Day 56

Committing to doing this blog on a daily basis has been really good for me, apart from anything else it has forced me to go out every day to get new pictures. Not that I really need to be forced to go out photographing, it might be better to say it has given me the excuse to go out every day. Today is day 56 and I am delighted to have kept going this far . Some days I have watched wonderful light and struggled to get out when I would like to, other days when the weather is particularly grey I put off going out in the hope it will improve . Today was one of those days, I got out around 5.15pm, and had to be back by 6.15 for Wednesday nights night class. It was clear that there would be no sunset so I decided to go to Westport house, I thought I might photograph a weir in the grounds and some trees. There was no water in the weir and while I did photograph some trees, the lack of any interesting light meant there not worth showing you!
I headed back to the Gallery for the night class and as I drove down the Mall in Westport, I thought that it was my best chance of a picture. It was quite dark but I used neutral density filters to slow the exposure down to thirty seconds, this smoothes the water.



The close up picture of the fountain and lights is done with the camera white balance set to tungsten this causes the blue colour which I like.