I require

This is the night sky in Inchydoney, taken from the ground. It’s entirely possible 30 seconds is too long for these sort of things, plus the timer is in the car so whereas 120 [...]]]>

I require

• tripod
• another clear night tomorrow night and
• anyone got a charger for the batteries out of a 40D? I sort of forgot mine.

This is the night sky in Inchydoney, taken from the ground. It’s entirely possible 30 seconds is too long for these sort of things, plus the timer is in the car so whereas 120 seconds wouldn’t have been too long, the car was locked and my keys were too long a walk away. Also, there’s a lot of ambient light. I will try again tomorrow  evening from down on the beach if my light tripod is heavy enough.

I was safely sitting in my hotel room making a lace skirt when someone voiced some dissatisfaction about cloud cover and a beautiful moon rise. 5 minutes later there was this.

and this

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This creativity is unleashed on the strength of one chocolate and freezing cold feet. It may not quite yet be flipflop weather.

While I was at the beach this evening, with the help of a bunch of filters, I used the sun to light paint.

I discovered it was impossible to sign my name in under 1.3 seconds by waving a camera around. Efforts to sign my initial resulted in weird looking scribbles. One eventually looked like a [...]]]>

While I was at the beach this evening, with the help of a bunch of filters, I used the sun to light paint.

I discovered it was impossible to sign my name in under 1.3 seconds by waving a camera around. Efforts to sign my initial resulted in weird looking scribbles. One eventually looked like a musical note.

This one looked like I had channeled Newgrange or something. It was one of the few that was inside the frame of the photograph. Oh I have a bunch that might have been worth something if I hadn’t gone outside the box. When you can’t see the box, it’s pretty hard not to go outside it.

Later edit:

I had a go at re-extracting this from the RAW and am not quite that happy with it any more. It’s weird the way your opinion of a shot changes over the course of a day sometimes.