Family, Gigs, Romania, Weddings, New Toys…
This has been a really good weekend.
Jonny and Kristina (who, yes Dan, is a ‘beast’) came to stay with us from Thursday till Saturday, so we grabbed the excuse for a jolly and took them out on Friday night. After enough deep-fried cheese & butter to cause a coronary in a 30 ton mega-elephant (bronchial pneumonia optional) followed by a huuuge rib eye steak at Steki in Brighton, we went to the Latest bar to see Funky Buddha play. We’ve seen them a few times before & they’ve never failed to impress so we thought we’d pass the experience to Jonny & Kristina who also approved.
It was a great night out after a very long 8 or so days, so was very welcome.
I’ve been thinking for a while about how to move my photography on a bit, and since a bad workman always blames his tools, it seemed like a camera upgrade was definitely the way forward.
So on Saturday, I shared my thoughts with Sarah, who rather than saying “don’t be so stupid, we can’t afford that kind of thing” etc, actually said “Well you’re going to Romania (by the way, I’m going to Romania if you hadn’t heard! more news on that in later posts) very soon specifically to take photos amongst other things, and then you’re doing a friends wedding very shortly after, so if you’re thinking of a new camera, we’d best go get it today!”
After I’d recovered from the shock, we bundled Jonny & Kristina into the car, took them on a whistle stop tour of Middle Farm for lunch, then Firle beacon to see the paragliders do their thing, and chucked them out (having genuinely had a great couple of days with them) at Burgess Hill Station on the way to Park cameras.
I bought myself a shiny D90 and a shiny 18-105 VR lens to match.
To celebrate, I took it out at dusk, and yielded to Neil‘s encouragements to have a crack at HDR photography. The picture at the top of this post is my first real attempt, and I’m really made up with it. What do you think?
