Someone commented that this picture looked like the woman was fleeing from the small black car, like in a suspense movie of something, which I quite liked.
It wasn’t my intent to create such drama – I was simply photographing the large bridge and thought the jogger would add some interest. I probably just waited for her and the car to reach favourable positions in the scene before pressing the shutter button. A happy accident, I guess. 🙂
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
On one of the days during our holiday in Dubrovnik, I left my wife reading her book on the roof terrace of the hotel while I got the bus into town and took a walk all the way around the city walls which encompass the Old Town. It was a very warm day and there is little shelter atop the wall (although there was a place selling reasonably priced drinks, and a somewhat more expensive bar restaurant at various points of the circuit), but there were plenty of other people doing the same thing.
There are a number of places where you can enter various turrets, and I took a number of pictures looking out of these, one of which is included below, and I also tool many other photographs, some of which I’ve already posted, and quite a few still to come (although I think these are the last city wall shots in colour).
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I spent a few minutes atop the Dubrovnik city wall watching people leap into the sea from the rocks above the water. At the time I wasn’t sure if this photo would work, mostly because I wondered if the people jumping would be noticeable in the frame (they aren’t, really – although I dig catch one of them mid-leap), but it works nicely as a landscape picture with the composition making it look almost like a large lake or fjord.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.
I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
I was supposed to be visiting Newark Air Museum today with my dad but, as is often the case, the weather let us down. The forecast yesterday evening stated that it would be cloudy, but with some occasional sunshine in the afternoon. However, when I got up this morning the forecast had changed and was now claiming drizzly rain throughout the day. As a lot of the museum’s exhibits are outside, we decided to postpone the visit to a day with better conditions.
It annoys me a lot that weather forecasts change overnight so often. The whole purpose of a forecast is to allow people to plan activities accordingly and, while I appreciate predicting the weather is an extremely complex task, it is frustrating that in 2024 it sometimes feels that I would be better off with a pine-cone or bit of seaweed or something.
So, instead of looking at a load of old aeroplanes, I spent a lot of the day playing Astro Bot on the PlayStation. Not my initial plan for the day, but a lot of fun nevertheless.
The picture below has nothing to do with aircraft of PlayStations, but I guess it loosely ties into the gaming link.
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Here are another bunch of pictures I took when I climbed Mount SrÄ‘ (I actually took the cable-car, but there is a big zig-zag path to the top for those so inclined…).
There’s also another shot of the daredevil woman who climbed the fence at the cable-car station and then sat on the rocks to take in the view.
If you’d like to experience the cable-car descent, I made a video:
Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
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