I went up with the family to Nottingham in August in order to see where my eldest would be studying from September. As usual, I took the camera. Although the trip wasn’t about photography, I did manage to sneak a few shots in.

The first two are of what  they call ‘trams’. Quite a novelty for me as the only ones I’ve seen are in Europe. The first one was a panning shot to emphasise a bit of movement as the tram drove past me. The second was a zoom burst; hand-held on a slower shutter speed, shot is taken whilst zooming the 24-105 F4 L.

A couple of views; I’m not sure what the domed building is but it’s right in the city centre. Unfortunately, there was a big fairground ride in front of it so I couldn;t get a shot of the whole building, so focused on the roof against the blue sky.

The second shot was where we parked. The original shot was taken at a focal length of 32mm so had converging verticals which I corrected in Photoshop.

Time for some fun as the youngest wasn’t too interested in the uni facilities or the shopping opportunities (apart from the sweet shop). This was the fairground ride in front of that lovely domed building.

The first shot was taken sufficiently slowly to get some panning movement. The second one was ratcheted down to 1/20sec in order to get lots of movement to make an abstract shot.

Then, as we walked from the city centre back towards the uni, time for a few snatched architectural abstracts. The first shot is a detail shot of the car park building above. I’m not sure what the windowed building was.

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