A weekend away

Well, it happened. Mum, desperate to escape the confines of the home and the chaos of a kitchen that still isn't straight since we started tearing it asunder in mid Jan, wanted to go on a coach trip ... and I had to go with her for company.

So, armed with my trusty Pentax K20d, the 50-135 DA* and the 16-45 DA; I went forth in to the lands of Warwick Castle and the modern town living off old Shakespearian wit, Stratford-Upon-Avon.

The long story short is that two days, shooting over 600 RAW images I didn't even get one battery to show half depleted.

The camera and 50-135 were carried in the Think-Tank Digital Holster 50 with the shoulder strap. The 16-45 was carried in a lens pouch, in my handbag. When it came to day shooting, the camera was out all the time and whatever lens wasn't on the front of the camera, was resting in the Holster, ready to swap out. The 16-45 didn't actually get any use in Warwick at all but it got heavily used in Stratford.

The coach trip actually cost about £130 for two of us on a deal for the weekend and included breakfast in the price; leaving us to find an evening meal and lunches for both days. So if you're looking to practice your shooting but don't want to spend big and can't afford the holiday time off, then look in to coach trips as a cheap deal to get somewhere that isn't your back garden. Also, travel to and from the pick up point needs to be factored in, possibly at awkward times of the morning and evening; we left home at about 6:45am and didn't return back until about 8:45pm.

In the next few posts, I'll go through was was a grey day shooting in Warwick and then a sunny day shooting in Stratford. Stay tuned.