Life in the Bus Lane

P51-D Mustang, Old Warden, August 2008

Today was probably my first trip to an airshow for a good 20 years or so. Thanks to a free space in the car I headed up to Shuttleworth with the old fogies for the Military Pageant Air Display. The weather wasn’t too bad in the end, we drove through heavy rain on the way up, it was mostly dry while we were there, then we drove home in heavy rain again.

The day gave me a good chance to play with the new 300/f4 L IS, and realise that my sensor needs a good clean again.

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Well not so much “in space”, as “hanging from a tree”.

There’s also the less well known “pig in bondage”.

Marc delivered this last weekend, and I finally got around to taking a couple of the worlds dullest test shots to check it worked happily with my 30D.

Looks OK to me.

Thanks to a visit from Marc and Sian this morning, I now have a 300mm f/4 L IS lens sat on the front of my 30D. It’s my first foray into the world of L lenses, hopefully it won’t become an expensive habit.

Partly inspired by Andy resurrecting a load of old photos last week, I finally got around to sticking some old photo sets up onto flickr.

Northumberfest, 2004
Cyclocross race, 2004
Afan, 2003

To be honest though, I didn’t really need a 4×4 to drive across that field.

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Due to my dodgy back I’m not actually camping at the Scout Skills Camp, choosing instead to sleep in a proper comfortable bed. Helpfully they also thought I was on holiday this weekend and not able to attend, so I’m not really needed.

I popped out this afternoon to give the Canon G9 a proper work out, and ended up leaving the 30D in the boot of the car untouched.

Whilst the 30D can take far superior photographs, in these conditions the G9 was the better camera to use. It fits in a pocket, and the resulting photographs are more than adequate for what I need.