“This is a fun 'Competition' for the summer break. You will be given 5 topics to take images of, process and upload within the 48 hours.”
Topics: Contrasts, Natural Beauty, From My Shopping Basket, Reflections, Speed.
Royston Kite Festival 2023
…and also this:
Great Chesterford Photohunt
Cambridge Camera Club set up a photohunt for the summer break: “locate each object [illustrated on the map] and take a photo of it, or from it, or near it – any technique, any subject.”
It’s good to have fairly arbitrary limitations placed on you, but nevertheless it was still really quite difficult, and I leant on the ‘near it’ get-out quite a bit…
Dry Ice Experiments
Pholcid with Prey
I shot this wide, but think it’s far more effective cropped in. Gives me the willies.
AtlanticUS
Kaleidosouk
Today I had my most hated of jobs. Sitting next to a video link in a shirt just in case somebody needs something interpreting. Hateful as this is (and - lesson learned frankly, I’m not booking these again) it does provide a context in which you must be creative within limited resources. Namely, your house.
Not a kite eating a squirrel
Saw a kite waiting for a gap in the traffic to grab some roadkill. The light and the drama were just right so I zoomed home, picked up the 100-500, and rushed back. After half an hour of waiting for it to return I came home with this.
Howzeeeee!
Bassingbourn break a run of five losses with a win against Cambridge NCI.
Final Race of the Night
Last night at Royston Rockets. Many thanks to the club for letting us get in their way.
An extra one for fun:
UPDATE: Royston Rockets have used the top image in their website banner.
Wildflowers
Another experiment. Two identical images. Completely desaturated the green in one. Blurred the other. Layered the blurred colour image behind the desaturated one and set the top image to 45% opacity. Theoretically our brains fit wobbly colour to crisp edges (according to watercolour lessons I had years ago) and this is my finding the point where it starts to not.
Extra one. Double exposure with intentional camera movement on one of them:
Three Elements
A quick technical experiment for creating multi-exposures without the background diluting the strength of the single-exposure foreground. Because I have a plan for tomorrow night. We’ll see….
(Buckyballs)
Cube
Under One Flag
Pride 2023 (Gallery)
Impish
Free
Like No-One’s Watching
Sliding Into Your Demonic Messages
Titania Trust
Floss
Angel
Ultraviolet Flower Test
Hmm… Turns out if you filter out all visible and IR light, you don’t have much light left (!) so it’s hard to get a high shutter speed or small aperture. These all employed a UV torch to help that. I was naively hoping for otherwise-invisible patterns to emerge but either I’m capturing the light wrong, or I’m misremembering something from my childhood about bees….
Dahlias
Not sure which of these I prefer…
Doomscroll Alternative
Hill Farm peonies
Order & Chaos
Meaning business
Royston Rockets Compo Night
Excellent shoes
Barely rescued from the gloom
YAAAH!