They got it right
27th February 2010
The weather forecasters said today would be “mainly dry with occasional showers here and there “ I set off towards Lough Mask this morning around 8am, The weather looked ok as I left but quickly clouded over, and was so bad that I decided there was no point in continuing on the journey so I turned the car for home.
Rather then go home empty handed I decided I would photograph a small waterfall near the road just to get a picture for the blog, it seemed as soom as I got out of the car it started to rain. I took a picture any way, and drove on, I stopped at a second fall and set up the camera, it started to rain again, this time persistently.
I was fascinated by the water, I noticed that a slow shutter speed resulted in bubbles at the base of the fall forming swirls, so despite the rain I took a number of pictures at various shutter speeds resulting in different swirls.
The first picture was a test to set up composition and check exposure the shutter speed is 60th second, note the bubbles .
The second picture was taken at a shutter speed of 10 seconds to show movement. Both my camera and I got soaked. I sat back into the car and turned on the heating full blast to dry us both out. The rain stopped and I moved on.
These sheep seemed pleased to see me, I expect they thought I was coming to feed them, because as soon as I stopped the car they gathered near the gate of their field. As soon as I got out of the car the rain started again, and very quickly became persistent again.
I stepped back out of the car to photograph the road ahead.
I am sure you will agree I was justified in abandoning the trip and just going home. Now I have to point out the sheep were on the left side of the road, you have seen the picture of what lay ahead,
and to my right it looked pretty dark to, although there was sunshine,
However a wide angle lens gives a very different perspective with some blue sky.
This picture was taken at 10.04, as I sat back into the car, the weather forecaster repeated her prediction “mainly dry with occasional showers here and there” I sat with the windows steaming thinking “well Ive been here and there this morning and I have occasionally got out of the car, how can they get it so right!
Rather then go home empty handed I decided I would photograph a small waterfall near the road just to get a picture for the blog, it seemed as soom as I got out of the car it started to rain. I took a picture any way, and drove on, I stopped at a second fall and set up the camera, it started to rain again, this time persistently.
I was fascinated by the water, I noticed that a slow shutter speed resulted in bubbles at the base of the fall forming swirls, so despite the rain I took a number of pictures at various shutter speeds resulting in different swirls.
The first picture was a test to set up composition and check exposure the shutter speed is 60th second, note the bubbles .
The second picture was taken at a shutter speed of 10 seconds to show movement. Both my camera and I got soaked. I sat back into the car and turned on the heating full blast to dry us both out. The rain stopped and I moved on.
These sheep seemed pleased to see me, I expect they thought I was coming to feed them, because as soon as I stopped the car they gathered near the gate of their field. As soon as I got out of the car the rain started again, and very quickly became persistent again.
I stepped back out of the car to photograph the road ahead.
I am sure you will agree I was justified in abandoning the trip and just going home. Now I have to point out the sheep were on the left side of the road, you have seen the picture of what lay ahead,
and to my right it looked pretty dark to, although there was sunshine,
However a wide angle lens gives a very different perspective with some blue sky.
This picture was taken at 10.04, as I sat back into the car, the weather forecaster repeated her prediction “mainly dry with occasional showers here and there” I sat with the windows steaming thinking “well Ive been here and there this morning and I have occasionally got out of the car, how can they get it so right!