HDR

High Dynamic Range photo - a test

Bloody cold at funerals

Why is it always freezing cold at funerals? I was at a funeral earlier today (a work colleague's mother) and it was well attended so a group of us stood outside in sub-zero conditions because the funeral parlour was overflowing. The graveyard was equally cold. Naturally this is to be expected in January, but it often isn't that much warmer in summer at graveyards. Strange, eh?

Getting an education (sort of)

Had to kill some time in Belfast this morning while my son was at Queen's University library getting some books. I was lucky enough to find a parking space nearby so I had a little wander through Botanic Gardens. Unfortunately the Palm House was closed so I decided to pay the Ulster Museum a quick visit instead. I'll go better prepared next time (ie Nikon D200) as they now allow photography in the museum.

Here's a photo I took with the Coolpix of the sculpture thingy at the front entrance



I'm still having problems getting good photos out of the Coolpix. Because it's so small and light I have trouble holding it steady and the colour balance seems a bit on the cool side giving my pictures a sort of blue tint. I'll have to play around with the settings a bit, maybe I'll even read the manual.

What I'm listening to

The Journey of a Feather by Ancelin. Never heard of them? I'll bet you haven't


The River Blackwater at Verner's Bridge

Update time

Time to finally update this blog. I've updated the links and included one to the new website. The template I use for the blog has been refreshed and I even have one of my own photos (Norfolk buzzard) as the page background. So far it all looks as if it's working as it should and all I need to do is put a backlink to here on the website. I'm not too worried if it's not 100% perfect as it's only a means of keeping in contact with family and friends so that I can avoid the social networking sites

Motivation

It has been a really long time, and I had been thinking I'd like to recommence posting the odd little item here, but the motivation was somewhat lacking, so maybe a 'photo-a-day'/online diary type thing would get me into the swing of it again?