This evening I watched the Leicester Tigers playing the Barbarians with my dad. It’s the first time I’ve been to a live game of rugby for years – probably at least eight or nine years now. The first half of the game was rather quiet, but in the second half everyong woke up and the Tigers were scoring tries all over the place – with Tuilagi getting three of them. (I think it was just the one Tuilagi who got three tries – although there were three Tuilagis on the pitch, all brothers). In the end we won 42-19.
When I used to go down I sometimes took my camera along and tried to get photographs, but back then I couldn’t afford lots of film or decent lenses, so I didn’t often get good pictures. Now I still can’t afford lots of film, but I have a digital camera and a long zoom lens, so I was able to shoot of a hundred and twenty photos, and a few of them were quite good. I’ve put the best nine on my photos page.
Hey James, they look excellent! What length telephoto did you use? I am very jealous for two reasons – one that you got to watch Tigers and two, you took better pictures than I ever have!
I used my 28-300mm zoom lens, which is about 44-480 on the Canon EOS 300D. And I set the ISO to 3200 and then underexposed everything by one stop so the shutter speed would be faster.