Kelvingrove

Owwww... I don't know why, but my back is hurting, and not in the normal places. Usually I get tense shoulders and an achy lower back, and lately I've had a specific pain thanks to lying on one side using the laptop, but today, it's like that specific one stretched out across my back, basically where the back strap of my bra rests, and I stretched and took some paracetamol earlier, and now I have a vodka-and-coke which I accidentally made a bit stronger than usual.

So, I was out this afternoon. My sister let me know about this event, a Photographic Survey of Kelvingrove Bandstand - I'm not entirely sure why, maybe just that it's in the area - and I thought, eh, why not? Half the people on the list didn't show up, so there were only five attendees. I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would, actually. They told us stuff about the history of the bandstand, and the plans for refurbishing it, and about the Royal Commission and what they actually do, and about why and how they take photos of buildings etc, with some pretty cool stuff about lighting. One in particular was a photo of a Pictish carved cross, as taken with a standard flash - which let you see the cross shape on the stone, and just a hint of carving in the centre - and one with eight flashes positioned at various heights each side - which showed that practically the whole surface was covered in carved patterns.

Then we wandered out to the Bandstand. And walked around and looked at it, and the photographer showed us a couple of things with his camera, and then we wandered around taking photos, and probably getting in each other's shots quite a lot.

I want to try and make a panorama of the amphitheatre, and pick a few shots to upload to the RCAHMS website - actually, one or both of these might make the cut if I mess about with an image editor.

I got the camera last year, but I've only just started taking it off auto and messing around with the settings. It's a little digital one, a lot newer than my old one... though actually, both of them were presents from my sister, the same one that told me about this event. Hmm.

And then I came home and collapsed, and tomorrow I plan on doing absolutely sod-all.