I thought I’d take a break from my summer recap and show you some pictures I took this afternoon.

If you saw my Twitter post this afternoon, you might be wondering what a Manfrotto Magic Arm is.  It’s easier to send you to a product page than it is to try and describe it, so click on one of those last two links.  I bought it as a kit that also includes the super clamp, giving me the ability to attach my camera to all sorts of things.  So today, I clamped the arm to my mountain bike, attached my camera to the other end, hooked up my remote cable release with interval capabilities, and went for a ride up and down my block.  I set the remote to fire the camera every two seconds as I rode.  After a couple of times up and down the street, switching the angle and mounting location each time, I had several hundred shots.  These are the four I liked.  The last two almost look like static poses because I had the shutter speed too high to get any motion blur, but I was riding at the time.  In the first two, you can definitely tell I’m moving.  Since I was using an ultra-wide angle lens (my 12mm), you get that distorted perspective where my hands look really, really big compared to the rest of my body. :)  The magic arm opens up a whole range of possibilities to get some unique shots from different perspectives.  It’s going to be fun.

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