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Most of the time I don't have a camera with me anymore, but every now and then when the weather looks promising, I take it along. Like that morning a little over a week ago.
Up before dawn on a freezing morning in the Highlands, I must be mad, and I was supposed to be on holiday! What's worse, I dragged my wife out of bed to come and watch the Sleeper, a DRS freight and an HST depart as dawn broke.
I have to say, though, it was fantastic, the peace only broken by the trains and watching the sun rise over the mountains was magical - how fortunate to have a hobby that gets you to witness such magic.
Anyway, this is 66431 rattling through Blair Atholl on the Highland Main Line with 4H47 04:53 Coatbridge to Inverness. If you've not seen it, I've a feature-length video on YouTube.
22nd September 2025
sea-mist lying on the southern shore of the fjord, momentarily lit by the early sun… (it's in shade again now)
From one of the nights when Caitlin and I didn't sleep,
and from the roll of film I wished was color.
I took this at 6am this morning.
I had a a very odd dream and was wide awake after concluding (in the dream) that albeit a very comforting story, it was in essence only a dream.
I am not at all a morning person, which is why this was particularly tough to take. The moon was so bright that I was able to change my lenses and set up the tripod without turning on any lights (indoors).
This is my first attempt at shooting the moon. I tried 16 shots with the last one bearing relatively decent results. Then I got tired and resigned to bed.
Time: 06:45 today (23.10.2010)
Subject: Moon
Nikon D90
Tokina AF35-300mm at 300mm
ISO 200
1/200 (0.005 sec)
f/32
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This is a shot of the Palouse Falls in Washington. Taken after leaving the house at 3am, standing on a cliff edge in the dark, in 17 degree fahrenheit weather.
I haven't posted anything in a while so I felt like just throwing something up here. This is a shot from my first day w/ my new camera. I hadn't shot HDR in quite a while & I figured I'd try it out again now that I had all these new megapixels to work with. I didn't really like this shot much, but I feel like it's notable for two reasons:
1) I made this in about 3 minutes with the HDR Pro tool in CS5. I guess I assumed that tool sucked, but I decided to give it a shot, basically out of boredom. I'm glad I did. PS did a good job with this one.
2) For some reason, I woke up at 5:30AM & couldn't fall back asleep. The result was this. A shot of the sun rising over Hermosa Beach. If you look really closely, you can see the city of Los Angeles way back on the horizon. (Okay...no you can't. did you look?)
Hit the blog for a before & after and a few more story details:
Madam decided she had to sleep in the centre of the bed last night! No amount of shoving with my legs would persuade her to move over.
Apart from a young Japanese couple and some street cleaners I had the whole of Colmar's old town to my self until well after 7am
A little soft or blurred though shutter speed was fast, not sure what the autofocus locked on, but I like it enough and it printed out fine.
OK seems to have hit explore.... thats nice, thanks :)