Meon Valley Plod 2006
Conditions on the day where rather poor, and I'm afraid the weather conditions made it rather difficult to get any good photo's this year. The major problem was caused by the overcast conditions meant that at the first site (South Farm) I could not get enough light to give a high enough shutter speed to prevent blurring on several images. I chose the second location on Butser hill, as according to the weather forecast conditions should have improved by then. As always the forecast was a little optimistic. The mist at this location meant that light levels where again rather low forcing me to use the flash to try and get some useable shots. Using the flash in the mist was perhaps not a wise choice. Several images where unusable due to the water droplets which had accumulated on the camera lens obscuring the runners faces, if it was not for the clanfield joggers supporter holding the umbrella to shield me from the rain it would have been more of a problem.
I had given some serious thought to not posting any images on the web this year as they are not of the quality I would have liked, but in the end decided to provide the useable images as you would at least have something to remind of why not to do the event next year! (So see you all next year). I have learnt a few lessons from trying to take photos in such bad conditions and have a few tricks up my sleeve for next year if the same conditions occur.
If you would like a FREE full size digital copy of the image, e-mail the image number to alandunkdenmead@aol.com, or use the request image link at the bottom of each photo. I will try respond to all request's within 48hrs. If I don't respond within 24hrs please allow a few more days before requesting the image again just in case I'm away. If I have still not responded, please try using a different e-mail account as your e-mail/my e-mail response could have been zapped by a spam filter some where in the e-mail chain.
All images can be freely used for personal use, running club websites and running club newsletter's etc. The copy write notice is only their to deter anyone from trying to sell my images commercially.
Alan Dunk, Denmead, Feb 2006
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