The Way I See Things

By JDO

I call this one "Sunset with added cherry-picker"

One evening last December I was driving home from Chipping Campden along Buckle Street, when I was perplexed to see flashing lights in the sky. As I got nearer they resolved themselves into a set of Christmas lights about 50 feet above the ground; it was only when I next went past in daylight that I could see that an ordinary room-sized Christmas tree had been put up on a cherry picker in the grounds of a business that fronts onto the main road at Ullington.

This year the cherry-picker Christmas tree is back presenting a driving hazard to the unwary spreading festive cheer across the Three Counties boundary - so clearly, it had to be blipped. While I was wandering about in the dusk looking for the best angle, one of my neighbours came past and stopped to make sure I was OK and hadn't broken down. When I explained what I was doing he said "Mad bugger," but whether he meant the owner of the tree or the person with the camera, I didn't quite like to ask...

I've put a few more conventional sunset shots on Flickr, starting with this one.

ISO 1600; 1/80 sec; f/5.6; 70-300 lens @ 70mm.

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