Skyride

Regular readers of this blog will know I can't resist photographing a funfair.  So, in the 'tween days of Christmas I found some time to go the North-pole fair in Cambridge.  Most of the rides didn't interest me, as I had shot them several times before.  But the big tall spinning thing; whose name I didn't determine, but, for the purposes of titling, I have called the Skyride; was new to me.  I wasn't there on a busy night, so, sadly, the ride only ran a couple of times during the best of the blue hour.  I played around with exposure length, from giving the riders some definition, to pure colour trails and ended up with a lot of shots to sort through from only a few rides.

 

Merry Christmas

What with one thing and another, I have had little time for photography recently.  I did manage a little Christmas inspired tabletop photography last night.  Of the few things I tried this image was the most successful.

Red Kites

Some more images taken the day I visited Hamerton Zoo.  As well as the resident birds, the local Red Kites put on a good show for me.  It was a fairly overcast day, but there were a couple of brief breaks in the cloud that gave the birds some lovely light.

 

Birds at Hamerton Zoo

On a recent day off, I visited Hamerton Zoo.  It wasn't the warmest of days, so most of the mammals stayed inside, out of view.  Fortunately, there were a number of bird species to concentrate on.