This is a sunset over the Bay of Angels in Nice. The airport is off to the left as you look at the photograph, and I’ve been told the cloud looks a bit like a UFO. I didn’t really notice that at the time.
I’m planning the purchase of a new camera bag and a new tripod. I saw a tripod I liked last week and I quite fancy it. It’s not for my heavy lenses – I am using the zooms less and less anyway – but for the macro lens in particular, the 50mm to play with DOF and stuff. The camera bag is an effort to deal with something which I learned last week which is that I hate lugging loads of camera equipment around. Really hate it and what’s more I don’t especially need to lug it all around. I figured this out last week when I realised I only used 2 of the 5 lenses I brought with me and never took out the flash at all. I did, however, use the filters, quite a lot.
But basically I am a wimp and find the lugging of the gear around rather too much.
Now for a couple of other vaguely photography related matters.
Someone passed this link from the Daily Mail to me about a South Africa based photographer who went to rather great lengths to get some – admittedly outstanding – wildlife photographs.
Having spent about 30 seconds considering it, I have decided that no photograph I could ever take is worth contracting malaria for.
Passing the Ball by Ronan Palliser
Big Shots for 25 February via Boston.com. The first photograph, the surf shot is one of the best I have ever seen. The beauty is I was watching Mavericks online via their ustream feed and it was brilliant but the screen was just too small.
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