In yet another effort to keep myself busy, I’ve ordered some EL Wire from The Glow Company.  I thought it might be fun to play with in a long exposure shot.

The effects you can get are neat, but I’m not sure of the practical applications yet.  Will need to play around more I suspect.

The London Roller Girls hosted the European championship tournament this past weekend with 12 teams (10 UK, 2 German) descending on Earls Court for a bit of a brawl.  Obviously we (being myself, Mitesh & Neal) were there to take some shots.

The venue was huge compared to what we’re used to, so there was lots of room to move about and the lighting was much more even.  Also, since there were so many matches to watch there was plenty of time to fool around with camera settings and get everything just right.  All of that resulted in what I feel are some of the best Roller Derby shots I’ve taken so far.

Here’s a couple of my favourites.

In addition to the usual “rest are in the gallery“, I’ve gone ahead and set up a Flickr account so that I can post a few more shots that I think derby fans (or the skaters themselves) may be interested in seeing.  Stuff that I wouldn’t normally post to my gallery in other words.  Anyways, those photos are located here.

Well, it’s been a crappy week.  I’m optomistic that it will get better, but you never know.

In the meantime, my little camera friend is keeping me busy.  I went out with Neal and his father in hopes that we could get some nice sunset shots of the QE II bridge.  I’m not really one to get overly excited about bridges, but Neal offered to drive and I needed to get out of the house, so here we are.

The first two are HDR images and the third is done with a single off camera flash & shoot through umbrella. Nothing too exciting here.

I had some free time the other day so I thought I’d try my hand at making a few water droplets.  There were quite a few shots that turned out ok, but to be honest they all looked about the same.  Here are three that I quite liked (and I would usually link to the gallery here, but I’ve only uploaded 3 images so there’s no real need).

Another great night out provided by the lovely London Rollergirls.  This time it was a double header event with the London teams hosting competitors from Leeds & Birmingham.

The final scores weren’t all that pretty for the visiting teams, but it was an entertaining evening none the less.  A couple of shots from the night, and more in the gallery!