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.

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.

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.