Hindu festival part 3

 

 The next batch of images from the Hindu festival.  Only one more batch to go.

 

 

Todays black and white portrait.

 Another given the black and white treatment

Hindu festival part 2

 The second batch from Saturdays Hindu festival.

Black and white portrait

 

 A black and white shot from the Hindu festival/

 

Hindu festival part 1

 

 The first batch from the Hindu festival.

 

 

Hindu festival 2023 (few tasters)

 

 This was more an accident than planned but I got some pics anyway.  Heres a few as a taster till I get them all edited.

 Full frame camera all shot on a Sigma 24-105 art lens.

 

 

Food photo

 Just the one picture I'm afraid.

Some more aviation news

 

 It's been an interesting week for general aviation. Theres been a lot of accidents involving helicopters, one is missing in the sea with four crew also missing, and a big increase in numbers of minor accidents, including one that hit an ambulance.

 Fire fighting aircraft are always at high risk and this week one fire fighting aircraft and a helicopter have crashed, sadly the crew of the aircraft lost their lives in the accident.

 A glider pilot had a lucky escape after feeling vibrations, he landed, an inspection showed cracks in the gliders tail.

 A commercial passenger flight suffered serious damage after running into a hail storm, with the windows cracked, the radome smashed and wing and tail leading edges badly damaged.

A few B+W portraits

 

 Got these the other day, shot on a Sigma 105mm at 2.8 on a crop sensor camera (think a 750d?)  anyway I liked them.

 

 

Back is bad today.

 

 I've suffered with back problems from many years, today it's playing up.  Mind I was carrying my camera back a lot on tuesday , and yesterday I had to move my old cooker and a huge sofa to the lawn, as well as a dressing table, a mattress and a huge tv corner unit I was binning (having a bit sort out and tidy up) So a bad back isn't a supprise really.

Confetti shot

 Took this on the weekend, believe me there is really a bride and groom in there somewhere.  All the years Ive done photography (a long time) I've never seen anything even close to this much confetti.  Mind I thought it was brilliant!

Picture from yesterday

 Got this yesterday.  I liked it.

Moody black and white portrait

 A dark  moody self portrait to match my mood today.  Canon 750d  Sigma 18-35mm art lens at F1.8

 

Well done Met Office

 

 I'm so glad the Met Office warned us of the terrible heatwave, I'm covered in factor 50 and wearing 3 sunhats... trouble is I'm also wearing a jumper and a waterproof jacket.  You see as usual the "forecast" is a joking one and 100% wrong as usual!.

 Yes they got the heatwave right for Europe, sadly the Met Office is British and from their website " The Met Office is the UK’s national weather service. It provides weather and climate-related services to the Armed Forces, government departments, the public, civil aviation, shipping, industry, agriculture and commerce."  Note the words UK there, not Europe, Not Austraila, the bloody UK.

 The Met office was set up in 1854 by Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy, since then is been used for forecasting the weather in one form or another.  The first public forecast was in 1861.

 Churchhill got a reliable forecast for D-day on the 6th June 1944, yet today nearly 80 years laterwith computers, and satellites the "foorecast" is about as much use as a chocolate tea pot.

So well done Met Office, your wrong as usual.. Next time I want to know theactual  weather I'll call the dog in and see if he's wet or dry.  lets face it guessing would be right 50% of the time.

More Blaenavon car show images

 

 A few more from Blaenavon car show at the Blaenavon railway, so a bit of mix maybe of images.  This is the last of last weekend shots.