Ramsey 1940s Weekend

Last weekend I visited the 1940s Weekend held at RAF Upwood on the outskirts of Ramsey. The event was bigger than last year with more reenactors and a much bigger airshow. Sadly, the extra people meant that the various living history groups were rather tightly grouped together, making it much harder to get a neutral backgrounds.

'Past Its Best'

As mentioned in my last posting, the recent Abbey-Horizons outing had a panel theme of 'past its best'. Here are my 5 images. With more time I could have replaced Image 3 with something that fitted a little more closely to the others, but I was happy just to get 5 on-topic images. The last two are my favourites of the set.

Evening Visit to the Botanical Gardens

Last Wednesday saw another photography evening for the Abbey-Horizons group. This time we chose to go to a late night opening of the Botanical Gardens. The weather wasn't really on our side. It was decidedly dull and grey, and no sooner had I arrived than it started to rain. We all sought shelter in the glasshouses, and I then spent most of the evening in just one part of the first one, concentrating of macro shots. Towards closing time, the sun broke through the clouds, so I ventured outside (although still not far).

There was a loose panel theme of 'past its best' that I managed to find 5 images for, to varying degrees of success. However, as usual, I will save those until after the next Abbey-Horizons meeting. In the meantime here are a few of the off-topic shots I took.

Boats at Wells-Next-The-Sea

A few images from a recent day out at Wells-Next-The-Sea. The tide was out most of the time I was there, allowing me to get close to the various boats in the estuary.

Abbey-Horizons Portfolio

Tonight was the monthly meeting of the Abbey-Horizons group. We looked at the images from our recent outing in Cambridge. The challenge had been to present a panel of 5 images taken along the river. The light that night had been lovely and there were some fanatastic images on display from all who attended.

The subject of my panel was recessional pattern pictures. I have presented the 5 images in order of personal preference. As is often the case with these panels, it is the 5th image that is the problem. I don't think it really works with the others. I just needed a little more time on the night to find something better. Still, in a couple of weeks I get to try again with the next outing.

Elephant Parade - Revisited

One of the (several) reasons that I have been a bit quiet on the blog front recently is that I have been working on the images from my Elephant Parade project. The parade itself finished at the end of June. I didn't manage to photograph all of the 258 elephants, but I did shoot a lot of them. After an extensive reviewing and selecting phase, I am left with over 250 images to put through some post production. The eventual aim is to make a photo book out of them. It might take a while though.

Another Abbey-Horizons Photo Challenge

A few weeks ago (yes it's been that long since I last posted) I was out for an evening's photography in Cambridge with others of the Abbey-Horizons group (the photo group that sounds like a savings account). It was one of our regular summer photo assignment challenges. This time the brief was fairly open. A panel of 5 images on a theme shot in the vicinity of the river.

Despite the open theme it was still hard coming up with 5 images that worked together. I worked on several ideas, to varying degrees of success. I will save what (vaguely) worked, until after the next Abbey meeting. But here is one that didn't.

The idea was signs along the river. It was one of my stronger ideas, but I only managed 3 images that worked.