Content
Posts tagged with 'sunset'
What are "recent posts"?
The posts on this page have just been published a few moments ago.
-
- Is there a link between smoking and mental illness?
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 3 days old
- Smoking is to be banned in mental hospitals by 1st July, as part of the general workplace smoking ban, according to this report:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7265537.stm Apparently 70% of mental patients are smokers, as compared to 26% of the population at large. 70% of schizophrenics smoke too, and I can’t help but wonder if there... more
-
- Obscured by Clouds
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 4 days old
- In yesterday’s blog, I gave a few suggestions for how to increase your chances of taking a good picture of the sun as it sinks. Last night, I tried to put those suggestions into action. I concentrated on getting a composition with the sun on one side of the picture and something on the other side to balance it, and with the sun a... more
-
- 400 pictures and no good ones
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 5 days old
- Last night, the sun was dipping towards the sea in the most stunning manner and it looked like an ideal time to get some good sunset pictures. So, out on a walk on the beach with Helen, and our 2 dogs, I took 400 pictures: not a single one of them was good. No, not even one. So, the rest of this blog is a list of 10 problems of taking good... more
-
- “A different drum is playing a different kind of beat”
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 10 days old
- So there I was on the balcony, taking pictures of the sunset. The bloke in the picture above hoved into view on the promenade from the right, walking briskly and texting furiously all the while. I didn’t once see him even take a glance at the astonishing vista that he could have seen merely by tilting his head slightly to the right. He... more
-
- Behold the Beauty.
- by skip2468
- in keepsmiling.blog.co.uk
- 10 days old
- This is a sunset photo taken from our elder daughter's ( Beverly Anne ) home on Western Heights. All the bright patches are part of the sunset sky, covering a very great expanse. more
-
- Where the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 19 days old
- Have you ever tried to take photographs when it’s almost dark, with a very long exposure? They always end up looking blue, like the one above. There is a good scientific explanation for this. It’s because of “Rayleigh Scattering”. The atmosphere absorbs shorter wavelengths of light the most, and this then this gets... more
-
- Lessons learned as a biker
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 30 days old
- Up until a few years ago, I used to be a pretty hardcore motorcyclist. A long journey in foul weather in the midst of winter was no problem at all. Freezing cold, rain, sleet, snow, no problem: just wrap up well, wear waterproofs and check your oil and petrol before you leave. Failure to make the necessary precautions results in unnecessary... more
-
- It’s astonishing how quickly the sun goes down
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 31 days old
- Last night, Helen and I were watching a film in our living room, and there was an orangey glow in the sky from the sun behind a cloud. It wasn’t that vivid, but it was pretty. And then the sun suddenly dropped beneath the cloud to reveal the view you can see in the picture above (which gets bigger if you click on it). It was a matter of... more
-
- It’s on their knees those chimpanzees
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 37 days old
- There is something pleasing about eating dinner at the table. It feels sociable. But this week, Helen is in Scotland on holiday, so I have mostly not bothered and eaten from a plate on my knees whilst watching a film (Scarface with Al Pacino most recently). As I was doing so last night, I was immensely distracted from the film by the view I had... more
-
- I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
- by SeasideMan
- in seasideman.blog.co.uk
- 38 days old
- We often get stunning sunsets here on the West Coast, with an orangey-red sun dipping down into the sea. For the last few weeks it has been different. About an hour before sunset, the sky will be completely clear and then a cloud will appear and grow and grow, and then the sun will disappear behind it just at the perfect time for photography. It... more
