Downward Plummet
There’s nothing quite so exhilarating as careering down a hill on a bike…
The village where I live is one long hill. The cyclists love haring down the main road terrorising the hapless pedestrians thinking of crossing (they have good reason to be wary as bicycles can’t really stop quickly at all - they have so little rubber on the road).
This is a panning wobbly picture taken from the scaffolding on top of my neighbour's house that was put up to repair his roof. The house is an old merchant’s house built in the 1600s. It’s three storeys high and built, as they usually were, without foundations. I was on top of that, so four floors up.
The view from up there was striking - only the church tower, higher up the village, would be loftier. For all that, though, it was difficult to use for photography because of all the chimneys and scaffold poles. You can see the effect one of the scaffold poles in the image appearing as a light line at right angles to the movement.
Still, the cyclist was most accommodating wearing a red helmet, so I couldn’t resist trying. This is for my 100x Wobbly Camera project.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the lethal plummeter. Happy 100x :)
Downward Plummet
There’s nothing quite so exhilarating as careering down a hill on a bike…
The village where I live is one long hill. The cyclists love haring down the main road terrorising the hapless pedestrians thinking of crossing (they have good reason to be wary as bicycles can’t really stop quickly at all - they have so little rubber on the road).
This is a panning wobbly picture taken from the scaffolding on top of my neighbour's house that was put up to repair his roof. The house is an old merchant’s house built in the 1600s. It’s three storeys high and built, as they usually were, without foundations. I was on top of that, so four floors up.
The view from up there was striking - only the church tower, higher up the village, would be loftier. For all that, though, it was difficult to use for photography because of all the chimneys and scaffold poles. You can see the effect one of the scaffold poles in the image appearing as a light line at right angles to the movement.
Still, the cyclist was most accommodating wearing a red helmet, so I couldn’t resist trying. This is for my 100x Wobbly Camera project.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the lethal plummeter. Happy 100x :)