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Fellow photographers. Don’t ever sit on a garbage bag on a steep snowy bank. I made this mistake and went hurtling down the slope with the leg of my tripod in one hand until I was able to grab onto a tree trunk. Also don’t breathe over your filter in -15 temperatures or you’ll have to defrost that filter up your jumper and you’ll still get fogging which is what happened here.
The cathedral of Chartres forms one of the most spectacularly exciting ensembles of medieval architecture, sculpture and stained-glass windows.
Erected mostly between 1194 and 1260, the building remained relatively unharmed by the calamities of history, in particular the Religious Wars and the French Revolution.
The most prominent symbol of the cultural revival of the 12th century and a glorious rebuttal of the commonly heard notion of the "Dark Middle Ages", Notre-Dame of Chartres was designated World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.
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Notre Dame de Paris at sunrise, reflected in the calm waters of the River Seine. A masterpiece of French Gothic architecture, the iconic cathedral shows its grace despite the destruction of its roof and spire in a major fire two weeks prior to this photo capture. Notre Dame has suffered several calamities since its original construction in the 12th century, though none as catastrophic as the recent fire.
Renovation efforts have begun, though shoring up the structure to prevent collapse indicates the precarious state of the building. The goal is to complete the restoration in 5 years, though architects have cautioned that a careful reconstruction of a design similar to the prior form may take longer. Despite the hundreds of millions of euros pledged by individuals and NGOs to fund the reconstruction, only a fraction have been donated.
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This was the May showing - Thursday was unfortunately a very different story.
My alerts were brewing all week but we have had horrendous cloud cover down here. I knew Thursday looked promising so I drove to Hatchet Pond. The app was going mad but there was just a wall of thick cloud. I should have just been more patient and stayed put but instead I drove home thinking I would go back out if it improved. Test shots from my back garden started to show something so I decided to head back out.
I won't go into details but a driving mishap put paid to the venture. The main thing is no-one was hurt.
My husband keeps saying you have got the Northern lights.. why do you need to photograph them again?
He doesn't get it!
It was only later that night, back at base that I realised Icelandic lightning had struck twice. Not in the form of a thunderstorm, more’s the pity - the light would have been a gazillion times more exciting. Last time I found myself unwittingly shooting in jpeg mode, my camera had suffered a midnight malfunction more than three years earlier at Aldeyjarfoss. Happily, I’d already taken the shots I needed, as in frustration I went to the total reset option, but what I’d forgotten was that the resulting default setting ignores RAW mode completely. Which seems crazy for a so-called professional camera. It was only as I stood on a completely overcast beach at Stokksnes thirty-six hours later that I suddenly noticed I’d been shooting jpegs. For a moment I’ll leave you to imagine the language. It’s a good job not many people had bothered to try and photograph the invisible Vestrahorn that day.
This time it wasn’t so much absentmindedness as good old fashioned incompetence that had knocked on the door of disaster at the enchanting, yet challenging to photograph Brúarfoss. You see, most of the time it matters little that one external memory slot contains a thirty-two gigabyte CF card while the other holds an SD card with four times the capacity. After all, most of the time I don’t come close to filling either card, and so every image is faithfully recorded onto two separate storage devices. Ideal if one fails. Full marks to the manufacturer. I inherited the CF card, courtesy of the previous camera I’d owned - yes the one that wobbled at Aldeyjarfoss three years ago. And while thirty-two gigabytes was once more than adequate, things have moved on - especially if you remember to shoot in RAW mode. But CF cards are expensive, and I like holidays. It’s not going to be a priority item anytime soon.
This time, only four days into the trip, the CF card was already full and the camera was complaining. And faced with the need for a quick solution in a hurry, it seemed I’d chosen the wrong option. Twice. For a while all images were recorded in both formats, and then when another urgent message appeared on the screen which refused to go until I’d pushed some more buttons, both cards resorted to jpeg only. All of which had happened at one of those roadside stops earlier in the day. In my head I still hear the famous five words that Ali so often deploys for more important moments than this, such as when the washing machine has broken down again - “should have read the manual.” And Brúarfoss, with its intricately pretty glacier blue waterfall was the casualty. In fact I’ve spent so many column inches rattling on about storage media that I’ve neglected to talk about the waterfall, which despite all of the challenges, was an aquamarine gem. I’ll have to post a second story from here, with another image edited from a jpeg. I won’t mention any of this again, I promise.
By the time I got home from this second Iceland adventure, I’d taken almost two thousand exposures, enough to fill that CF card almost four times, yet the SD card was still happily swallowing each new image. And just to attach the proverbial braces to the already belted trousers, each night I downloaded everything onto an even bigger external hard drive, before uploading it all into my online storage cloud too. At least something on the technical side seemed to be working properly. After the trip I even retired that SD card with all of the images still stored on it. Just in case. It lives in an untouched drawer.
All of this has prompted me to check current prices for CF cards, and as usual the online results include a bucketful of products I didn’t ask to see. Among them an adapter to put an SD card into a CF card slot. Now why didn’t I think of that before? I’m just going to stop here a moment and bang my head on the desk to see if any common sense manages to creep in through the gaps between my ears. Then I’ll write a story about Brúarfoss. It deserves a bit of lyrical waxing after this sorry tale of operational oversight.
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Dear God, calamity again! ...
It was so peaceful, so serene;
We but began to break the chains
That bind our folk in slavery ...
When halt! ... Again the people's blood
Is streaming! Like rapacious dogs
About a bone, the royal thugs
Are at each other's throat again.
Taras Shevchenko - 'Calamity again'.
Translated by John Weir
CP 5960 helps power Rocky Mountaineer's P610 as they negotiate the curves near Calamity Tunnel on CP's Cascade Sub.
Calamity Song - The Decemberists
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Had a dream
You and me and the war of the end-times
And I believe
California succumbed to the fault line
We heaved relief
As scores of innocents died
And the Andalusian tribes
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
Hetty Green
Queen of supply-side bonhomie bone-drab
You know what I mean
On the road
It's well advised that you follow your own bag
In the year of the chewable Ambien tab
And the Panamanian child
Stands at the Dowager Empress's side
And all that remain is the arms of the angels
And all that remain is the arms of the angels
And you've receded into loam
And they're picking at your bones
We'll come home
We'll come home
Quiet now
Will we gather to conjure the rain down?
Will we now
Build a civilization below ground?
And I'll be crowned the community kick-it-around
And the Andalusian tribes
Setting the lay of Nebraska alight
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
'Til all that remain is the arms of the angels
We only rode two rides the whole day
adn ate a GIANT cookie! :D
took loootttssss of pictures!
and danced with the old guy !