American tourists…

While I was recceing possible photography locations earlier during the day, I discovered there were places where water broke quite heavily against the rocks near the sea wall to the port end of the Bay of Angels in Nice, so when the sun came out this evening, I decided to go in search of some long exposures. It was an informative experience.

For one thing, I learned that some people are just not afraid of being swept away off rocks. You’ll see about 5 of them in the photograph above – it was, I think, a 30 second exposure, hence their ghostly aspect.

The second thing is I suck at sunsets.

The best fun I had came later, after dark. I’m starting to think I’m sometimes happier shooting in the near dark than in the light.

I’ve plans for some things like this in Dublin.

Yesterday I came across a book in FNAC for 52 weekend projects or some such. The book was originally published in America so I was reluctant enough to purchase it in French since it’s probably on amazon for half the price and in English. Not that I’m afraid of French, oh no. But it had some nice lightpainting stuff and how to build lightboxes. I’m going to look into it.

Couple of links today.

1) John Williams and the Hill of Tara.

2) Galloping Green – Spring.

3) Dannie O’Brien – Knot

Okay. I’m off to amazon to see about the cost of a 765B tripod in Amazon. If it’s more than 89E, then I’m going to buy one in FNAC. Maybe.