This blog is ALL my OWN work , I take all the Photos myself. I use a basic Samsung PL 22 14mp camera with 5x zoom.

I travel all over the West Midlands and beyond for my work. I take pictures when out running, cycling, walking. I see so much I'd like to keep a record.

We've travelled all over in our VW campervan - I'm not a photographer, but I hope I can capture just a little of what I see. Please click on the photos for information about them and click again for a large image. Please feel free to reblog as many photos as you like - search the archive for more it goes back to March 2012.
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Red flowering cactus, Jardin de cactus, Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Today is the 1st Anniversary of vwcampervan-aldridge, these are some of the most popular pictures I have taken from the year. http://www.tumblr.com/blog/vwcampervan-aldridge
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Water fall feature Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote 2011, from the holiday archive
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Bedtime Cactus - Can’t remember if this is small and the flowers large or the other way around! Looks great.  Jardin de Cactus , Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime cactus - Just growing wild, minding it’s own business. Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Flowering cactus - the flowers come right out on stalks with the large central pieces they look like triffids. Last few Bedtime Cactus pictures left.
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Bedtime Cactus - The flowers are bigger that the plant, it doesn’t seem right for some reason!  Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime cactus - this colourful little fellow reminds me of the flowering pods of the *Invasion of the Body Snatchers* film , the one with Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams.  Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Cactus - Giant Exercise ball sized Cactus, you wouldn’t want to bounce on these though! Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Cactus - Looks like a fluffy tree? , no, it’s a solid mass of solid stiff spines.Hurts even to touch let alone grasp! Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Cactus - Looks like some kind of spiky bear! Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime cactus - Another huge one, solid with vicious spines all over it. Imagine falling over it where it grows naturally? Imagine the injuries:( Jardin de Cactus - Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Cactus - Look at all these Cactus! Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 2011. 
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Bedtime Cactus - looks like a bird. It’s superb!! Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 20011
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Bedtime cactus - I remember taking this and this thing was the size of a gym exercise ball! Jardin de Cactus , Lanzarote 2011
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Bedtime Cactus - this triffid like fellow is a Pachypodium Lameral. Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote 2011.