I totally forgot about this crazy shot I took with a fisheye lens at a roundabout long exposure catching all kind of light trails
I’ve still got that lens and will never get rid of it, I don’t often use it but when I do it always amazes me, it’s a Sigma 15mm f/2.8 EX DG Diagonal Fisheye
I love shots like this 
This was a bit of luck actually, my camera max long exposure time is 30 seconds at ISO 50 L before the shutter closes, I wasn’t expecting that double decker bus to come along, I was only planning on the light trails of cars coming and going, therefore I only expected low level white trails from the front beams and red trails from the rear car lights, but this bus was all lit up full of people and had these blue neon lights inside the top deck which made the coolest trail ever, when you do long exposure on traffic you get red white and amber for the indicators, never a blue trail like that. I was so happy about that.
At the time I published that shot on Flickr it went viral for months 
I am re-posting this pic because through the magic of Adobe LightRoom I was able to get rid of the 2 bollards in front of it and the people at the end of the tunnel.
Out this morning with my camera for what feels like the first time in months. The bridge is called ‘nineteen arches’ and is located at the end of Carr Mill Dam in St Helens. Photos straight off the camera, I’ll have a play with post production when She Who Must Be Obeyed goes round to her mothers.
Christ… my missus only has one mother and that’s more than enough…
Out this morning with my camera for what is the first time in months. 
A member of the breakfast club commenting on the quality and quantity of this morning’s mealworms:
My neighbour taking advantage of the wind and tide:
Wow, must have a big garden. 
In a previous post I wrote
Out this morning with my camera for what is the first time in months.
I looked at the last pictures taken before I had picked up the camera again just before Christmas - there were dated November.
2020!
Since then I have almost exclusively used my mobile when I want to take pictures. It is only because I was coveting a pro video setup that included three Canon lenses that I got out my Nikon gear with a view to selling it.
Having played with it over the last few days I have fallen in love with ti again
Wash your mouth out Sir, Canon indeed ffs. I used to like you an’ all
When I were a lad, being flown around in Cessnas or an Enstrom jollicopter, I had a Canon AE-1, an A1 and a set of Canon prime lenses from 28 to 200 mm, all maximum available aperture. I was shooting 100 ASA colour neg, normally Fuji, up to 70 thirty-six exposure rolls per day.
I like Canon kit as much as Nikon but, end of the day, anything that is half decent - point it and shoot it, no camera system is perfect, you just learn to live with or to work around its shortcomings
Was only jesting of course, my first “real” camera was the T90, couldn’t afford decent prime lenses though 
. Sounds like you had some fun in yer yoof
I was out testing a new tripod the other evening and stopped off at Celtic Park on my way home for a quick pic of their Chrimbo lights on Celtic Way.
Celtic Park - Nikon Z6II - 2 secs @ f11, 160iso.
Nice, do you sell these John? My father in law is Celtic daft, wouldn’t mind printing the bottom one for him.
I do actually Darren, though none of my Celtic photos are on my website yet. What sort of print size would he want?
Probably A4?
