Today is Whit Friday and in Saddleworth that means only one thing – the Band Contest. It’s often described as “the greatest free show on earth” (providing you like Brass Bands).
I sat outside to drink my coffee earlier as the weather is unusually sunny. Whit Friday is well known for raining heavily here. Even in the amazing weather of 2018 when it was dry for months, we had a wet Whit Friday Band Contest. Anyway, this year it promises to be a dry one and I can already see the coaches driving around the village.
Because I want to get off to watch/photograph some of the bands shortly, especially as my wife is playing this year, I’ll keep this brief. I did though want to share this image which I recently shot.
It’s of the Cotton Grass on Saddleworth Moor and it’s done using an Infrared Camera. The camera is an old Olympus EM5 that I had converted some 8 or 9 years ago. I’ve largely ignored it in recent years but having shot this a few days ago with the Leica 12-60 lens from my G9, I’m extremely impressed. The image quality is very sharp, and the camera is resolving a lot of detail.
That set me on a path of reprocessing some of my old Olympus EM5 images with the latest software and they look great. If you want to know more, I’ve published a small piece in this month’s newsletter which is out tomorrow. You can sign up on my Newsletter Archive page or you can read the newsletter (also on this page) on Sunday 4th June.
I also want to mention that my latest book “Mastering Adobe Photoshop Luminosity Masks” is now published on Amazon and my Lenscraft website. It’s only £6.99 and the PDF version is over 220 pages long.
I hope you like the photo and have a great weekend.
The Lightweight Photographer 