Bubbles

 Took this a few days ago.

Two more Swansea black and white shots.

 

 Another two shots from my Swansea vist a few days ago.

 

 

Whats your angle?

 

 Whats your angle?  No I'm not talking  Pythagorean theorem, I'm talking photography.

 If you go to places like the grand canyon or Sailsbury cathedral you'll find a crowd of people in one place, often queing to take the same photograph.  Many years back Kodak actually supplied a Kodak photopoint sign (free advertising) which tourist hotspots bunged at a good viewing spot.  Indeed some places actually had a path to a small circle viewing spot (with the Kodak sign of course).

 So what I'm getting at is while it's fine to take the same picture as 23 million other people, walk around your subject, look at it from higher or lower. Often theres a better shot.... and you'll be the ONE with it.  Look up and look down, who knows what you will see.

 Here I've taken a few local shots to kind of show you what I mean, you dont have to take pictures at eye level.  All shot on the TZ80 compact.

Swansea castle

 

 Swansea castle. Founded in 1107 and first attacked in 1116 and totally ruined by Swansea council ever since.  Note the horrible tower block behind and the even worse chrome 12th centure benches and recycling bin in front.  Yeah, way to go.  Bet Windor castle never looks like this.

  Indeed it was such a mess yesterday I decided to give it the heavy handed HDR treatment, lets face it I cant make it look much worse.

 

Bloody poltergeist!

 

 My bloody poltergeist has started playing silly buggers again!  

The day before yesterday I was cleaning and sorting out camera gear ready for  a shoot on the weekend.  While doing that I swopped my 6d2 from one bag to a slightly bigger bag (new bag) to make room for a flash.  Now this isn't the camera I'll use on the weekend, it's a wander about camera.  It has three lens and a flash in the bag, it did have two lens and no flash thats why it got a bigger bag.

 Anyway also in the bag were a couple of filters that came with a bag I bought a few months back that fit one of the lens in the bag and a set of neutral density filters I bought for the same lens.  Well the neutral density filters are still there but the other three are missing!

 Now they are only used with the 24-85mm lens in this bag so they stay with this camera and lens.  I havent used any of them recently so they "should" be there. But they are not.  Nor can I find them in any of my other bags.

 Not only has this happened but my youngest son dropped an earbud earphone thingy in his bed (he listens to music in bed) but now he cant find it.  He's pulled the bed apart and searched the floor. No earbud. Yesterday he lost the remaining one downstairs.  Later he goes up to his room and finds both on his desk.  WTF!

 Now I havent played about with his stuff, and I honestly cant see him taking a few filters out of one of my camera bags and hoping I'd notice for a joke.  First off he's not a joker like that, and secondly it would have been a lucky guess to know what to take that I'd be looking for, when theres a lot of other stuff I use more.

 Theres nobody else here to do it.

I've mentioned before the weird stuff that happenes in my house.  Now it's not totally poltergeist type activity but it's close enough.   It's not the end of the world, it's just a bloody PITA.  I was fancying a few soft focus portraits on the weekend, so I've dug out another soft focus filter, it's just not the one I wanted to use.

Two random black and white shots

 

 A couple of randon black and white shots.

 

 

Rain on a wire, and leaves

 Just a couple I took yesterday while going through my cameras and lens cleaning and sorting stuff.  Both shot on a Canon 7d with a Sigma 18-250mm lens at some fairly high iso, around 2500 ish I think, so not great.