Light from the setting sun

Light from the setting sun

I went out to the lake around the corner to try and get some shots of birds today. unfortunately I arrived too late and the sun was in the wrong position. I did manage a few decent pics though.

Contrail

I experimented with the camera settings to get the above image. This was taken at 1/1000 of a second which produced a nice silohette with a lot of detail in the trees. The colouring of the sky was also satisfactory and I was surprised but pleased that the contrail is so sharp.

White swan

The swan was captured using my telephoto lens. I subsequently applied the “landscape” picture style in Digital Photo Professional (DPP). I did not change the white balance at all, this is the auto setting.

And once again, I found the cartoon below on the Humor Matters website. Have a good Christmas Eve or in Swedish: Julafton.

 

Evening in Linköping

Evening in Linköping

Today was a dead loss. I didn’t get any work done. I did however complete the inventory of my house for the upcoming move. Also moved one step closer to possibly making my first solo flight in January.

To brighten up your evening, read “Major Merger” below. This comes from a site called Humor Matters.

Continuing the current trend of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, it was announced today at a press conference that Christmas and Chanukah will merge. An industry source said that the deal had been in the works for about 1300 years. While details were not available at press time, it is believed that the overhead cost of having twelve days of Christmas and eight days of Chanukah was becoming prohibitive for both sides. By combining forces, we’re told, the world will be able to enjoy consistently high-quality service during the 15 Days of Chrisnukah, as the new holiday is being called. Massive layoffs are expected, with lords a-leaping and maids a-milking being the hardest hit. As part of the conditions of the agreement, the letters on the dreydl, currently in Hebrew, will be replaced by Latin, thus becoming unintelligible to a wider audience. Also, instead of translating to A great miracle happened there, the message on the dreydl will be the more generic Miraculous stuff happens. In exchange, it is believed that Jews will be allowed to use Santa Claus and his vast merchandising resources for buying and delivering their gifts. In fact, one of the sticking points holding up the agreement for at least three hundred years was the question of whether Jewish children could leave milk and cookies for Santa, even after having eaten meat for dinner. A breakthrough came last year when Oreos were finally declared to be kosher. All sides appeared happy about this development except for Santa’s dentist. He then closed the press conference by leading all present in a rousing rendition of Oy, Come all Ye Faithful.