Thetford Miscellany

At the time of the Norman conquest, Thetford was the sixth largest town in England. Even in 1737 when Thomas Paine, the English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary, was born in Thetford, it was an important market town. 

 Thetford is also known for being  the town ( Walmington-on-Sea) that was used for the filming of the Dad's Army series. The Guildhall features in several episodes and in 2010 a statue of Captain Mainwaring was unveiled in Thetford

Everything that I attempted to visit in Thetford was closed either for the day (Art Gallery), or for unknown reasons (Priory) or rather permanently (Terminus Hotel).

Rugby

 The light was very bright yesterday so, although good to be able to set a fast shutterspeed, the images were very contrasty. It was quite a tussle between Cambridge RUFC and visiting Tynedale and Cambridge snatched vistory in the last minute of injury time with a penalty.

Local Sunflowers

 It is a couple of weeks since I did the full circuit walk round our village allotments and was delighted to find the fallow field is now full of Sunflowers just about at their peak.

Dogs, Horses and Legs

What an amazing collection of dogs at the Gransden Show today  - they came in ones,  twos and more and always among the feet.

I was also intrigued the way the horses and their handlers ran exactly in step.

Macro with Flash

A few shots taken in very windy conditions yesterday using a Speedlight 550 flash with my 100 is macro lens experimenting to see how slow a shutterspeed will work and still give lighting on the background. The slowest shutterspeed here is 1/40th so often not quite enough depth of field.

Ely Cathedral

 I took my Tilt and Shift 24mm lens for an outing to Ely Cathedral yesterday with our visitors from Guernsey. The dull light helped to allow a balance of windows and interior light. These images needed no perspective correction. A tricky lens to use but helped by the live view facility on the Canon 5D as it is totally manual.

Southwold and Walbleswick

 Great day out with club members from Cambridge CC and our visitors from Spectrum Guernsey.