I’m waiting to invest in a 2000mm telescope that has a Nikon camera mount, then i’ll be able to take some more detailed shots and of other astronomical objects.
Above was taken just before the “blue moon” eclipse on the 31st Dec. Annoyingly and upsettingly a cloud covered the moon after this and blocked my view of the moon for the rest of the night
This was taken on the night of the 1st Jan I believe, the moon was really low in the sky making it look bloodshot.
I’ll return to my usual petrol head techie posts soon – honest
I’ve heard from a few of my friends/readers in Canada that they’ve all been finding the UK’s total inability to cope with the recent “snow storms” absolutely hilarious, of course, looking beyond the mockery at our expense, thanks to the UK mainstream media, calling the recent snow a “storm”.
A lot of people have been enjoying the snow, and its the first time in many years that we may actually stand a chance of celebrating a “White Christmas” in the UK… although currently, its looking like the weather in yee old Blighty will return to its normal programming, ie, rain, and we’ll all enjoy a nice gray and slushy Christmas. It remains to be seen.
Personally I’ve not enjoyed the snow, beyond my initial school boy excitement, which lasted a whole 5 minutes, a long time considering. The snow “storm” has caused havoc on the roads, journeys that normally take 15 minutes have taken near on 4 hours recently. Apparently the warnings that the UK MET office had been issuing for weeks never reached the highways agency, and yet again they were “caught unaware”… as my girlfriend keeps asking, upon observing the competition ice rink style road conditions, “so why exactly do we bother paying taxes?”.
Humbug I say!
Ah well, on the bright side the snow did give me something to shoot.
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Recently, I’ve been playing with my camera more, making an effort to get back into the swing of “shooting” things and events. I was out the other night, “shooting the moon”, and out once again tonight.
It took me a little while to realize that the best way to keep the camera stable was to lay down on the driveway! My tripod won’t support the weight of the 80-200mm lens.
You’ve gotta love the English countryside  Went for a 3 hour walk today, ended up somewhere in Harpenden. I forgot just how much woodland there was within such close proximity to where I live.
Here are some of the photos I took from the last Rathayatra in the UK for 2007. Some of the higher vantage photos were achieved by climbing up onto a big green shipping container – I did get some strange looks while I scaled the container, but hey, winners do, loosers wish they had done
It was a really good day, could have been sunnier, but the atmosphere in the hall afterwards made it well worthwhile. As always The PA Hire Company provided the sound and light systems.
