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Clearly the term has finished…
The parking lot behind those trees is normally completely packed at this time of the day! 😛
The not-so-chilly morning (this doesn’t feel like late November!!)
The not-so-chilly morning (this doesn’t feel like late November!!), a photo by Manuel Jorge Marques on Flickr.
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Apart from the wind & current which made my life a bit more complicated on the way back, it was a very good outing this morning! And I had plenty of time to disembark, sort out my oars, get some slings out, take boat off the water, wash & wipe it thoroughly and still help another club re-rig their boat before I set sight on the rest of the club (yeah, I was the first one to go out 🙂 )
Bitoque!
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Portuguese Soc Lunch @ Cafe Jaer, Gillingham Kent.
It was good to have a typically Portuguese lunch, not only the food but the company and the setting – the kind of meal which can last for hours on end :).
This is what happens…
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… when you insist in running on the woods regardless of the weather conditions! 🙂
(but the path is pretty, what can I say? Much better than running in the messy city centre, & orders of magnitude better than running on a treadmill! 🙂 )
Another great sunset!
Last Sunday I just had time to dash out of the door, armed with my tripod and camera, to capture this beautiful sunset.
The weather here might be temperamental, but the skies are gorgeous!
Seasons…
Same place, same bike – but completely different surroundings!
How it was in March 2013:
And now (August 2013):
Which reminds me that the cold season is fast approaching… 🙁
This wall map of Europe…
(which I got from Lidl, of course!)
… is all very well, but the railway line depicted here (going all the way to Bragança) has been deactivated for almost 20 years now!
The final nail in the coffin of the Tua line will be given when the new Tua dam is completed and an important stretch of the now closed line will go under water.
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!
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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!
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