Looking westwards by judithg

Looking westwards

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
lovely sunset shot!
January 4th, 2013  
Beautiful
January 4th, 2013  
Lovely, Judith! The colors in the sky are amazing!
January 4th, 2013  
gorgeous...fab colours..x
January 4th, 2013  
Lovely shot Judith


January 4th, 2013  
Oh dear you on a rant? Hope this lovely sunset cheered you up!
January 4th, 2013  
Beautiful!
January 4th, 2013  
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!
January 4th, 2013  
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!
January 4th, 2013  
Beautiful shot Judith!
January 4th, 2013  
Lovely shot.
January 4th, 2013  
@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....
January 4th, 2013  
@busylady Oooh that sounds exciting!
January 4th, 2013  
Lyn
I love your philosophy expressed here, that just getting the camera out at a different time can make such a difference! Lovely shot!
January 4th, 2013  
happy accidents do occur..This silhouette is super against teh evening glow
January 4th, 2013  
Amazing colours with the dark...... love it.
January 4th, 2013  
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.
January 4th, 2013  
Beautiful.
January 4th, 2013  
i like your sky judith , the silhouette shows it off lovely
January 4th, 2013  
I like the soft focus on the silhouettes and the sky is fabulous. Good luck to Adam. Painkillers? Shoulder still? Back?
January 4th, 2013  
awesome
January 4th, 2013  
@jgpittenger Adam's head & temperature!
January 4th, 2013  
@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)
January 4th, 2013  
Great capture and one hell of a write up .... ;')
January 4th, 2013  
@jasonfury And I've started putting 2012 in a book and I HATE the long write ups - they don't fit. I may have to edit this one....
January 4th, 2013  
its a great creative shot
January 4th, 2013  
nice sunset shot - poor Adam, hope he recovers quickly - like your narrative!
January 4th, 2013  
@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(
January 4th, 2013  
beautiful silhouette Judith, and hooray for painkillers, I am of to pop two now.
January 4th, 2013  
Judith, it looks even more beautiful if you view large against the black background!
January 4th, 2013  
oh thats a fav
January 4th, 2013  
This is stunning!
January 5th, 2013  
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.
January 5th, 2013  
This is beautiful. I love the silhouettes.
January 5th, 2013  
you rocked this one girl.
January 5th, 2013  
Looks great though
January 5th, 2013  
What a beautiful shot - I absolutely adore the colours of the sky! Hope Adam gets well very fast!
January 5th, 2013  
Wonderful colours and really love the silhouette. Gorgeous work! Hope Adam feels better soon. :)
January 5th, 2013  
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!
January 5th, 2013  
Wonderful silhouette. Gorgeous sky xx
January 6th, 2013  
Oh love it - brill interesting silhouette and gorgeous backdrop.
January 6th, 2013  
Dramatic and unusual sunset shot!
January 6th, 2013  
beautiful sunset! A fav!!
January 6th, 2013  
fave
January 8th, 2013  
Fav. Looks like it could be Africa
January 11th, 2013  
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