I am Here to Wonder

On a particularly clear night some time last year, I discovered that the stars seen from Pasir Ris were surprisingly bright for a heavily light-polluted city like Singapore. So some time in May on a new moon, I got out my flimsy tripod that I had received for free (and which died in Wales by freezing) and put my camera on it. This was my second time shooting stars, after trying it out in Taiwan  and ending up with some terrible pictures. I've made some improvements since, I think. I used a 50 mm prime and I know that's not a good choice for astrophotography but the widest aperture on my kit lens was and still is too small: f/1.8, 15 s, ISO 800, 50 mm, Nikon D610 Two months later, I accidentally caught the milky way! But I didn't (and still don't) quite know how to make it pop out: f/3.5, 25 s, ISO 500, 24-85@24 mm, Nikon D610 In November, I decided to make a personal commemoration of Armistice Day which falls on 11 November. It's not celebrat...

29 December 2015 - 1 January 2016 We stayed in Caerllan cottage, a small National Trust cottage in Llandysul, Ceredigion. As this was in mid Wales; the scenery was decidedly different from Pembrokeshire in the south which I visited on a school trip in 2013, especially in winter. There weren't many animals to see in winter except birds, sheep and ponies. We thought we could catch a glimpse of some dolphins but found none. There were, however, a fathomless multitude of stars which was great because I'd just upgraded my camera to the star-shooting D610.