Aaand… it is over!

This has been one hectic week, I can tell you! 🙂 Glad it is over!…

It was a very interesting experience, though – I got to experience the nitty-gritty issues of organising a conference, how to perform under pressure (still have a lot to improve in there!), and how important team work is (not that I wasn’t aware of that already! 😉 ).

A shame that I couldn’t make the best usage of the scientific program in there, though – with too many things to sort out, I barely saw any posters, and I had to miss some of the sessions to help out elsewhere. But I can’t really complain, as I attended the conference for free… 🙂

And now, it is time to get back to the UK… and work like crazy in the lab, as I need “publishable” results before I can actually go on holidays! And also make up for the time lost in terms of trainings, as I have an half-marathon to run and this past week was a big step backwards in my progress (no time for anything!), I ended up bringing my gear home just to fill my suitcase… 😛

Everything ready!

The conference is approaching!

Something is quite wrong here!…

Can you tell me what it is? 🙂

Tricks of the light

Yesterday I had some fun with my DSLR camera and tripod. I stood in almost complete darkness taking some long exposure time photos, here are the results:

This first one actually was not in complete darkness, as the house has a big halogen projector triggered by a motion sensor to illuminate the drive at night. Quite clever, but I wanted complete darkness – and since I couldn’t find the switch for it I had to wait until the timer went out, and then move surreptitiously without triggering the sensor again… 🙂

I like this one in particular – the projector went off, and I took this with a 30 second exposure time, F/4 aperture and ISO cranked up to the maximum (1600 or 3200? Can’t remember). It looks very grainy, which gives it quite a cool effect.

And then I played a bit with my car (my neighbours probably think I’m some sort of a nutcracker, standing just in shorts (it was quite hot outside) in complete darkness, photographing my car with various light settings. But I did have fun :).

This last one turned out to be quite nice – and this was only with the position lights on, no headlamps! (I could probably have set the f/# to a larger value…)

almost there!

almost there!, a photo by Manuel Jorge Marques on Flickr.

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This one still has a long way to go to get anywhere near the Uno… 🙂 but 25000 miles it is nevertheless a milestone!

I really can’t stop complaining, can I?

I really can’t stop complaining, can I?, a photo by Manuel Jorge Marques on Flickr.

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First it was because it was cold, then because it was wet, and now with such lovely weather outside I’m complaining it is too dry and I get dust everywhere :-P. Anyway, that doesn’t stop me from training!