latest additions and wanderings

I have been doing some different stuff and have added some here.
Hope that I can now improve on them.

This was taken on Thursday evening on one of the Arboretum's evening openings. There tends to be not so many people about and there can be some interesting light at this time of day. Jim and Steve came as well and a good evening was had. The reason I like this view and image is I see it as leading into memories, and is well designed from a building point of view.

With my Dad having spent many years in the RAF this has some memories for me. It is difficult to photograph and I will persevere to get the one I want. I like the idea of the monument in the background.

This is the Basra wall, and with the light this evening it shows a reflection of the monument. In a way this allows one to to reflect on the reason for the Arboretum. Having been brought up in the service life it has a meaning for me as well.

This is Emma from the local dancing school, taken on a Reflex evening I was invited to. Not having any experience of this sort of subject I found it really interesting, the lighting was preset, but managed to achieve a reasonable result with a classic ballet move.

This is Nick putting the final touches to the latest batch of names on the memorial for 2010. What is surprising is that there are now 1600 spaces for names left!

This is Sophie in her flamenco outfit at the same Reflex evening. The evening was very good, but strange having dancers with no music to dance to. I missed the twirling skirt in this one but see the next for this effect.

Sophie again, but well into her stride here, and I have managed to capture some movement this time. Again the lighting was set up already, but the changes could be made with the aperture to suit.

I spent the other Friday night messing about with my light table and Jim's lights and came up with this. It is quite hard to get the lighting right, but I managed a better effort below.