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Well, despite the depressingly gloomy greyness outside, I just popped out to photograph the Sonning gravestones. Sadly the unknown(s) who put them there did so with little consideration towards photographic grouping - the place to stand to get decent photos of them would be in the middle of the road. I'm just not quite dedicated enough to my art to risk getting deaded for it, so my photos will be strictly to record the event rather than possessing any artistic value of their own.

Oh, and note to self: When you've been taking time-exposures (as you were at the weekend) and have had the camera set on bulb[*], set it back again straight away otherwise you'll forget, and will take a whole load of photos at erroneous shutter speeds next time you use the camera.

Other note to self: when you're thinking that the shutter speeds don't quite sound right, check whether you've left the thing on bulb instead of just feeling a bit puzzled and checking that the light meter seems to be working ok.

[*] The bulb (or 'B') setting on a camera means that the shutter stays open as long as you keep your finger on the button. Ordinarily you'd use this to take long (greater than one second on my camera) exposures in dark conditions. Under normal use, my camera carefully calculates for me how long the shutter should stay open (typically today it was between 1/125 and 1/30 second). However, if the camera's on 'B' it completely ignores the shutter speed - and the time taken to manually press and release the button is much longer than 1/125 of a second :( This will result in blurred and/or overexposed photos.