Spider

The last day in August turns out to be a glorious summers day which is a rare occurence this summer here in Essex where I live. If you saw my earlier posts about the local  Airshow you will notice that the weather nearly let us down. However, today was wonderful with long spells of warm sunshine so much needed after so many dreary days. The garden was the best place to be today. What caught my eye glistening in the sunshine was a big spiders web just by the door. Down came the spider from his hiding hole to catch an unwary little fly.  Having watched this for a short while  I decided it was an opportunity not to be missed and got the camera out. What was really intriguing was that I was watching the spider from underneath, and not looking down on his back.

Garden Spider 

Well I think its a garden spider, if anyone would like to correct me on this one please do. By the time the camera was in place this little spider had consumed his prey and looked like it was wrapping it up and then sort of pushed it out in a little ball. I am no nature freak but this episode was absolutely fascinating. Here is the photo I shot of this spider with my Nikon Coolpix. With the sun shining directly on the web the little ball here looks like a blue gemstone.

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Red Arrows at Clacton Air Show

The flying program at the Clacton Airshow 2010 included the famous RAF aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. There is nothing quite so breathtaking as watching this display team whiz through the skies and perform their aerobatics. 

Red Arrows at Clacton Airshow on Youtube

Here is a short video on Youtube of the Red Arrows aerobatics display at the 2010 Airshow in Clacton.

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Clacton Air Show 2010

The Claton Airshow still manged to attract loads of visitor this year despite the weather, although the numbers were slightly down on previous years. Each year the show attracts not only the aircraft hobbyists but also families with children. As the airshow is a free event it makes a great day out for all family, there’s always something for everyone. Airshow, sand, sea and funfair!

A chance for the young to see a model of a  Spitfire close up.

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Clacton Airshow images

First day of the Clacton Airshow 2010  provided a great opportunity to take out the digital camera to shoot some pictures of the days proceedings.  Here are a couple of pictures taken of the Red Arrows aerobatics display on day one of the airshow. 

and….

Notice the heavy cloud and murky sea, not really the weather you expect in August.

All pictures were taken with a point and shoot digital camera, a Canon Powershot A560.

Clacton Airshow Day 2

Maybe just a slight improvement on the weather conditions for day 2 of the Clacton Airshow with some bright patches and a little bit of blue sky but not for long. The crowds again have gathered to watch the Red Arrows display at 12.30 today and the fly past.

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First Day at the Airshow

Althougth the rest of  East Anglia suffered some torrential downpours, down here around the coast of Clacton the weather remained relatively good enough for the Claton Airshow 2010 to go ahead. The weather was by now means the best, but at least good enough for the gathered crowds to enjoy the flying displays.

Here is a short video on Youtube, a small part of the Red Arrows display showing off their aerobatic skills.

Click HERE to watch the video.

The camera used in this instance is to take the clips is a point and shoot digital camera, a Canon Powershot A560 with a 4x Optical zoom.

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Clacton Airshow

Today is the day of the actual Clacton Airshow, a 2 day annual event that takes place along the beach and greensward in Clacton, with a full air display taking place over the sea during the afternoon . An event that in 2009 drew over 100,000 visitors. This year is the 19th year of the show. Each year there is a full flying program of wing walkers, Battle of Britain planes and others and the biggest draw, a display by the aerobatics team of the Royal Aiforce the Red Arrows.

Clacton Airshow 2010

The weather here in August has not been very kind to all the holiday makers and today is no exception. With heavy clouds, wind and the constant threat of rain does not bode well for the air display this afternoon. We are all keeping our fingers tighly crossed and hoping for just a little break in the clouds with perhaps a little sun to brighten up the day.

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Full Moon

After a day of very strong winds, heavy clouds, sunshine and showers as the night came we managed to get a peek of a full moon amongst the heavy clouds.

Taking a picture of the moon with a  digital camera is not such an easy task. It needs just a little preparation beforehand to get a reasonable shot.

Shooting at the Moon

In this instance the camera used is a Nikon Coolpix P90, a 12megapixel camera with a 24x Optical zoom. In order to use the zoom successfully I took note of Yorgo’s advice in his article and set up a tripod as well as using a timer.

Catching the moon without cloud cover was a game of patience, as well as dedication for it was pretty cold outside. Here is the result below.

Full Moon

A shot to show the heavy cloud cover.

Unfortunately the cloud cover was too dense  and the temperature outside too cold to sit around for too long outside in order to do shots with the other cameras. Something worth doing perhaps another night.

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Shooting at Rainbows in Essex

Using Lightroom and making a few adjustments you can dramatically change the look and the feel of any photograph. The photograph of the rainbow in Essex looks very different from the original after having a few adjustments made Lightroom.

Before:

After:

The second photo certainly looks more dramatic. Which one do you prefer?

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Shooting at Rainbows in Essex

Someone forgot to tell the weather man that it is still August and that the days should be nice and warm with lots of sunshine every day, warm evenings and only occassional rain at night. So far this August we have had strong to gale force winds, thunderstorms, lots of heavy cloud most days, rain and even rainbows.

Driving home in Essex we managed to capture this picture of  a rainbow last night. The camera used was a Canon Powershot A560 with a  4x Optical zoom. Its a very easy to use point and shoot camera takes good, clear pictures even at speed in a moving car. Not one of the latest Canon point and shoot digital cameras, nevertheless the quality of the images is very good even in varying conditions.

Shooting at the Moon

Tonights Ycademy training call set exercise is to shoot at the moon. Hopefully here in Essex the clouds will part long enough to take a shot at the big sphere in the sky. If all goes well we will use the Canon Powershot  A560, the Nikon Coolpix P90 and the old Fuji Finepix to compare images.

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Greek Church Stock Photo

Following upon the previous post, the Thursday Ycademy training session involved learning a few more Photoshop techniques in anticipation of the new Photo Media Stock site. We practiced  some new techniques on a photo of a Greek Church taken by Yorgo Nestoridis. Techniques were used to enhance the photo image: with a few simple adjustments certain features on the photo were enhanced. 

Photo Media Stock

Photos to be loaded to the new Photo Stock site need to be of the highest quality. Photo & Media Stock is a venture undertaken by Ycademy and the August Ycademy Online Seminar participants, to provide high quality, sharp and well focused  media stock photos.

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