The circus came to town! Well, actually to Hanover, NH. The Big Apple Circus comes around every July. My parents take us all to the circus and then out to eat. It is a wonderful time. It is good to have traditions like this. The kids look forward to it for a long time and frankly, so do I!
It is hard to choose a favorite act, there are so many good ones. This year I think I would say it was the jugglers. They were fantastic keeping large numbers of clubs in the air for extremely long periods of time with great precision with apparent ease. They never goofed the whole time. The four of them just kept moving around the ring and the air stayed filled with flashing clubs. Amazing.
I especially like how the clubs appeared in this photo. The blurred effect really shows the motion. I don’t usually take photos at the circus as the lighting is too hard and I don’t want to use a flash. My new Fuji FinePix E900 that I got last year has much greater sensitivity. I gave it a shot using a wide aperture and slow shutter under compensating a bit to adjust for the bright lights. I captured several good images including this one.
Do NOT buy the Fuji FinePix E900 digital camera. See this update.
There is actually a fourth juggler hidden by the crowd in the middle. You can see his clubs moving away from us. During this technique, the woman juggler in the center would periodically reach into the middle of the flowing clubs and pluck one out. She would then send it somewhere else changing the pattern.
81째F/66째 Mostly sunny this week with 9″ of rain in two thunderstorms.
Walter Jeffries Tinker, Tailor… A bit eclectic & a tad eccentric, polymath, quantum mechanic & Farmer. Also lucky at cards.
Methinks Walter wanted to run away with the circus when he was a wee lad. No?
I did. :) (Now you’ll wonder, did he just ‘want to run away with the circus’ or does he mean he ‘did run away with the circus’? Then the question is did Walter ever come back… :) )
Seriously though, as if I ever am, I did help out at the circus several summers. There was a small one that came to our town and I helped setup and break down. Helpers got to see a lot of neat stuff plus they got free passes. A bonus for sure but I would have done it without the passes too. :)
Hi Walter,
A lot of your posts about the Fuji FinePix E900 have a statement in them somewhere saying “Do NOT buy the Fuji FinePix E900 digital camera. See this update.”
However, all the links to the update are broken – they go back to a blogger address. Do you think you could fix them so they point to the correct address?
Cheers
Fixed. The link you want is this one. A big part of the problem is the lens setup sucks dust into the camera which ruins it. I’m not the only one with that problem with that camera.