&ldquo;first there was a three-legged monkey...&rdquo; tag:andthennothing.net,2005:Typo Typo 2005-12-18T03:19:03+00:00 Jonas Bengtsson jonas.b@home.se urn:uuid:3939b0e5-6e96-4893-86a7-a4f46afbf619 2005-06-20T22:05:00+00:00 2005-12-18T03:19:03+00:00 <p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/jonasb/20534618" title="Archipelago by night"><img src="http://photos17.flickr.com/20534618_6ce3f6a6b9.jpg" alt="Archipelago by night" /></a> Yesterday I came home 9 p.m. and was really tired, since I&#8217;ve been away all weekend and didn&#8217;t sleep too much. So I took the opportunity to take a bike ride and try out the camera tripod I bought. First I stopped by a lake and took some pictures, but it was booring so I continued. Just as I reached 47.13 km/h (no I didn&#8217;t look at my cycle computer, it was the max speed when I checked afterwards) a deer showed up just 2-3 meters from the road. So I had to stop of course and take a photo of it, but that didn&#8217;t work since it escaped before I was able to get close enough to shoot him (photographically of course). But when I was about to leave I spotted two other deers, but they were too far away to be shootable in the poor light. So there I was trying to shoot some deers, one hare, with loads of bats flying over my head. I enjoyed it but night photographing isn&#8217;t easy by any means. However, I moved along and found a wooden tower that was perfect for some tripod testing. The level of details you get by just keeping the shutter open for 8 seconds is amazing. Unfortunately my super cheap tripod was not tall enough so the tower got in the way of some shots, but at least I know that it works. On my return home I saw another deer that crossed the road just a couple of meters in front of me. But it snuck away into the forest before I could shoot it (yes, still photographically, who do you take me for?).</p>