Slovakia - scenery, skiing and a little girl being angry at the hotel.

The above two are some shots that just about worked. I was trying to track skiers as they whizzed past me - stood outside, high shutter, high iso in the breaktimes I had in the conference.





Some landscapes which come out crisper than the rest (still handheld, Im afraid) and a little girl who was happily telling a stanchion of the hotel that whatever it was doing, it was doing it wrong :)

Just one photo from 12th March lunchtime...

And this was it... meh, clichéd.

In the Marketplace

Photos taken in Gloucester Green, Oxford, during lunch while the market is running. For a number of these, I was aiming to get some good technical shots as well as try to capture something interesting. I was definitely starting to have fun learning how to make certain shots happen with the camera's settings :)


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Macro #2

Second macro taken on the first morning, not quite as sharp as I'd like, but I am hand-holding these shots.

First! (by preference)

This is the first shot I tried to take with the camera, first thing the morning after I got it. This was taken in my back garden, macro setting zoomed in to the lenses fullest (55mm) and just as the sun peaked over the garden wall. I don't know if it is a bad thing that the part where the sun reflects most brightly on the leaf is blown out, but I'll just chalk it up to better luck next time.

(What you cannot see, is that I am being beset by neighbourhood cats, who think, possibly quite rightly, that I am a soft touch and would feed them if they pestered me enough.)