Wednesday Has Raced Around Again,

so first thing off to visit Duncan,

arriving at the nursing home, blue skies, and great news, Duncan was wide awake in the day room, he had breakfast there, but I can see why he does not like it in the day room and prefers his own room, some of the other guests were a little rowdy, as only the elderly can be with the onset of various age related aliments, we chatted away, until his lunch arrived and we said our farewells, 

out side the weather had taken a turn for the worst, driving home the odd spot of rain, 

in the afternoon as Diana was at work I had a play with a few more photographs, both of these started life as infrared prints that I had taken with one of my Panasonic Limix cameras model DMC GX8 which had the sensor replaced with a infrared one, 

and here they are, 

the camera on the left is the infrared converted one, on the right the normal camera, the reason for the remotes is if you want to take a long exposure and have two cameras taking pictures of the same scene in a different way, in my case one normal and one infrared, it is difficult not to have the cameras suffer from camera shake when touching and pressing both shutter buttons, so as well as the mounting rail, I use both cameras timers to give a 2 second delay in operating, note the difference in colour in the screens, as one camera 'sees' differently to the other, for more about infrared have a look here, 

I decided to take these two photographs along to the club this evening in the hope that one of the more experience members could explain to me how to correct the way that the wide angle lens makes the building look like they lean towards the centre of the picture, I had forgotten that tonight was the entry night for the competition, results to be announced next week, it was a forlorn hope, but as I did not bring any other photographs with me I entered these,

next time for my evening meal, but first a read of Private Eye, the latest issue arriving in the post this morning, 

"Cheers!", with a glass of milk, driving to the club tonight, where I had a real treat along with everyone else, to celebrate the clubs centenary a special presentation from award-winning photojournalist Rick Findler was given, what a life he has had! the audience was spellbound with Rick's insights and photographs, the more I listened the more I realised what unsung hero's photojournalist like Rick truly are, 

some of the conflicts he covered last night were:

Israel 2023

Hong Kong 2019

Syria: Raqqa 2017

Burundi 2016

Syria: Aleppo 2012-14

Somalia 2014

Libya 2011

plus a few other peacetime assignments, all absolutely fascinating, after his talk there was a raffle, and with no photographic skill whatsoever I won this:

I picked up Diana from work on the way back home, when we arrived Diana looked at the box and thought I had won a lens!

it was of course a lens coffee or cold drink mug!

no prizes for guessing who will be taking it to work tomorrow! we settled down, Diana with a coffee, myself with a very large spiced rum as we watched a episode of It Ain't Half Hot Mum after which we were both off to bed.