my name is mwd: photos

A shot of one of the dishes at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. I dashed out last night to try catch the sun setting behind it, but the clouds had other ideas. Another day, but I quite liked this one.

It was quite a challenging shoot because of the cloud - either you exposed for the sky and the dish was lost (which it is a bit here) or you exposed for the cloud and the highlights all blew out. The colours were lovely also, orange on the bottom, blue higher up, but ultimately they made the photo too noisy, which is why I went with a mono shot to let the eye find the dish.

I converted the tank bag on my motorcycle to a camera bag using hand cut bits of packaging foam, which makes quick jaunts like this much easier. To know exactly what the sun would be doing I used this website. It just can’t account for cloud alas.