CCC King's Cross Outing 1. The Tunnel

Always a great location for images, many of us started our photography in the underground tunnel. I started playing with shutterspeeds to see the effect on the tunnel lighting. The faster shutterspeeds (above 1/200th) gave patterns in the wall as did slow speeds 1/60th (image 7). The smooth effects as in image 2 were shot at 1/125th - no doubt someone will add an explanation. Also here a couple of in-camera multiexposures

Boscombe Pier

For our last evening in Dorset, we visited Boscombe as the sun went down and the lights came on  (images in approximate order of taking except the last taken before the pier illuminations). The pier lights give a lot of downward illumination so produced images under and around the pier that were very colourful. The pier has a very long history of failures from the first pier in 1889 to the present pier. Hopefully this one will stay structurally sound for a good many years. 

Wet Evening on Riverside

Only  Malcom (with a very clever tripod umbrella clamp), Paul (with his fancy torch), and I braved the fairly heavy rain for last night's Wednesday workshop at Riverside in Cambridge. Certainly no chance of star trails!! I used a fish eye and then a 18-55mm lens (different star burst effects), neither of which have an adequate hood but here are a few shots that I liked including one of several boats exercising up and down the river.

 

Bubble Against the Sunrise

Bubbles, our very fluffy grey cat loves to sit on the windowsill warming himself with the radiator below and the sunlight streaming in. 

 

Madingley Snowdrops

The snowdrops are at their best at the moment, especially, as here, early on a sunny morning. Taken at f1.8 with a Canon macro lens attached Fuji mirrorless giving very shallow depth of field and interesting highlights

Late-Forming Mist

It was frosty and clear early this morning but as the temperature warmed a mist developed giving lovely soft landscapes in Toft. I liked the way the lichen 'pixie cups' all had their frozen droplet.