Andy Wallace Photography
Why, if it's not my old mate Eddie running an RYA Powerboat Course ...
Sunday, 5 February 2012
It was good to see a ‘craftsman’ at work this week in the form of Eddie Hadnett, a PLA pilot, who
in his spare time has started to run RYA accredited courses. The course I was invited to ‘capture’ was the practical part of an RYA level 2 Powerboat Course down at Denton. His two trainees, Colin and Ian, looked as if they were having far too much fun whilst giving the pilot launch a bit of ‘welly’, mind you I enjoyed being out on the river probably just as much, even though it was freezing cold. No posed photos on the launch but a few smiles broke out on the RIB as the guys tried to simulate movement on a boat that was going nowhere!
This morning (Sunday) I went out nice and early to get some photos of the snow which had fallen overnight. It was about 6 inches in depth and it was great fun making tracks where no one else had been. It was difficult to get some decent photos, mind you, as there was such a good covering everything was white and there was very little foreground interest to make the pictures interesting. Having said that I got some ‘keepers’ and I thoroughly enjoyed the two hour walk without hardly anyone around.
... and the best of the rest includes a Greater Spotted Woodpecker on a feeder in the garden this morning, the crane at PLA’s operational base at Denton (Gravesend) and the Pilot launch servicing a couple of ships ...
