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New Blog Advert

I've adapted an idea I saw online to make an advert for my blog - I will put it up at the symposium I am attending the week after next  - and will see if I get any more hits.

Here is another picture which amused me.

Awesome fridge advert

Their fridges are this good apparently; 
 

As seen at http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/bosch_refrigerator_dinosaur_leg

Or if you prefer something fresher how about a Sabertooth fillet 
 

From here http://adsoftheworld.com/media/print/bosch_refrigerator_sabertooth_filet?size=_original

I find the leg photo the best especially with the claws! There are various stories of mammoth researchers working in Siberia eating slices of permafrost frozen mammoth - some say it was disgusting or tasteless others that it was as tasty as 'fresher' meat.

Kimmeridge Clay Ichthyosaur Paddle

Here (link) is an awesome picture of a fossil ichthyosaur paddle found in 2003 near Osmington Mills. The original story can be read on Ian West's website here;
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/kimfoss.htm
It's a great read and really makes me wish I was back in Dorset instead of being in Scotland.

Background image

I've been changing the background colour of this bolg frequently usually because new photos have clashed with the original colour. So I decided to create a background image with a ichthyosaur which is more related to the blog title. Here is the design I sketched last night. I cant get the blog description to move out of the way of the paddle so for the moment its difficult to read but no one reads this blog anyway!

The sketch is from an illustration of ichthyosauras communis in Dictionnaire Universel D'Histoire Naturelle published by Alcide d’Orbigny in 1849. It can be seen on google books here. There are some other good images and information in Ian West's Dorset website; http://www.soton.ac.uk/~imw/liasfos.htm

‘Fossil’ clothing

I’m a sucker for ‘branded’ clothing – anything with palaeontology logos. Here are a couple of my favourites;

http://www.threadless.com/submission/250874/know_your_dinosaurs - (I know a pterodactyl isn’t a dinosaur and so does the designer!)

A proper palaeontologist once told me they liked this – ego trip there for me.

http://www.cafepress.co.uk/+fossil_dark_tshirt,195297220

The links are to the shop websites - I can't put pictures on here beacuse of copywrite.

More pinhole photography

Here are some pinhole camera photos I took at Wardie Shore – as you can see the wall I rested the camera on wasn’t horizontal. 

These last 2 are very dark - they were taken at the same time but 180 degrees in the opposite direction. It shows how much sunlight is needed fro good shots - or more shutter time. Lots of scope for practice here.

I wish I had thought to get a picture of the sunset to accompany this digital one.