Passing the Perfect Location

On my daily cycle to the train station I pass a lot of rather mundane locations, all of which are rather uninspiring, however earlier in the week I decided to walk for various reasons. This is a walk I've taken many times, and usually end up going along the same route on my long runs too. Again it's a rather mundane route for the best part; there's a couple of pubs, a university building, lots of roads and a dingy looking canal.

Turns out I've been walking past the perfect location for a while without even realising it.

f11, 1/50, ISO 1600

Holiday

I recently went on a holiday to see a friend down on the south east coast. I took my bike expecting to get a lot of free time to myself and figured I could visit some of the towns and cities around. This decision determined what camera I would take away with me; the D3 being far too big without adding lenses in the equation and the X100 fitting perfectly in my saddle bag made it a no brainer. Naturally I feared that I'd be limited with a 35mm equivalent lens, even though I now use mostly primes on my D3 I still have some flexibility.

My fear, however, was unfounded. The X100 has fast become my favourite camera due to it's flexibility, it might not have an array of lenses but it is small enough to take anywhere.

f4, 1/900, ISO 200

Foggy photos (part 1)

I've had an idea for quite some time to get a very specific shot in the pre-sunrise fog, however predicting fog is incredibly difficult at the best of times, but getting it thick enough to actually impact a photo is where I've struggled in the past.

Sunrise on the Park

Bit late adding this one!

I didn't go out on Thursday night (a rarity for me) and managed to wake at a reasonable time on the Friday morning. I'm lucky enough to live less than 5 minutes from a park, so I figured I'd take a walk with my camera and see what I could get.

The first thing that I noticed was how thick the fog was, unfortunately though the light was flat and the photos were a bit bland. After wandering for a good 30 minutes waiting for some good light I'd finally resigned myself to the fact that it wasn't going to happen and that I might as well take photos of something else. So I switched to my 70-200, packed up my tripod and went to see what I could get.

f2.8 1/60