.

2801 Ragged Snowdrops

Not surprisingly, I have snowdrops in my garden, but as they're constantlly hammered by rain, they look a little nervous!

2701 Strange Tree

This one I found purely by sight, which is unusual. It is not many yards from where I live but in many years living here, I've never seen it before. By chance, the light along the alleyway where the tree standsw was enough to catch my eye.

2601 Sunset

After a day of cold and driving rain, I certainly didn't expect to see anything as colourful as this!

2501 Thunderstorm Through Window

It may have only lasted for about 15 minutes, but this little storm was quite vicious as it battered my windows.

2401 Reluctant sun

Hard to believe, maybe, but today's photo shows the sun at midday. Although the days are getting longer, and I notice new growth on hedges and in the garden, we are still in the throes of winter, and only a month since the winter solstice.

2301 Industrial Rainbow

It was occasionally sunny this afternoon, but not for long, and rain-showers came and went. When both happened together, I looked behind me at the right moment to capture the rainbow. It was lucky I did, because the sun disappeared the next second.

I was in a mixed-up area of town on Melton Road near to Watermead Way and the new Sainsbury's. It's an uneasy mix of industrial units, shops, little residential pockets and masses of traffic. Oh, and the odd patch of grass.

2201 I enjoy being a gull

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2101 What are your chances?

Wat are your chances of surviving this deadly crossing point by the betting shop?

Every so often, we read in the papers of some sort of miracle cure where someone gets their sight back, and we have to be delighted that someone has the chance of this new life. The trouble for some people is that they can't make sense of what they see, which must be incredibly disconcerting. This often comes to mind when I'm at some complicated junction in the road, and I realise how well I make sense of it, while someone disorientated by a sudden inflow of visual data would probably find it too much. This flat photo is more confusing to me than actually being there, and being able to hear the various engines of the vehicles, being able to feel the slip-streams of the vehicles as they fly by, smelling the exhausts, hearing the tyres on the road, the boom-boxes within and somtimes the irate shouts of the occupants. I am quite used to interpreting this complex information, and, above all, surviving in relative safety.

Hope these are not famous last words!

2001 Frosty Sunrise

It was an usually cold morning by the standards of this winter, in contrast to the warm colour of the sunlight.

1901 Sunset River

1801 Very long lead

When it's not safe to let my dog run free, I make a compormise by letting him run around on a very long flexi-lead. He quite likes it!

The light was terrible today, and so were some of the measures I had to take to make this visible.

1701 Planter Thing

Discovered in Abbey Park, Leicester. This looks pretty lively for mid-January!

016 Find the post-box

One of the great benefits of a guide dog is that the dog can find things that might escape you otherwise. Find the door, find a seat, find left (= bear left), find the bin, find the step..... and, even, find the post-box.

Why should anyone like me with a bit of sight need the dog to find a large, bright red object like a post-box? Well, I am red-green deficient, with a particular weakness at the red end of the specturm. I wouldn't worry in bright sunshine, but in dull conditions, the post-box could easily go unnoticed.

My dog knows to locate the post-box and sit by it until I tell him to move on. He learned this in one session, and, yes, he is pretty bright!

1501 Tree of clouds

Maybe I've got a fevered imagination, but the clouds in this look as if they're spreading like a tree.

1401 Bridge at midday

Road bridge seen from the river with midday sun shining through, and a gull flyingn

1301 Upstart

This photo was taken a few feet away from the site of the January 1st photo, by the river near the Thurcaston Road bridge. The big difference was the completely different atmosphere. On the 1st January, it was grey, wet, and grim. Today there was a clear sky and bright sunshine.

I was alerted to one duck among the flock who was showing dangerous signs of independence, and stood up in the water flapping its wings. Who knows, it could have taken off and flown! It did not while I was there, but there was enough noise from its wings that I couldn't really miss it.

1201 The Weir

The lower the river gets, the louder the water cascading over this weir. If I can't hear it at all, that means the river must be very high.

1101 Driving into the Sunset

1001 It's your big-ends, mate

I came across a car-repair man conducting an autopsy, and all the attendant hardware making a metal puzzle of the pavement.

0901 Twilight from the disabled person's seat

Travelling on the bus from town at about 5pm, another passenger helpfully pointed out that there was a spare seat with room for my guide dog, which turned out to be primarily for wheelchair users. I could not help but notice a twilight glow in the sky, and it's good to see the days getting slowly longer. Can spring be far behind?

0801 Bare Tree

A stark image on a rather stark, dull day, the coldness of a bare tree.

0701 Rice 'n' Tings

In something of a departure from my normal subject matter, I tried some food photography. Needs a little work, I daresay!

0601 Space Centre and Pool

This morning was, mercifully, sunny, but that didn't stop me catching a reflection of the National Space Centre in a pool swollen by the recent flood waters.

0501 Spotty Clouds

An unexpected break in the storm clouds this morning actually gave us sight of the sunrise. I'm not sure this is quite a mackerel sky, all the clouds in it being so small, but it was a marvellous sight.



0401 Pigeons

Favourite roosting place for pigeons until my dog arrives! Some brave and bedraggled souls stayed behind on this wet and miserable day.

0301 Dalek in stormy sky

The National Space Centre in Leicester looks enough like one of the Daleks from Dr Who as it is, but with a street lamp sticking out of the top of it, even more so.

I could pretend this was artistic wit or creativity, but really it was an accident, and I knew nothing about it until I came to edit today's photos.

The sky was rather strange, some of the clouds having an unusual chalky yellow colour. We are expecting storms in the UK, so some turbuelnce up there is to be expected.

0201 Back to work day

Wandering around my city centre today, the themes were obviously people back at work and people volunteering for more retail torture at the sales even though you'd imagine they'd had enough before Christmas.

0101 Happy New Year, and welcome to Sensory Photography!

New Year means new ventures for many of us, and probably frustrated results down the road. As things stand, I wanted to create a space where I could put up a daily photo if that's feasible, and where I can write the occasional article. I won't undertake to put up a photo every day of the year, which is why I haven't signed up to a more formal 365 project.

Today wasn't a promising start, the weather being dull and very wet, but I have to start somewhere, and here is today's result.