I went to Clevedon today with my sister and niece.  We got very comprehensively rained on.

1450 was in steam at the railway today, pulling the two auto coaches (which are lovely!)  We had a busy day on the telecoms side of things today though, so I only managed time to get a shot of the last run of the day as it pulled in to the station.

Being a heritage railway, there’s a lot of rusty old bits and bobs lying around.  I like taking photos of rusty peeling paint (looks a little like autumn leaves) but I do wish there was a little less of it where the public can see it.

Vroom Vroom VVRRROOOOM!!!eleven!

I’ve had this shot in my head for about 2 weeks.  Now that I’ve actually shot it, I think it came out quite well.

I bought a new lens today.  I went on a lunchtime photowalk to test it out, and got on fairly well.  It’s got a couple of quirks which will take some getting used to (mostly things like the zoom ring turns the “wrong” way, and it’s got a zoom lock which I keep remembering to turn on, but forgetting to turn off)  I’m quite pleased with the quality of the photos in general.  It’s a little soft around the edges when it’s at the widest end of its range, but it performs nicely at the full zoom.

It’s early days, but it’s nice to have my dslr back in the game.

This is a temporary post, and will only be here for a couple of hours.  We’re trying to pick a domain name for the site to go with the ##juggle irc channel on freenode.  Which one of these 4 is your favourite?  Just click on the domain name to vote.

The poll is now closed, the chosen domain has been registered. Watch this space

When I’ve collected enough votes to make some kind of decision, I’ll delete this post.

I’d have posted this on jugglingedge.com but the html parser won’t let me use the html required…

While I was set up and shooting for this weeks photo challenge, I took this.  It doesn’t fit the brief for the challenge, but I like it anyway, which is why it’s here and not over there.

In other news, my 18-135mm lens has kicked the bucket (which is why I’ve not been shooting all that much recently) it’s probably not economical to fix, so I’ve been looking round for replacements.  I think I’ve found one, and if it’s not chucking it down at lunchtime tomorrow I think I’m going shopping.  So hopefully, I’ll be back in the game properly again later in the week!

Jonathan and I went for another lunchtime photowalk today, this time around the streets of Clifton Down in Bristol.  I bought a lightbulb holder to use as a current limiter for the battery charger I’m building – and Jonathan bought several packs of parchment paper for making wedding invitations out of.

This weeks challenge was called Into The Light – so taking it literally, I took this photo of a lightbulb.

Another lunchtime photowalk.  This one was a little more productive.