Friday, 21 August 2009

Sunset Strip and the crazy hexagons.

It’s been a week of car problems and map problems most of which are pretty much resolved now, the car has a complicated air-conditioning and cooling system and in this weather some degree of fiddling about getting the inside of the car cool and keeping the coolant in the engine was required.

The map on the other hand, the 1849 coloured map of Ramsgate, click on the link to view http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/map1849/ is something fo a task in tems of an affordable reprint that wont fade.

I went over to the north part of the isle on Wednesday evening and spent a fair amount of time trying to capture the sunset with the camera, for the results click on the links.

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/sunset/id4.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/sunset/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/sunset/index.htm

I will delete the worst of them when I get around to it, for some reason my camera would like to make the sun hexagonal, possibly something to do with the lens aperture.
No wonder Turner liked our sunsets, this one was not particularly spectacular as sunsets here go but still amazing enough.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousAugust 22, 2009 11:55 am

    Wow thank you-these are amazing-JMW Turner said the skies over thanet are the lovliest in all europe,and happen he was right!

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Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.