Funfair
Easter fun at Ocean Terminal.
A winter afternoon’s exerise with a single, fixed focal-length lens – in this case a standard 50 mm.
An itch scratched – taking some shots from up high, looking down on people and stuff with a tilt-shift lens in tilt mode, so it makes it look all Toytown-Lego-land. It’s a tight squeeze getting up the ever-narrowing spiral staircase to the very top level.
The weir at the old gunpowder works has finally given way.
Thursday morning, July 2nd, 1 a.m., the pyrotechnics started. I got up to have a look at it – see if there was any lightning strike I could have a go at photographing. There were! I went and got the camera, then got the tripod, then got the remote cord, then set it up, then had a think about settings. Then put in the settings. By the time I had it set up, the rain had come over and most of the lightning was above the clouds.
However, there was still the odd flash coming down. So, I stood there firing off 4 second exposures, trying to capture one. I was probably going something like 4 sconds on, 4 seconds off, 4 seconds on, 4 seconds off… It’s amazing how many of the flashes came during the offs – nearly every one. One of the best examples of Sod’s Law I’ve ever experienced.
Finally I got a good one, only to find I’d missed it off to the left, as the storm had moved round while I had been standing there firing off shots for the last half hour. I repositioned the camera and continued, but by now the storm was on the way out, and there wasn’t much more in the way of action. Here’s the best of what I got.
A few ‘texture’ themed shots while buying 2-stroke oil at the Bosuns Locker. Also took a few snapshots of how the new bridge is progressing.
The demoliton of the twin chimneys of Cockenzie Power Station.
Inside the members’ bar at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s HQ, The Vaults, Leith.