Cambridge Dusk in Infrared

It was an overcast dull evening yesterday for our CCC meet up in Cambridge so I used my Sony RX100 infrared-converted camera. These are jpegs from the camera where a camera style had been chosen to give this colour rendition.

 

What No Supermoon

On Wednesday evening we were promised the brightest full moon in 2022 so I chose a good view point and waited. Unfortunately a bank of cloud completely covered the eastern sky although the western sky presented a lovely colourful sunset. In the field, the harvest is underway.

Boscombe Beach at Dusk

A beautiful evening for photography on my final evening in Dorset on Sunday - these are a timed set of images taken looking approximately west  towards the sunset (left image) and towards the east (right image) as darkness fell and a small crescent moon rose. In the last image the Needles lighthouse on the Isle of Wight can be seen on the righthand side.

London Long Exposures at Dusk

I purchased a variable neutral density filter some years ago and was disappointed that it didn't work on my Fuji wide-angle lens. However I recently tried it on the X1000v and found it worked fine so I am now experimenting with very long exposures. Christmas Day was very murky and misty in London. Here are a few images that worked relatively well with the filter rotated to give 30-50 seconds exposures. Keeping the camera still on a fairly flimsy tripod proved a challenge!

Trafalger Square Fountains and Lights

The first four images of Trafalgar Square were taken yesterday at the blue hour as dusk arrived. The Christmas market added another dimension to the images but the fountains are the stars. We had a break for something to eat and returned an hour later when it was fully dark and exposures of 30 seconds were need. My favourite is the last image with the spotlight illuminating Nelson and the cloud breaking using a10mm lens.

Dusk and Dawn at Trowell, Nottinghamshire

I was staying at the Travelodge on the M1 at Trowell and went straight out on foot on arrival back there on Sunday afternoon from the trip to Blacktoft Sands - it was almost dark but managed one photo with the colour still in the sky and a blueish tinge to the snow. The next morning I headed out again before sunrise and took the same scene but now the colours were reversed with some pinkish light on the snow and a blueish sky. The next photos are in time sequence as we got nearer to sunrise. The next set will show the landscape once the sun had risen.

London - Dusk at East India

After a very hot day in Canary Wharf area, I took a stroll down to the Thames at East India where my Travelodge was and recording the fading light. They have created a great nature reserve in the East India dock basin - full of birds including 2 Egrets, 2 Herons, Coot, etc etc. With only a 23 mm lens, I could only record the birds in habitat. Great views of O2 and Docklands development though not many lights on to lift the scene. All handheld but give an idea of the Thames in the evening and the walk back to the TL.