Friday 26 April 2013

London Zoo

In preparation for a trip I am making in a few weeks time, I recently bought a 40-150mm lens for my Olympus Pen.  Equivalent to 80-300mm on an SLR, but a fraction of the size and weight, it will be handy on my travels.  I have had little opportunity to try it out since I got it.  So with this in mind, and armed with a two for one voucher, a friend and I headed to London Zoo on Saturday.

It was an enjoyable day out, but photographically very challenging.  A combination of the tricky lighting  conditions (bright contrasty sunshine outside, mixed artificial light inside), glass and wire meant I didn't get many shots I liked.  Not as thorough a test of the new lens as I was hoping.


Friday 19 April 2013

Points Of View - Cambridge

Last Saturday was the Cambridge Camera Club's annual 'Points of View' competition.  Five hours to photograph 5 subjects within a set area.  This year it was in the very centre of Cambridge.  The subjects were 'tourist Cambridge', 'corners', 'mood or atmosphere', 'retail therapy' and 'metal'.  As usual, I obsessed about a couple of the topics and didn't spend enough time on the others.

In the end, I did manage to get one half decent image for each subject, before it started raining.  I may post those after the competition has been judged.  In the meantime, here are some of the rejects.  Not all of which are on topic.





Friday 5 April 2013

Winter walking in British Summer Time

Over Easter I spent the days either side of the clocks going forward walking in the Lakes with Vic.  The Lakeland Fells were still covered from the recent heavy snows, with drifts of a metre in places.  Above 5-600m the temperature hadn't reached above freezing since the snow had fallen, so it was largely unconsolidated powder.  It made for some tough walking but beautiful scenery.