What a difference a day makes

Early Morning Daventry Heartlands

Early Morning Daventry Heartlands

I took these two pictures at about the same time on successive days.  Unfortunately, at this time of year the light is not great and so the pictures that I take on my Ixus can be a bit grainy.

The reason I decided to publish them on my blog though was that I thought that they illustrated how a familiar place can look quite different even at the same time of year.  The viewpoint is almost the same, but I think the feel of the two pictures couldn’t be much more different.

This is an area that I pass most mornings, and, I guess most people just pass industrial estates by without much of a second glance.  However, I like to look for the photo opportunities in the things that I see every day and which most people wouldn’t look at.  In some places the pictures are there waiting to be taken, finding something in the mundane I think takes a different sort of skill.

I also think that modern industrial estates can be quite nicely designed, especially when compared to those built a few decades ago where all trees were banned and nobody had ever heard of landscaping!  Walking through the estate I often see a variety of birds, rabbits and even muntjac as well as a variety of flora, all providing various types of photo opportunities.

In order to stand any chance of taking a picture before 8am in December I had to bump the ISO up to 400 (which adds even more grain), the settings for these were 5.8mm, f/2.8, 1/500 secs for the top picture (mmm… maybe ISO200 would have been a possibility – it hadn’t been a few minutes earlier) and 5.3mm, f/2.8, 1/50 secs for the bottom picture (I think this also illustrates the difference in the light levels).