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Oh! I thought it was the low winter sun. Still, both good ideas.
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Might take my waterproof camera into town this evening, as I might have a quick play under a street lamp with rain on my ride home (to compensate for the inevitable drenching, if the forecast is right).
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Illuminating though.
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More interesting, maybe, but annoyed I didn't get it lined up properly vertically - the stem should have been in between the two lights. Could also have got my shadow a bit further back to make it separate from the handlebar shadow.
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I missed the aurora in the early hours of yesterday morning. Having driven to Stanstead airport and back on Tuesday evening in pouring rain I needed some sleep, the weather forecast remained terrible and the aurora stats weren't that brilliant when I got home so I went to bed. I was gutted when I woke to see there'd been a major alert and the weather had unexpectedly cleared. Last night was cloudy again and the stats weren't as high as I hoped so I didn't bother going out but did get my camera set up ready with the intention of putting it into the garden and leaving it run on the intervalometer if I woke in the night and things looked promising. I did this at around 4.00am and around 15 minutes in (about 10 seconds on the video) the camera picked up some pink that lasted around 20 minutes that I've turned into a timelapse. The cloud never really cleared much and there was a lot of light pollution from a nearby street light and garage spotlights and the foreground isn't inspiring but at least I got something for the effort.
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A couple from yesterday's walk. I rather liked the weirdness of the second one.
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Yes, better - you've got the leaves right - good work.
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Symphonic reflections
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After Storm Claudia's deluge in these parts I thought yesterday might be a good day to totally ignore the advice of TLC and go chasing waterfalls on the Four Waterfalls walk. The water levels were lower than I'd expected, talking to the cafe owner near the car park (superb homemade sausage rolls if anyone visits!) the flow picks up and drops off quite quickly and on Saturday the roar of the nearest of the falls, Sgwd Clun-Gwyn which is around 1km away, was deafening. We were a bit short of time so only visited the first and fourth falls (Sgwd Clun-Gwyn and Sgwd yr Eira). The other two (Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwyn and Sgwd y Pannwr) are my favourites but a bit further off the main path and Sgwd Isaf Clun-Gwyn is quite tricky to reach. I grabbed a mix of long exposure and fast shutter speeds for a mixture of looks.
Top to bottom:
Sgwd Clun-Gwyn 14mm f/22 1.3" ISO 100
Sgwd Clun-Gwyn 14mm f/4 1/500" ISO 250
Sgwd yr Eira 23mm f/16 2.5" ISO 200 (with ND filter)
Sgwd yr Eira 18mm f/3.5 1/500" ISO 1250
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Sgwd Clun-Gwyn 14mm f/22 1.3" ISO 100
Sgwd Clun-Gwyn 14mm f/4 1/500" ISO 250
Sgwd yr Eira 23mm f/16 2.5" ISO 200 (with ND filter)
Sgwd yr Eira 18mm f/3.5 1/500" ISO 1250
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Also got this one when testing my settings that I'd intended to delete but quite like the ghost effect of the walkers going along the path that takes you behind the fall. You can see in the photos above people making their way behind but not the ones who were actually behind it, I've never done it and was tempted yesterday but don't trust the grip on my boots and didn't want to get my gear wet.
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Yeah, no filter for the lens I used in the first one, I should probably have fitted the 18-55mm to start with as I ended up cropping the top 2 anyway. Lots of spray on 4 which didn't help. Unfortunately it was also a couple of weeks too late to get any autumnal colour so it's left the scene a bit drab.
