This was taken outside Butterfly World, I.O.W. 2003. 

My name is Simon Kinsey and I have created this web site to provide a basic guide to what is recommended to see while visiting the Isle of Wight especially for families.  This was my first web site and I was inspired to do this by my love of The I.O.W., and my interest in photography, computers and Dave Parker's excellent I.O.W. Nostalgia site at http://www.invectis.co.uk/iow/index.htm 
 

I have four daughters Hayley {12}, Kerryn {10}, Erica and Phoebe {8 and identical twins} needless to say my wife Lisa has remarkable patience looking after them at our home in Toton, Nottingham.

2008:

We are all looking forward to our return visit to the Island in June this year. There are some changes to look at and I will try to visit some different pubs for food and the odd beverage. I am looking forward to having the opportunity to indulge in some more photography and some walking. Pictures will be 100% digital using my Canon 20D.

2006:
On our visit to The Island {July 23- August 6} this year we encountered very hot beach weather especially in the first week, during this time we experienced a fantastic electrical storm as viewed from the high point of Vernon's Cottage Tavern gardens one evening. We had some rich blue skies when it was hot.

The second week we had slightly cooler temperatures with mostly more cloud cover, however there was still some typical days which would become beach ones. We went to some pubs that we had not been to before, found one that is notoriously difficult to find and walked some new routes along the way.

In 2005 {3rd - 17th July} was yet again a good year, with the weather being fair and warm during the first week where we only had one day of rain, this was the week that we did most of our walking.  The second week was very hot indeed with rich blue skies and no rain whatsoever, and in one instance was too hot to be on a beach and we had to leave to find shade. 

We went to many different places last year and we walked more than the previous year, and we saw red squirrels on three occasions. 

Camera:
All pictures within this site {with the exception of the Victorian ones and those within the readers' pictures section} have been taken by myself on a Canon EOS 50E with either 28-80mm, 100-300mm/50mm lenses with a bare minimum of filters and using Fuji Reala/Sensia/Velvia films, and more recently a Canon 300D.  Older images and some new ones have been scanned using my CanoScan 8000F scanner and these were taken with a small Ricoh FF70 35mm camera many years ago. 

There has not been any colour adjustment with software in any of my images. 40% of 2005 years pictures were taken with my digital Canon 300D and existing lenses.  2006: 100% of pictures were taken with my digital SLR camera {300D} and my new lens a Sigma 18-50 2.8 EX DC lens. I am very happy with the results and have learnt how to cope with very bright days and/or overcast skies.
 

Thank you for looking at my web site and feel free to add comments to my guestbook.

by contacting me at:  isle-of-wightattractions@ntlworld.com 

Have a look at my new mini site about  The Derwent Dams, Derbyshire.