The O2 from Trinity Buoy Wharf
The O2 London dome by night pictured from Trinity Buoy Wharf with an Uber Boat in front
Lovely biscuits!! I’ve no idea where that phrase comes from but we’ve been saying that a lot indoors in the past couple of weeks. Just one of those random lockdown sayings that catches on! It applies very well to my photo from last night. I’d been talking to a friend recently about Trinity Buoy Wharf. It’s an area undergoing vast change with a huge residential building programme underway. It’s also becoming known for the arts and for artist workshops. It’s not too far away so I set off last night to explore, having no idea of what to expect but hoping to concentrate on the starburst effect of lights if I could find some. And the reward was this shot of the O2 dome over the Thames with an Uber Boat moored up at the pier on my side of the river.
The area is very much still a vast building site but it’s got a lot of potential and should be lovely place to live once it’s complete.
I learned an interesting fact about starburst photography yesterday which should appeal to anyone who doesn’t know this already. You can tell by the number of star points how many aperture blades are in the lens. In this case, if you look at the red single light points you can see there are 14. That’s because the lens I was using was the Canon 50mm 1.8 which has 7 aperture blades. If the number of aperture blades is odd, the total number of starpoints doubles but if the number is even they remain the same. So a lens with 8 blades will produce 8 starpoints. If you’re interested in watching the same video as I did, you can watch this YouTube video by Mike Smith How to get starbursts in your photos He’s brilliant at explaining things really concisely. I had captured starbursts before but wasn’t fully aware of why and last night was the first time I set out to deliberately experiment. So, I went to bed buzzing and happy that I’ve found another great location and it was Mission Successful!
Yesterday I also found out about tags on this blog. I hadn’t paid much attention to them previously but I now know that if you click on any of the tags you’re interested in at the foot of this post, it’ll bring up all other posts with the same tag. It means that I’ll pay a little bit more attention to them in the future so that readers can do that. You might know all this already but this is my first proper blog so I’m learning as I go. A few years ago I became really interested in Tudor history and thought that London was the perfect place to be to delve in deeply and learn all about it. I wrote a few blog posts but as I dug a little deeper and I realised that Tudor history is truly a horrible history stuffed full of torture, killings, burnings, disease and general blood and gore it sickened me so much to the point of nauseousness that I gave it up! I think I’ve definitely found my true passion in photography.
Which is a great time to say that if you haven’t found your ‘thing’ yet, just keep trying everything out and experimenting. If you have, let me know what it is.
Loren x