New Year's Eve.

[WereBo]

My trusty ol' P610 bridge-cam died just before Christmas so I sent it off for repairs.  I got an email back saying they were waiting for spares to arrive, then another saying the bits were coming from Japan!!!  I couldn't wait any longer so, as I'd had a recent windfall, I went and gotted myself a new Nikon D5600+18mm-55mm lens, along with a 70mm-300mm and 40mm macro lenses, plus circular-polarisers for each one.  The shop didn't have the 70mm-300mm in stock at the time, so I had to go back and collect it a couple o' days later.

The most frustrating bit of the whole experience? Waiting for the battery to charge up so I could play with it...  

Anyway, these are the first set of photos from it, I went up to the top floor (5th) of the flats where I live, to get some celebration shots.  I'd discovered that I can see part of the London-Eye previously, so there was a lot of hope for something....

 

Looking towards London.....

 

 

 

Straight across the Thames to The Docklands.......

 

Looking downriver to Greenwich......

 

[Nikonmike]

Nice start with the new camera.

[Korky]

A nice start indeed - looking forward to seeing more of your efforts using the new kit!

Korky

[Clicker]

  Good to see  you back WereBo ..... urban night  time images require careful attention in my experience. Nicely caught.

[WereBo]

Thank you for the kind words folks, 'tis muchly appreciated

 

@ Clicker - I did my usual trick with a new camera, set it to the appropriate pre-programmed 'Scene', in this instance 'Night Landscape'.  This gives me a chance to see how well the programmed scenes are, and the exif-data gives me an idea of the settings used, so I can play with 'em later as required.

Just out of curiosity I did a comparison between 2 similar photos, 1 from my old Nikon P610 bridge-cam and the new D5600, now I can't decide which is chalk and which is the cheese...... 

 

From my new D5600......

 

From the Nikon P610.....

[Kobione]

Very nice start with your new toy WereBo - we get very little opportunity for night photography where we live, no lights like that!

[WereBo]

Thank you Kobione, I'd be happy to swap residences if you like, I'd love to get away from here

 

[NannyFerret]

Smashing captures. 

You have a great view. All I have are flats which look directly into my living room.

[WereBo]

Thank you NannyFerret 

I have that too from t'other side of my flat.  It's also a 12-storey block which cuts all my afternoon sunshine in Spring/Summer/Autumn

[Denis]

You will be pleased with the 70-300, its a good lens, I have the 55-300 and that is quite good too. Good to see you back as well !

[WereBo]

Thank you Dennis, I'm still waiting for the opportunity to test the 55-300mm, though it won't be long now