Waiting For A Bus

Today was an... "interesting" day.

It started off well enough; I saw the kids off to school, chatted with Marie for a while and then it was time to head off to the airport. So I got in the car and drove there, then settled in to enjoy the airport lounge (a pleasant side-effect of the BMI takeover, and not one that is likely to last beyond August.

It was there that I noticed that my flight from Edinburgh to London was delayed, quite substantially.

Time dragged on a bit, and the plane eventually took off about an hour and a half late. By the time I got into Heathrow, my connecting flight had closed its doors and I had been booked onto the same flight tomorrow.

To be fair to BA, they booked me into a very reasonable hotel, and arranged three meals to cover my time here.

This photo was taken on my phone using a little app called HDR Camera, while I was waiting for the bus to take me to the hotel. The idea of the program is that it doesn't just take one picture, it takes three. A normal one, a very over-exposed one and an under-exposed one. The over-exposed picture shows you the detail from the dark areas of the scene, the under-exposed ones the details from the bright areas of the scene. And the clever part is how you merge them all together.

I subsequently brought it into Adobe Photoshop Touch to darken it a little, resize and sharpen it. I think that the HDR Camera did its job, presenting you with more detail than a normal picture would (but still much less than the eye is capable of seeing).

Anyway, that's today. Let's see how things go tomorrow!