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A tree on the Wimpole Hall estate.

I had a good walk around there with the dog today. More info on Wagipedia.

About six years ago I did some brief experiments with 'light painting': photography using long exposures where you move the light sources around while the shutter's open:

Click the image for a couple more...

My friend Karen has done this on a rather larger scale, for example by running around bits of Thetford Forest in the middle of the night carrying big lights:

But she's also just pointed me at a lovely example of what you can do by bringing this up to date and using iPads as the light source. Making Future Magic is a creation of the Dentsu London agency, and is beautifully done. Worth clicking the full-screen button.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

I often bemoan the rather low quality (by today's standards) of the camera on my iPhone 3GS, but I still occasionally get some interesting shots with it.

The post-processing was done on the iPhone using the rather nice Camera+ app.

Pretty abstract for me, eh?

There’s an app called ‘Camera for iPad’ which allows your iPhone to be used as a remote camera for an iPad, which doesn’t have a camera of its own. Quite fun. It shows a ‘viewfinder’ on the iPad, so of course I pointed the camera at that.

So this is a view, taken on an iPhone, of a view on an iPad of what an iPhone is seeing when the iPhone camera is pointed at the iPad. The kitchen ceiling light is reflected in the iPad screen.

Tilly explored the limestone shoreline at Birling Gap one evening recently. I used to play here as a child.

Normally, I would expect to do some post-processing of the photo to create an effect like this... but it's much more pleasing when nature provides the monochrome for you! These intrepid kayakers were paddling peacefully past at this point, but earlier there was a dramatic and eerie sound as they cracked their way through the ice. My own kayak is inflatable, so not much good for icebreaking!

More pictures of the Newnham/Grantchester area in the snow can be found here.

...when you could be taking me for a walk?

Digging through some photos from a few months back, I found this rather fine Nash Ambassador, spotted deep in the Michigan farming countryside.

There have been a couple of beautiful autumnal mornings in Newnham recently.

More misty pics here.