On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:11:19 +0100, "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Friday I went to Ashmore, a village in Dorset, to photograph their > midsummer festival, which is called Filly Loo. > > The festival takes place around the village pond, a dew pond which > supposedly goes back to before Roman times. The festival itself seems > to go back a very long time too, and is a very enjoyable occasion, > almost like being in Thomas Hardy's day: > > http://www.web-options.com/FL2008/ > > After this I went over to Stonehenge for the solstice, and will post a > gallery later. > > These 2 events were my first serious attempt to use 2nd-curtain > slow-synch flash, so I made a lot of technical errors, but it's a > useful technique on a wet midsummer's eve, and I'm starting to get the > hang of it. > > Comments welcome, of course. >
Nice work even though the festival looks a bit like a set from "Midsomer Murders".... I particularly liked 6207778 with the two girls by the lake and 6207752 with the creature from the black lagoon.... Looking forward to seeing the Stonehenge set. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
