More on "Still", and more about Old St Paul's

Last week, when I was out with my tripod, I returned to Old St Paul’s, to have another look at Alison Watt’s “Still” – and to try taking some more pictures: using the tripod would allow me to use a far slower shutter speed and so a slower sensor setting, getting images without having to manipulate them too much. I wanted to see what I could do with more freedom with the shutter.

It was a different visit to my last: having a tripod just makes me feel different – more self-conscious, more tied down (despite the greater flexibility it provides); and there were other people in the church, and in the chapel: they were cleaning the lamps in the chapel, and cleaning the church as a whole. So that was another reason for feeling more self conscious. Plus I could get the self-timer on the camera to work properly – the exposures were many seconds, and I used the self-timer to avoid shaking the camera by squeezing the shutter release.

I am not sure if the different exposure makes a difference to the images: perhaps they are clearer and cleaner, but less characterful.

( More pictures – and more words… )

More on "Still", and more about Old St Paul's

Last week, when I was out with my tripod, I returned to Old St Paul’s, to have another look at Alison Watt’s “Still” – and to try taking some more pictures: using the tripod would allow me to use a far slower shutter speed and so a slower sensor setting, getting images without having to manipulate them too much. I wanted to see what I could do with more freedom with the shutter.

It was a different visit to my last: having a tripod just makes me feel different – more self-conscious, more tied down (despite the greater flexibility it provides); and there were other people in the church, and in the chapel: they were cleaning the lamps in the chapel, and cleaning the church as a whole. So that was another reason for feeling more self conscious. Plus I could get the self-timer on the camera to work properly – the exposures were many seconds, and I used the self-timer to avoid shaking the camera by squeezing the shutter release.

I am not sure if the different exposure makes a difference to the images: perhaps they are clearer and cleaner, but less characterful.

( More pictures – and more words… )

Mis-heard. And mis-read.

I was dozing listening to the radio early yesterday morning, and "Wake Up To Money" was on. (This is a misnomer; I have woken up to this many, many times - but no more money than I ever have.) Half awake, I would swear that I heard them tell me the Co-Op was buying Sellafield (aka Windscale), a British nuclear facility. I was very, very confused.

It was only later that I realised they must have been talking about a bid for the supermarket chain Somerfield...

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Then this morning I was glancing through radio listings in the paper when I noticed that Front Row featured Mark Lawson investigating the role of female dentists.

I had to read it again before I realised it said Mark Lawson investigates the role of the female dramatist.

Mis-heard. And mis-read.

I was dozing listening to the radio early yesterday morning, and "Wake Up To Money" was on. (This is a misnomer; I have woken up to this many, many times - but no more money than I ever have.) Half awake, I would swear that I heard them tell me the Co-Op was buying Sellafield (aka Windscale), a British nuclear facility. I was very, very confused.

It was only later that I realised they must have been talking about a bid for the supermarket chain Somerfield...

* * *

Then this morning I was glancing through radio listings in the paper when I noticed that Front Row featured Mark Lawson investigating the role of female dentists.

I had to read it again before I realised it said Mark Lawson investigates the role of the female dramatist.