Friday 18 June 2010

In the summertime

I'm not sure where spring went! I must have lost it in a flurry of activity that covered the last two months, but summer has arrived!

In my first evening off in weeks, it was looking so nice outside (and vaguely light for a change!) that i thought i'd return to my old photography haunt; roath lake.

The only two other beings on the lake were a swan and a fisherman (I saw him pack up at 8.30 the next morning, either he's dedicated to the sport or has an insufferable wife), and even with the occasional passing car, the scene was very calm and warm, so I tried to capture that in my photos.

The water still had some movement in it, but the long shutter times flattened it out so it looks almost like it's made of glass. That's the moon in top left, I tried to figure out an elaborate system to block it out for half of the exposure so it wouldn't be so bright, but left it for another time.