I have been pretty bad lately at posting about all of the things that I've been up too so there is a lot to catch up, but thought I'd start with the most recent which was a trip to Bristol this Sunday just gone.
We went to cheer along a friend who was running in the Bristol 10K. The first picture is a quick snap of all the runners lining up to get to the start. I have no idea how many took part but it must have been thousands.
It was a pretty chilly morning so to amuse myself I thought I'd have a go at trying to capture the event in photographs. I've never really taken my camera to a sporting event before and it was a lot harder to get decent pictures than I imagined. The shot above is of the race winner, I hadn't really thought about what I was doing and so it's not good by any stretch of the imagination he appeared and ran by before I had a chance to think about framing a shot. 
Had a little more success with this one, which I got by crouching down and sticking my camera through the railings. Still not great though, may be I need to think about cropping it differently or something. 
I then had the idea of trying to capture a close in shot of some legs running by. I had lots of attempts at this and none of them were successful, this one was the best of the bunch.
We went to cheer along a friend who was running in the Bristol 10K. The first picture is a quick snap of all the runners lining up to get to the start. I have no idea how many took part but it must have been thousands.
It was a pretty chilly morning so to amuse myself I thought I'd have a go at trying to capture the event in photographs. I've never really taken my camera to a sporting event before and it was a lot harder to get decent pictures than I imagined. The shot above is of the race winner, I hadn't really thought about what I was doing and so it's not good by any stretch of the imagination he appeared and ran by before I had a chance to think about framing a shot. 
Had a little more success with this one, which I got by crouching down and sticking my camera through the railings. Still not great though, may be I need to think about cropping it differently or something. 
I then had the idea of trying to capture a close in shot of some legs running by. I had lots of attempts at this and none of them were successful, this one was the best of the bunch.My favourite shot from the 10K is this next one. As I mentioned there were thousands of people taking part, but there were also thousands lining the route cheering, shouting encouragements and clapping the runners on to the finish line. 
Before I leave the running, there were plenty of people completing the route in costume, here are a couple of my favourites. 
Even though my photographic efforts were poor it was a fun morning and I would definitely go to something like this again, if only to try and get some better photos :)
Before I leave the running, there were plenty of people completing the route in costume, here are a couple of my favourites. 
Even though my photographic efforts were poor it was a fun morning and I would definitely go to something like this again, if only to try and get some better photos :)After a morning stood out in the cold it was time to retire to the pub for a few games of pool. 
Sadly my pool skills are at about the same level as my photography skills and I got my butt kicked, lol 
My excuse for poor photography this time was the bad lighting conditions (that and the fact that I was distracted by the nasty niffs coming from the nearby gents loo, eeeeuuugh!!) 
It was a fun way to spend the day though.
Sadly my pool skills are at about the same level as my photography skills and I got my butt kicked, lol 
My excuse for poor photography this time was the bad lighting conditions (that and the fact that I was distracted by the nasty niffs coming from the nearby gents loo, eeeeuuugh!!) 
It was a fun way to spend the day though.
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