I've taken this photo on three separate occasions so far. I think I like the light on this one the best.
I enjoy the top-down shots that are possible with a drone; to me, they are a style that is almost uniquely limited to aerial photography, especially at this scale - flatlay images of the real world!
Late posting this one, and although I don't love it, it's the best of the bunch.
A backup photo for you today, shot Saturday.
The only photography I did today was boring technical stuff for work!
This one's my submission for this week's 52Frames "Levitate" challenge. In some ways, it's a re-do of a photo I shot back in 2011, although I've changed a few things, including allowing the light from the bulb to illuminate the background directly rather than hitting it with an external flash, and this time, I eliminated most of the external reflections on the glass envelope.
It's interesting to see that the LED has now become the standard light emitter rather than the incandescent lamp I used back then - I'm not sure LED bulbs were even available at that point, or if they were, they were very expensive.
I soldered a stiff copper wire to the base of the bulb, and a thin wire to the centre contact. These wires hold the lamp up, and pass neatly through a hole in the background, hidden by the base of the bulb, where they are connected to a power source.
Needless to say, this isn't the safest use of electricity, so I don't recommend repeating this unless you know what you're doing, and are comfortable working around live electrical equipment!
I had a pretty lazy day today, recovering from the week. The weather was lovely, and I went out for a rather pleasant drive in the late afternoon / early evening.
I ended up in Queen's Park, Loughborough, where I shot this and a few others, and where I narrowly escaped being locked in by the warden!
I found two gates were locked up, and the warden was just closing the third when I got to it. I didn't realise that they closed the park at all as a routine thing. There were still quite a few other people in there when I left, so I clearly wasn't the only one who was going to be caught out.
I'm trying to make the most of my time with Holly and Pepper, and get some decent photos with them!
I liked the way the dying light was catching these leaves.
This one's a backup photo from last night. I ended up working late tonight.
New (2nd hand) lens day! Unexpectedly, times two.
I've been looking at replacing my ancient EF 35mm f/2 with the newer ultrasonic focusing, image stabilised version for a while, and one came up used locally, so I went to pick it up.
While I was there, I spotted a Samyang AF 14mm f/2.8 EF ultrawide in the cabinet, and bought that too. It's quite a fun lens, and I'm hoping it might be good for some big night skies, particularly if we get Aurora again soon.
A backup photo today, shot last night.
It's been another mad day today!
