Out and About: Black Country Living Museum.

It was a visit to the Black Country Living Museum for today’s photo-meet. It really is such a good place to take photographs. You have historic housing, canals, industrial buildings from the late Victorian and early 20^th centuries and people dressed in the period costumes wandering around  – currently First World War – and all this on a 26 acre site. There is a pub with sawdust on the floor with great beer, a traditional fish and chip shop and a restaurant that serves Black Country faggots and peas. What’s not to like.

The other good thing is that when you go you automatically get a pass for the museum that last the whole of the year – entry free of charge.

The image below is of the supports for the mining wheel of the Racecourse colliery. It was a glorious day with blue skies and autumn sun. Walking past the supports I looked up and could see the sun behind the tower, silhouetting the thick, wooden support beams of the wheel, I stepped on to the edge of the shadows of the tower on the ground and moved back and forth to the side until I could just see the sun around the edge of the structure. A small aperture set on the camera then ensured that I got the starburst effect.

Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 18-135mm, 1/250sec, f/16.0