On Friday I went to Ashmore, a village in Dorset, to photograph their midsummer festival, which is called Filly Loo.
The festival takes place around the village pond, a dew pond which supposedly goes back to before Roman times. The festival itself seems to go back a very long time too, and is a very enjoyable occasion, almost like being in Thomas Hardy's day: http://www.web-options.com/FL2008/ After this I went over to Stonehenge for the solstice, and will post a gallery later. These 2 events were my first serious attempt to use 2nd-curtain slow-synch flash, so I made a lot of technical errors, but it's a useful technique on a wet midsummer's eve, and I'm starting to get the hang of it. Comments welcome, of course. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
