WEATHER AND WALLS

What a day was yesterday, not fit to put the dog out! Though it's advisable unless one wants to spend an hour with a shovel, mop and bucket.

Thunder storm after thunder storm tracked through. this created some really lovely light. Something I found difficult to appreciate till I got home and looked at the exposures, loads of rubbish, one or two acceptable or at least recoverable. Enough for today's post.....I Hope! Difficult stuff to photograph is rain, I'll give the matter some serious thought. Reminds me of a little ditty.

'There are holes in the sky that let rain in,

These holes are small,

That's why rain is thin.' Spike Milligan.

BRIGHT IN PATCHES The observant among you will have noticed the walls round here. They are dry stone walls, no mortar, basically two rows of rough stone, the gap in the middle is filled with the chippings and waste stone, through stones are laid according to the whim of the waller and the whole finished off with a single row of capping stones. Every three feet of wall contains approximately a ton of stone and a skilled waller lays around a yard a day.

AS YOU CAN SEE THEY DON'T LAST FOR EVER Having said that these are hundreds of years old, repaired regularly or otherwise depending on grants, the wealth of the land owner or his propensity for hard labour.

RAIN IN THE DISTANCE Sorry about the foreground, could be a wee bit sharper. The grassy hummocks are the remains of old lead workings, Mostly Calcite and Flour Spar waste left when the Galena was extracted. Galena is not pure lead but a lead oxide, Hey rusty lead!

NOW IT'S RAINING.

Finally, though I use Olympus stuff, I have no really strong feelings on brands. I defy anyone to look at an A4 print and tell me whether it was taken on a Fuji, Canon, Nikon, Olympus or, with modern image interpolation software, a mobile phone. I have always had Olympus cameras and am far too set in my ways to learn to use anything else. That said Canikonites, do this..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Great is the E-3, you can shoot all day in the rain.

You will need a new camera a day, mind you!!

Seriously they are water proof, even mud proof, this one has also been dropped, though I expect even the most diehard Olympus representative would baulk at the latter treatment. Provisos; don't change lenses in the rain and only Pro rated and Top Pro Zuiko lenses are waterproof.

That's all. I may be busy with the Ark today but fear not I'll still take some snaps. All the best.