King's Cross London - The Face

Entitled 'The Magazine that Redefined Youth Culture', the hoarding around one of the remaining developments in the King's Cross area attracts a lot of attention from mobile phone cameras. Even the young man who had spent the previous 30 minutes looking at his phone eventually succumbed to its lure. A few reflections including one of myself apparently on stilts and a favourite view of the development showing the matching tones and colours. 

 

Pin-hole Photography Meets Lowry in London

When clearing out my photography shelves, I found my pin-hole lens and decided to have a play with it on our CCC trip to London. With the dull weather, exposures were long so generally I was hand holding at 1/4 or 1/2 second so many of the images showed too much shake to be useable but the occasional one gave images with a real Lowry look in tonality and colours. Also tried a bit of ICM with it which worked very well for me. The biggest problem is the removal of all the sensor dust spots as the equivalent aperture of  f1/152 has infinite depth of field!!

Black-Tailed Godwits

The late afternoon sun and the clear storm air revealed the full beauty of the Black-Tailed Godwits' plumage as they fed, bathed and slept all to a very rough water backdrop. Shame I didn't pick up focus on the front bird in the 'dragonfly' formation flight.

Birds in High Winds at Mistley Essex

I called in at Mistley to see what birds were managing to weather the storm and had a great hour watching and photographing the various species battling against the very strong winds. More images to follow of Black-tailed Godwits as they were the definite stars of the afternoon. Also enjoyed Shelduck, Pintail and Black-Headed Gulls feeding and preening. Thanks to Manningtree club for a warm welcome and especially Jenny for hosting me for the night.

CRUFC Narrowly Lose to Rotherham

Yesterday's match was a hard-fought battle that Cambridge narrowly lost. Unusual in that two of Rotherham's and one of Cambridge's tries came from penalty tries - the 14 and 7 points, respectively, were definite bonuses on a very windy afternoon and really decided the game in Rotherham's favour.