Unusually for me completely SOOC but not SOOEye. My zoom lens seems to struggle a bit with exposure under more tricky lighting conditions and this is underexposed. Still - it saved me deliberately setting the camera to do the same thing. I took Rachel over to see friends in the nearby village of Oakington this afternoon (she's back off to Birmingham on Sunday :0( ) so I stuck Monty in the back of the car and we had a later walk than usual. It reminded me that when struggling for inspiration going out at a different time of day often does the trick. I did a circular route starting with attractive but muddy fields and returning along the 'Misguided Busway' which runs from Huntingdon to Cambridge and cost £181million. It's really called the 'Guided Busway" and involves miles of concrete tracks and special buses with extra wheels that pop out perpendicular to the bus and run along the tracks. The driver just accelerates, no steering, until he gets to Cambridge when he comes off the tracks and grinds to a halt in the city traffic. There are very few stops in the city so it's of little use to people who live there (probably 95% of commuter journeys come into the city rather than out) which wouldn't matter if they hadn't cut back on the local overcrowded buses. It seems to run empty during most of the day and only runs between 7am and 7pm which is too limited for a lot of commuters. And the A14 it was meant to relieve is still overcrowded. So most people think reopening the railway line along which it was built would have been a much better option but it's too late now. In other news Adam has come down ill just in time for next week's exams and hockey tournament - aarghhh - hoping paracetomol will do the trick.
Three good things:
1. Our 'living next door' cat has just come in and given Monty what for for barking at her!
2. A bit of sunshine today.
3. Painkillers
Love the dark seed heads against the beautiful sunset, I think you've got some water there too reflecting the gold, super shot. We had a couple of hours intermittent sunshine here which was lovely!
It's a lovely shot. I've tried this kind of shot before but I'm never sure whether it's better to get the foreground in or out of focus. Both look wrong somehow. I have no camera today as Peter has taken it down to London to view some tunnels! He says he has some amazing shots for me so watch this space tomorrow!
@fueast Oh I haven't really got going on the subject. The best thing about it is the cycle lane next to it. And it's quiet which is maybe why people manage to get run over by it....
I got a new zoom lens for Xmas and have no idea what to do with it. Keep going back to my trusty P&S which makes me feel like a loser but WTH... @june I hope you don't mean the cyclists being hit by that bus, lol.
@meisen325 Oooh loads - brings a whole new dimension. Apart from getting close to things that are a long way away you cen get close to things that are already close and blur out the background to a magnificent degree or you can do my all time favourite - take a shot that you could take with a normal lens if you could be bothered to walk nearer only wave the lens around a bit because it's a long lens and get it out of focus :0)
@sparkle Very bad timing - the only practice day for the national indoor finals next week, county hockey on Sunday and mocks starting on Monday. English Lit first and he was saving that for the weekend because it's always a really tough exam... :0(
This is simply stunning, Judith. I love the starkness of the silhouettes against the gorgeous winter sky colors.
I share your distain for misplaced transit funding. The city gov't here is talking about spending many millions on a trolley line that runs for just over a mile, takes up much needed street lanes, and really serves no apparent purpose. I don't get it.
Do hope that Adam makes a quick recovery with the National tournament coming up...and, of course, exams.
A change of time or scenery is nice! This came out lovely! I hate government things like this guided railway that just end up being big fat money and space wasters. Ugh!
@june I hope you don't mean the cyclists being hit by that bus, lol.
I share your distain for misplaced transit funding. The city gov't here is talking about spending many millions on a trolley line that runs for just over a mile, takes up much needed street lanes, and really serves no apparent purpose. I don't get it.
Do hope that Adam makes a quick recovery with the National tournament coming up...and, of course, exams.