22. January 2015

Strait Lines

This Blipfoto thing is getting in the way of the rest of my life. This morning 'the light' suddenly appeared. I clambered into the car and drove up onto the Foreland (sanctimonious me that drivels on about people driving over 'our walk').  I phutzed and clutzed about with camera and tripod in the fairly parky North-Easterly, the tripod bobbing around on the springy downland grasses. Getting home the shots were awash with spots - both 'dusty censor' (I'm thinking of that as my nom de guerre) and 'crap on lens'. I labouriously 'mended' some of the images but made me realise I need to up my game considerably (and eventually buy at least one other lens).


Looking at my web stats the blog is now topping the pages viewed for the first time ever - normally it is The History of Cape Town Townships (which I find kind of flattering).  Here is the blip and a few others from the clifftop session.

The blip: 'Strait Lines' - another clever (ha ha) play on words - the Dover Strait and the horizon and sun ray lines and the shipping lines that use the Strait.
The blip: 'Strait Lines' - another clever (ha ha) play on words - the Dover Strait and the horizon and sun ray lines and the shipping lines that use the Strait.
This was one of the first shots when the pink-organge light was more intense. I'm not sure why this wasn't the blip today. Maybe that colour, and the big chunky cloud/suray segments in the one above.
This was one of the first shots when the pink-organge light was more intense. I'm not sure why this wasn't the blip today. Maybe that colour, and the big chunky cloud/suray segments in the one above.
A crop from the shot above. F18, 1/320, ISO 400. That's a ship on the distant uplane of the Strait and France behind.
A crop from the shot above. F18, 1/320, ISO 400. That's a ship on the distant uplane of the Strait and France behind.
Hard to balance the dogwood scrub at the front with the high contrast.
Hard to balance the dogwood scrub at the front with the high contrast.
Rent asunder: the almost indecent light of the sun breaking through the clouds over the Dover Strait in January, 2015.
Rent asunder: the almost indecent light of the sun breaking through the clouds over the Dover Strait in January, 2015.
The Milky Way: the chalk stream nearest the cliff created by both wave action stirring sediments and the particular run of the currents in the Strait and the vast expanse of the North Sea creating a curve in the horizon.
The Milky Way: the chalk stream nearest the cliff created by both wave action stirring sediments and the particular run of the currents in the Strait and the vast expanse of the North Sea creating a curve in the horizon.
The stark white of the cliff threw the colour balance out. Should have used the centre focus metre. Put some green and blues back in. Focus is on that distant pine tree for some reason.
The stark white of the cliff threw the colour balance out. Should have used the centre focus metre. Put some green and blues back in. Focus is on that distant pine tree for some reason.
The last shot two minutes after the Blip shot. I was on station between 09.30 and 10.10.
The last shot two minutes after the Blip shot. I was on station between 09.30 and 10.10.
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  • #1

    The Principal (Thursday, 22 January 2015 15:29)

    These are great photos. What an amazing place to live!