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Sheffield BHF Santa Jog 2011
December 11, 2011 | 
Author Today was the Sheffield Santa Jog, this is a nice 0.5mile jog around the block twice, making it a nice easy fun run for anyone to help raise money for the British Heart Foundation, and usually resulting in some great outfits, and the surrealness of several hundred Santas running around Sheffield. Though possibly not as surreal as when we did the promo shoot for this back in the baking heat of August, on a small beach in the middle of landlocked Sheffield…
Anyway, here’s a selection of pictures from today…
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Discovering Ireland
did nothing but to remind even an outsider about the troubles, and the past bubbling below the surface. I know Belfast is much more than this, but it did always feel that around each corner was a reminder of the past.
On this visit to Ireland though, I made a promise I was taking the time out to go to the Giants Causeway, seemed a shame to get so close & not actually go there. Along the way though we made a discovery...
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World Championship Hen Racing
We discovered this last year via “Rory & Paddy’s Great British Adventure”, another of these weird and wonderful competitions that happen all around the country, usually at the other end of the country you really can’t justify going to, only this one wasn’t. It was at the Barley Mow at Bonsall, hidden away behind Matlock Bath, so only twenty minutes away…
So on the first Saturday of August, the sleepy village of Bonsall is awoken as the whole world descends upon them, competitors from as far & wide as Bonsall to Bakewell, some foreigners even turned up from Nottinghamshire too. You can bring your own hen, or if you don’t have one, there’s a local “Henterprise” where you can rent a hen to race.
The competition attracts young & old, on the right is “R” from “The States”, a man of few words, and even stranger than the Nottinghamshire lot. Read the rest of this entry »
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Basic guide to night time car photography
demonstrates. Shot with a Nikon D3100 (their current 'entry' consumer SLR), taken in manual mode, with the aperture set at an 'open' F3.5 which in the depths of London at the night equalled a shutter speed of 8 seconds. This has given plenty of time for the passing traffic to give those wonderful light trails, which along with light bouncing off nearby shops & streetlights have nicely lit the car too.
Now I can here some brains melting at the back, apertures? manual? shutter speeds?
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BHF Zumbathon Event
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