Wrong Corrected - Right model Sony Charger 

Ordered a battery charger with an adapter for car charger and also American converter. Wrong model arrived but it is in hand to change it. It will be handy to be able to charge a battery while travelling in car. Also should I ever win on Euromillions and go to the States and Canada on a tour it will be useful there too.

Egg on my Face

After messages to and fro from the firm in China I found it WAS the correct model. I was not pushing the battery on to the contacts firmly enough. I feared that my normal ham-handedness would break something. I apolgised to the firm for the trouble I had caused. 

Busy weekend, had a message from Carol Deacon to ask if I could cover the Memorial service and the Parade. She said she was doing Nailsea one and could not be in two places at the same time.

The British Legion Chairman Rob Campbell places the wreath at the memorial Service

I found the metal pillars a nuisance but managed by moving around a lot.
Decided to try a sweep pic to show the size of the crowd.

The folk attending on a fine sunny morning was greater than they had ever had before.

In the afternoon the car park at Salthouse was crammed full by two o;clock. Cars were going in and dropping off 90+ year olds and then having to go off to find a place to park. Old Church Road by the Garage corner with Elton road was streamed with cars all along the way to Victoria Road.
Avon Glen pipers were there to lead the parade.

The veterans preceded by the Legion banners.

I got a place by the old Poor House wall and took a series of pix.
Pipe Band, Veterans, Army Cadets, Air Cadets, St johns, Scouts, Cubs, Guides, Brownies, et all.
Contrast was high and I had to edit with Elements to reduce the highlights.
Took 18 of the service and posted 8 and 20 of the parade and posted 10 on Clevedon People, Flickr, and Morguefile.
I was told on Monday morning that the church was packed with people and they had to used the side chapel as well to contain the numbers.
Carol Deacon was pleased with it. I told her it took me back 50 years to when I used to freelance getting pix and stories for the Clevedon Mercury.
Job well done so i treated myself to a bottle of Ldl's rum on the way home.

Clevedon threequarter slips tackle.

Watched a dissapointing game versus Chard. I felt that our 3s should have been given more ball. As it was Chard forwards dominated and keeping the ball tight failed to give us control

Ill met by moonlight-2

Below is the link to the original pic, to view black it in with the cursor then right click and select 'Open Link'.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60892750@N00/6486407873/

I would love to get suggestions from anyone that views this blog.


Had a suggestion on Flickr that it would be better with more contrast but I think it loses the idea of moonlight. Done like this it seems too light to be a night shot.

First rugby match I could watch for 8 weeks.

Matt Carpenter scores Clevedon's first try, backed up by Harry Knowles and Ashley Vailes.

 Touch and go. We were winning 19 to 9 then we were a bit over-confident I reckon they levelled at 19 all  Last play of the game, Taylor took a penalty and the end result Clevedon 22 Cleve 19

Tried a new idea with Infrared pix
I went up to the firwoods and took a series of pix.  There was still enough foliage on the trees to show and I got around 15 shots of varying pathways. When I got back I did the usual edit and then selected som pix and used Edge enhancement in P.S.P. 8.

This was done Grey then add Sepia then Onestep cool colour then edge enhance

This seems to work better than 'sharpen' because sharp exagerates the small specks and results in salt & pepper spotting over the whole pic. Whereas Edge enhancement seems to emphasise the effects of most of the edge lines between objects.

Thsi was the same editing but without the Edge Enhancement. It shows particularly in the stones on the trackway.

  The same thing used to happen when using Beutler developer in monochrome photography, back in the 'dark days' a line so sharp when using a fine grain film like Adox KB17 that there almost seemed to be a fine line around the edges. The effect is subtle but nevertheless there. ..

The first man out

At last this year at the Arnhem Pilgrimage I managed to get a shot of the first man leaving the Dakota during the parachute jumps.
I had the SLT 77 set to high speed 12 frames a second and got 3 good pix with the 18-270 Tamron set to a 1.4 magnification with the camera body. 
Trouble previously has always been using a tele-extender the camera focus is shorted out. The in-body extender still allows auto focus.

The 3rd shot, in the ime he moved 5 feet I had taken 3 pix.