This meant that there was an awful lot going on and the town was really busy! It was a bit of a treat to see the Red Arrows http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/ as well and they performed a half hour show on the Saturday. It was a great chance to have another play with the Tamron 70-300 Di which performs well as long as the weather's bright and I can stick to a small aperture.
There wasn't really a moment to swap lenses to a wide angle which meant I couldn't get a decent photo of some of the larger displays they do. It was good practice at panning and trying to follow the action though and I was able to get some decent photos of the planes as they zipped overhead.
I was pretty happy with this picture, there was a bit of luck involved in getting the right moment but that's why cameras have continuous drive! If I'm going to be picky, the plane on the left isn't as sharp as I'd like but it wasn't very high above me at all and really going some so I think I'll forgive the camera that one.
After watching the Red Arrows, we had a little sit further up the hill and took a couple of photos of the view, this is still with the Tamron and shows of the coastline along to the East. It really is a nice bit of England and famous for the quantity of fossils that turn up, we didn't go collecting but straight after a landslide is the best time by all accounts.
After spending the day in Lyme Regis, we headed down the coast to Beer which is more of a working coastal town than Lyme Regis and has a much smaller and rockier beach. The weather was also less good (although not Beer's fault) and although it was still warm it looked like it was about to rain for much of the day.
It was a chance to use the Sigma 10-20 ex dc for a few landscape photos. I'm still learning how to best use this lens, because of the perspective it gives you it's quite hard to give a picture structure. I find that I need to be pretty much sat on whatever I want to be in the foreground or it disappears into the background. Saying that, I'm getting more 'keepers' from this lens as time goes on and I use it more and more.
This last photo is my favourite from the weekend, it took one or two tweaks in lightroom but this is broadly how it came out of the camera and really shows of the wide-angle lens to its best.
We stayed in a great Bed and Breakfast about halfway between Axminster and Lyme Regis http://www.sw.wol.co.uk/Content/default.asp which served a fantastic breakfast and had a brilliant Summer House for us to stay in.
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