A couple of nights ago the camera club, which includes me, headed off to Sainte Marie Among the Hurons. This is a pioneering re-enactment village in Midland and it seeks to recreate life in a seventeenth century Jesuit Mission. It is really lovely and the particular exhibition at this time of the year is called First Light. All the pathways and building interiors are light by candles, lots of candles, maybe 10,000 candles. It is really quite amazing and very pretty...I think.

You see we are all wearing masks because of Covid. And, I wear glasses and can barely see beyond my nose without them. Are you getting the picture? We have all worn masks for so long now that anyone who wears glasses certainly is getting the picture. 

So given a cold night, mask and no glasses it was all I could do not to trip and fall as I negotiated from building to building down dimly lit paths. 

As far as photography goes I thought I had came prepared. One lens, a 50mm f1.8, hand held. It was not to be. Without my glasses I adjusted the diopter as far as possible to present an in focus view through the viewfinder. But I couldn't walk around looking through my camera. 

So I point and shot what i thought were interesting subjects, waiting for the little chirp of the camera to tell me I had focus lock. 

The results were less than disappointing. Most were shot at ISO 25,600. To begin with my camera doesn't do that very well. Second, hand held in the dark and mostly blind is not a recipe for a great in focus shot. Finally, with so litte light the shutter speed with the camera set on aperture priority mode was bordering on unworkable when hand held, even at f1.8.

And so all things are not always possible. The important thing is the effort that was made and the commradery I enjoyed with fellow photographers. 

84 images, not really any keepers. A tripod would have helped a great deal but I didn't feel it was the tihing to do considering the cramped spaces and crowds of people. 

So ends this blog. A good time, no photo results to speak of. Better success on my next outing.