Grey Evening in Weston-Super-Mare

We took a brief walk along The Grand Pier before it closed at 4pm and then round to the old Birnbeck Pier via the Marine Lake. The Birnbeck Pier is still standing despite the sea and weather damage. It doen't look possible that it can be restored - very sad!

First Day Spring Cotswold Water Park

Each year, I record what is out in my garden in Cambridgeshire but, this year, we are away so here a selection from our lunch stop on the way to Malvern to talk in the evening.

People in British Library

The British library is a great place to rest, read, study, eat or, even, photograph.

 

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.