Devon & Cornwall. South West UK.

And the catalyst was guilt due to the lack of time. The workload on my record company and my healing work has increased dramatically. Sixteen hour days now, up from twelve as has the bulk of artwork from my friends appearing in the Bubble. (sometimes I sleep, LOL). And there lies the problem – I cant keep up with the submissions to the / Bubble – hence feelings of guilt. I loved commenting on other peoples work. The word WOW figured quite often as a result of seeing someone’s work. So not leaving, just popping in from time to time to explore for the Wow factor and make the odd comment. Perhaps up-load the odd photograph. If anyone would like to take over the moderation of the Watersports Group that would be appreciated. If any of my friends would like to stay in touch please email me on tago44@hotmail.com The plan is that, hopefully, the record company will make enough money for me to employ enough people to do some of my jobs. LOL. Then – well more time for the Bubble. All Blessings and thank you for being such good friends. Andy Reeve

I would like to thank the wonderful talented Queen of HDR, Irene Burdell for the brief interview she done of me today. Should anyone want to see my brief piece of fame, / please click Here Thank you Irene, for choosing me for your interview. / I feel honoured. Richard. x

Today, I went into the BIG CITY, Exeter, :-)), and took my trusty Pentax K110D to the London Camera Exchange (LCE) to have the sensor cleaned, which they do on site. / The guy called me about half hour later and asked if anyone had tried to clean it before, to which I said NO, apart from using the brushless blower to try and blow the dust away. / He said there was a thick residue on the sensor, and on discussing this with him, he was in total agreement that it was quite possibly due to the fact that there could have been some condensation in the blower, which ended up being sprayed on to my lovely sensor, so, that is a piece of equipment that I will not be using again. / The nice gentleman at the LCE charged me £30 for a lovely clean sensor, and the LCE can be found at the top end of Fore Street, just along from BHS, and opposite Jessops.

I recently purchased a Kood brushless blower, to blow away all those nasty little particles of dust that always seem to find their way onto the sensor. I have only done this a couple of times, and have started to notice that my sensor seems to be in a worse condition than before. My theory on this is that there is a small build up of condensation inside the blower, so that when I squeeze the blower, it blows the dust away, but at the same time, blasts small amounts of water (condensation) onto my sensor. Has anyone else experienced this, and is my theory a possibility ?

Yesterday, I put new batteries in my camera, after a little while it was showing that the batteries were running out, then the little flashing icon disappeared so I just thought that it must have been a blip. Today whilst we were out, the little icon started flashing again, so I thought I’d change the batteries and put it down to maybe they weren’t properly charged in the first place. Anyway, I went to get the batteries out and they were red hot!!! I got three out of the four out ok, but one was stuck and I had a hell of a job to get that one out, it was red hot and I actually burnt my finger tip trying to get it out. Eventually, with the hem of my t shirt, I managed to prise it out, but it was swollen and as I said, very hot. Now, has that happened to any of you, could it have been a rogue battery or do you think the battery mechanism in my camera has gone wrong? After my camera had cooled down, I put some other batteries in and it seemed ok with them.