Constellation big band part two

 

 Heres the rest of the big band pics.

 

Found load of old camera filters

  This evening I went looking for some books to read in the spare room, as well as the books I was looking for a found a tons of camera filters (along with a few film cameras and lens) This isn't my main "stash" of film stuff, thats all in a big metal safe thingy, no idea why it's worth bugger all these days but I can't be arsed to dig it out.

 The filters, four boxes of then cover a huge range of stuff from colour correction, black and white to some special effects, now admittedly most of what they do you can now do in photoshop, but it's nice to find them.  Mind theres a holdall full of filters there as well (no I'm being serious here) a full holdall, just about every graduated filter made and a ton of other stuff.   

 Might have a play with some of it when I get time.

Bit of a trip down memory lane today. constelation big band

 

  My father was a musician, he played drums (as did I for a while, although nowhere near as good) during the 1970's he played with the big band Constellation based in Swansea.  I found out yesterday they are still going, 49 years after they started.  We took my mother down to the National Botanical Gardens of Wales where they were playing.

 Trip down memory lane, watching a big "glen miller" type band my dad played in.  Even better two of the original band were still going and we were lucky to have a nice chat with them.

 It was weird, the music and seeing them took my mother and I back to the 1970s for a few hours, there were a few tears and a lot of laughs.  I'm so glad I stumbled across an advert for them playing there yesterday.

 A few pics. All shot on the old camera, mosting at high iso.

Garden birds affected by recent storms

 

 I have a few bird feeders in my garden, the recent storms Franklin and the previous ones have played havoc with the numbers. I estimate about 60% of birds maybe more are missing now. I don't know if they've been blown to a new location or killed (I hope the former) but if thats across the whole of Wales then a huge number of wild birds are affected.

 Fingers crossed they'll turn up over time.

Poltergeist olds tricks

 My poltergeist is up to his old tricks again, a few days ago a pouch of camera memory cards vanished from my camera bag.  

I'l explain, my cameras use a few different types of memory card, to make life easier I have different pouches for each, one pouch holds two high capacity cards, another holds three, the third holds a few different cards.  Anyway one pouch with the two cards vanished.  Now these pouches are not loose in my bag, their inside a pocket with a flap so they cant just fall out, not possible, anyway they were gone.

 Now it's not the end of the world because I have the other cards anyway, and I do sometimes take those cards out to use in another camera bag with a different camera if I'm traveling light for a wander, so I figured they were in the other bag. Anyway sorting the bag last weekend (after the food pics) I checked the other bag and they were not there either.

 Bummer, I've lost them I figured, so sorting the bag ready for the next shoot I find the cards... in the pocket where they were supposed to be all along.  Now I'm confused!.. Theres no way I could have missed a pouch the size of a box of Swan matches in a small pocket thet the three pouches fill tightly, I'd emptied the bag totally to take out the stuff I didn't need, and I'd double checked the pocket looking for the cards first time around as well, taking out the other two pouches.

 Now nobody else goes in my bag, and taking them out and then putting them back a few days later makes no sense, pinching them I could understand, but borrowing them?  No I'm not buying that, beside nobody really has access to my bag in the first place.  My family don't have anything that uses the cards that went missing either, and if they'd taken a camera they'd be a card in it so they wouldn't need another.  Besides nobody else knows where I keep the cards... well you do now, but you didn't before...

Bigfoot videos... WTF?

 

 The other day I watched a bigfoot documentary, not one of these "finding bigfoot" shit programs, a proper documentaries with actual scientists.  They showed all the best bigfoot videos.... and thats where the problem is.

 You see many of these videos were recent, but my God the quality!  I honestly would have trouble finding a camera that bad, no, seriously!  Bad doesn't come close.  Think 1970's cheap video camera and your getting close. I'd have to search old second hand shops just to find one that old.

 The trouble is we live in 2022, even a cheap phone has a camera better than a 1970's bloody TV camera now. How on Gods earth can you get such bad footage from gear made in say the last 10 years.  This makes me wonder.

Coloured lights out of focus.

 

 Last week I was playing around taking pictures of coloured disco lights, mostly out of focus for effect.  This is what I came up with.