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Shadow self-portrait...
I'm still not taking my Nikon D200 camera seriously, just having fun with it whenever I feel in the mood... maybe this is the secret of digital photography! The plus I have found is that difficult scenes or lighting situations can be played-back instantly to see whether a good one is in the can... or in digital terms, "on the disk."
Whilst staying awhile in an hotel this summer - the "Hotel de l'Espérance" in Preuilly-sur-Claise - I turned from the window and was surprised to see my shadow being cast on the ceiling. It was a hot, sunny day and the brilliant shaft of light was being reflected from a car's windscreen, parked in the square below. The angle of the sunlight reflected from the glass was changing quickly so I exposed half a dozen shots with a Nikkor 12-24 zoom, at different focal lengths, to see how the strange scene looked. At first I was cropping in only on my hand-waving shadow... but widened the angle to include details of the room... which "set" the scene perfectly. The cropped images of my shadow were just that and, apart from the cast shadows of the net curtains, could have been taken almost anywhere.
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I've made a few simple changes to this page... from now on only one article is viewable at a time... and I've deleted most of the "blog" company and various advertising links because they all slowed-down the page load (and the latter didn't earn any click-through commission anyway!). Where I live the telephone system is still "dial-up" but I know that the sometimes heavily illustrated articles are loading faster.
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