Obi3380 - B R. Obee - Photographer, Cover artist.

What started out as a good intention has led to a lot of slugs and snails getting extra fat on all the seedlings in my tiny greenhouse. We lost everything but potatoes (more on them next time) and one little radish. Now we are back with small sealed incubators and i’m please to say we have strong seedlings bursting through the soil. There are courgettes, tomatoes lettuce and 3 types of chillies, Jalepeno, Hotwax and Scotch Bonnets.

I submit to you the best photo I could take of the last pitiful radish to survive, I plucked him yesterday as I noticed some little crawling blighter has bored a hole in one side. Oh well.

Many thank to Mr Crow for joining me today in a long cycle through Cuxton

Check out his awesome band here: Crowman

English Heritage Reculver Towers

Taking advantage of my brothers visit to Kent I encouraged him to go for a drive with me and view some of the Kentish coastline. Starting at Whitstable we walked part of the shoreline taking a few shots of some boats before heading up to Herne Bay with rumours of a half sunken pier standing lonely in the sea.

A 4 minute exposure using the IR technique I had re-kindled my love for recently gave the silkiest finish to the sky and sea below. Next was the weather worn Clock Tower which was the first structure ever built purely for time keeping in Britain. This wind and sea battered Portland stone masterpiece stood defiant as though the more mother nature took of it the more character it would collect.

Over in the distance we see what looks like a church climbing slowly into the sea and decide in classic Goonies fashion to go get a closer look. All i can say is Reculver Towers was one very pleasant surprise. I don’t think I have ever been in a church (and once a fort) so close to the sea and so I wanted to do it justice with a black and white shot.

I think Margate shall be my next destination, might as well keep going in this direction, my enjoyment for capturing Kent’s landscapes clearly has not ended as I’d planned.

Peace

Reculver Towers

Herne Bay Clock Tower

Herne Bay Pier 280sec F4 Infrared

Whitstable Bay

Infra-red  approx 4 min exposure

Another shot of human traffic during the sweeps festivities.

Infra-Red Photography

approx 4 min exposure.

The rides were in motion during this exposure, maybe 200 people walked right past my camera. I love taking these pictures.

Infra-red photography. 4 minute exposure

Taken during the Morris dancing events in Rochester High street outside The Deaf Cat.

As the crowd watch the dancers we find a swirling mist of human traffic surrounds them creating an eye in their storm. A world of motion as one single ghostly image.

www.whatsonmedway.co.uk Rochester sweeps festival

Saturdays stroll through Rochester High street. Only took my pocket camera to just soak up some of the atmosphere as the festival kicked off. Enjoyed many a few ales accompanied with a very large homemade pork pie. Pure bliss. I submit to you one of the many Sweeps festival Morris dance groups. Pretty Grim

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Moon is at its nearest during a full moon this weekend.  5th, 6th May

It was either 1993 or 94, I was walking through Wimbledon common a while after sundown when I was struck by a sight that made me think the world was ending! Through the trees I could see what I thought was the moon crashing into the earth, It was abnormally large, and I truly mean large. I never had a camera then, told my folks when I got home, never was believed and forgot all about it. But guess what? Its a real event! Yes and the basic science behind it is simple, as the moon rotates around our earth it is sometimes  a lot nearer, and sometimes it happens on a full moon.

Well the good news for all you photography fans is that this Saturday and Sunday night around 21:30 [UK Time] you will get to see this celestial event as it passes onto our horizon. A good tripod, slightly higher ISO and the widest aperture should get you some great results. Don’t miss this, it will blow you away.

Peace