Dropped Mrs Tosh off at City airport tonight, and on the way back decided to take a slightly circuitous route, and try the new camera out on the inky, pitch blackness (really) of the Thames.
The camera, on automatic settings (but sans flash) caught this… It’s nothing like what I was seeing, which was mostly darkness punctuated by the lights and that aircraft you can make out on the fringes of the cloud.
But I like the fact the camera, presumably because of the long exposure, saw something quite different, and much more beautiful, perhaps a truer portrayal of the light pollution from the South East (that’s the Isle of Dogs to the left, Greenwich ahead and Deptford to the right). One day I’ll know how to take these deliberately.
There’s more on Flickr, including new cat pics, natch. And Hammersley’s been up to it as well, roaming Florence to impressive effect.
Actually, the trick is always to claim that you DID do this deliberately (which of course you did, since you both bought the camera capable of giving the result and pointed it in the right direction at the right time).
Thanks, Nick – that’s a good point. I also held the camera *very steadily* on top of a railing so it didn’t blur, and that’s an important aspect of photography too, right? Right?
I think I’m going to buy one of these when I go to the States in a couple of weeks. Absolutely gorgeous shots.
Neil, that’s a great pic, and much nicer than the ones I’ll be putting on my site once I get the bloody javascript to work. It looks cool with Safari on my iBook but mince on a PC (dunno if you remember me but you helped out with the interweb thing, 5ense, at Napier?) Cheers!