With exposures around a second or two, wind blur is a problem. Sometimes it gives a shimmering quality to the highlights but usually it just blurs. A camera with an internal IR filter is becoming more attractive as (for reasons I am unable to understand) exposure times are normal and hand holding is therefore possible.
New rechargeable batteries seem to have done the trick and the Dimage 7 now holds power for an hour or two with a fresh set; for the moment anyway.
Apart from the lone tree the other images come from Wardsend Cemetery and Tin Mill Woods, by Wortley Station. The "white" bridge replaced an earlier wooden structure as the ford and leppings (stepping stones) are not safe to use when the river is in flood.
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The best buy of last week was a paper back version of "Camera Portraits: Photographs from the National Portrait Gallery, London, 1839-1989". I paid £4.99 from Oxfam although someone is trying to sell the hardback version for £156 on Amazon. It is yet another reminder of the outstanding quality of photography at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. The portraits may have been retouched but they are magnificent.
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Rupert Brooke in 1913
Mrs Patrick Campbell
The tradition of master photographers taking portraits of famous and beautiful people has, of course, continued. Even though Terry O'Neill's superb portait of Charlotte Rampling is not in the book, it is on the NPG website. That's my excuse anyway!
