Motorway piles-up and CSI Miami.

Heres a shot of a motorway- pile-up I took recently, it's shot on a cheap phone camera which explains the quality. Whats the CSI Miami connection you ask? Well it goes like this, while looking at this shot it reminded me of the typical video quality, on CSI Miami recently (I'm not a fan) they took a similar pic to this, run it through their "magic" software and Bingo! they could read the VIN number (vehicle identification number) which is a tiny plate inside the door with stamped type about the same size as this text.

Heres a blow up using some specialist software that actually exists, I don't know about you but I can't even read the number plate, never mind the vin number.

Gower bike ride photos.

Todays the Gower bike ride.

I used to ride this when it first started, back then it was just under 36 miles, now it's around 28 miles I think. I rode it many time, but after they changed the route to the current one it lost something, no longer did you go past Wobbley castle and the Brittania pub, and the really nasty climb just past it.

The lanes past Bury green were a bit dodgy I'll admit. And I got fed up of picking people up off the road at the top of the hill by Shapards shop, the corner seemed to catch people out, but it was a good hard fun ride.

here are a few of the many pics I took today.

Horseflies.

Horseflies and I have an arrangement, they love to bite me, and I hate the little b******s!
There's something in my blood they just love, they will come for miles to bite me. I have been in a field with 3 mates and the horseflies have totally ignored them and I'm covered in the bloody things, my mates are laughing while I'm leaping around screaming "GER OFF!!!!" and flapping my arms like the first man attempting flight. Although it makes no difference they still bite me.
To add insult to injury I'm mildly allergic to the bites, nothing serious I just get a big painfull lump, lovely!!
At this point there should be a pic of a horsefly, but it's hard to photograph and scream while running away so you'll have to look them on Google.

Wedding photographers must be flexible.

Wedding togs need to be flexible in their approach to a wedding. The reason is weddings are not set in stone, due to their very nature things change.

Take yesterday for example, my wedding was in Clydach with the reception in the Gower, the plan was to take all the group shots at the reception (nice views/gardens etc) however just after leaving the church, the brides horse turned up, no warning. I wasn't told it was just brought there, now we have to do some more shots at the church (I was going to take a few outside but not many) Then a few minutes later I'm asked to "stall" the couple for 30 minutes, the wedding cars broken down outside the church, nothing important, only the gearbox lol.

So I ended up shooting ALL the group shots there instead of the lovey Gower location I had planned.

That's what I mean about being flexible, the army have a term for it (it's used in training a lot) it's called dislocation of expectation. You expect one thing to happen and something different happens, the idea is to see how well you cope with those changes.

Auto setting??

I was out shooting a few days a go, and when walking back I got to thinking about what modes I'd shot in. During the few hours walk I'd used Program, Aperture priority, Shutter priority, and full Manual.

Couriously I'd not touched the full auto mode or any of the so called "scene" modes (I was shooting on a Canon) Which was interesting, why? because the Canon has a landscape mode, and I'd been shooting mostly landscape, now I can't remember ever using this or indeed any of the scene modes (portrait landscape macro night and what I assume is flash off mode?) I suppose I like to have control over what the camera does.

Maybe I'll try a few when I have time and post my results.

On to todays images, these were taken on my walk, they are all taken in the area around Dinas rock (near Glyn Neath) although the falls is a good walk from there. Wayne

You know it's going to be one of those wedding's when......

You know it's going to be one of those weddings when the groom gets his collar felt by the old bill right before the service (see pic)

Fortunately in this case he wasn't carted off to the nick because this was just a posed fun pic, and Simon (the groom) is a very nice honest bloke. The officer was in the venue on other business and obligingly posed for a pic when asked.

Here's a shot of his lovely wife Adele for you as well.

Wayne

Tinted windows.

It seems the police in Wales are having a major anti-crime initiative! Yes they are are stopping those terribly vicious criminals who have...... tinted windows on their cars!.
It's good to know that with knife and gun crime on the increase, youngsters arming themselves for their own protections, gang culture a major problem, and burglaries rising fast, that the police are on the ball and stopping motorists, and actually measuring the tint on the windows.
Yes they have a special meter.... pity it doesn't detect drugs or knives, that would actually be useful, but heaven help any hardened "tinter" they catch, with this mentality they will probably get life on Devils Island. And if they have no M.O.T as well I'm afraid it's the black cap and " you'll be taken to a place of execution, where you'll be hung by the neck until dead" etc etc.
Will the last person left in this stupid country please turn out the lights on the way out.