I woke up this morning around 5.30am, but I couldn't get back to sleep, looking out the window it looked sunny, and seeing as I am on holiday, I decided to get up and watch the sunrise over the north sea.Equipped with my camera, filters and tripod, I thought I'd do some long exposure photography, there's some great rocks on this beach as well as strange structures, the sky however was phenomenal, there was a rain storm out to see and with the light from the sun, it made the sky glow, there was also a bit of a fog bank, and when the sun hit the sea, you could see fog rising, it kind of looked like steam coming off the water.

I'm currently on holiday in Norfolk in the UK, I do love it down here with the quaint little villages with houses that have thatched roofs to the seaside resorts that remind me of places I visited as a kid.One thing I really do loved around here though is the dark skies, it's great for astronomy, so last night I thought I would go on the beach and try and get the milkyway, there is some strange structure in the water, in which I have absolutely no idea what it is or why it's there, but makes for a great foreground when shooting, slightly in the wrong direction for the milkyway though.

I've finally done it, I've attended my first "proper" rave, I am nearing 50 years now, and way back in my teens I loved to listen to the old breakbeat hardcore tracks that hit the UK by storm, it was a predecessor of jungle music as well as drum and bass, and I loved this sort of music, one of the reasons I think is that it a lot of it was produced on the old Commodore Amiga computers, not forgetting as well that this kind of music was that got me into music production, so I do owe a lot to hardcore music.

(Final Image, which I absolutely love)Friday night I got invited out by a photographer friend to do some night photography, I couldn't make it as I was working until 8pm and was back in work early the following day, anyhow, things were in my favour as it clouded over so my friend cancelled anyways, but last night was different, last night we had some clear skies and I wasn't working the following day either :-)

I feel lucky as things are at the moment, well at least for one thing, and that is a field at the end of the garden, this field however has been scheduled for a new housing estate, even though it was greenbelt land, but the local council re-designated it so it could be built on.

A couple of nights ago, I had the intentions of staying up to see the Perseid meteor shower at it's peak, and also do a bit of milkyway photography. It was an unusual night as it was the first clear night we've had in months, it just seems like cloud after cloud, I set up the telescope in the garden, and sat there waiting for it to get dark, it was so wonderful to see all the stars as the slowly appeared as the hand of the night tightened it's grasp.