Time Immortal

The flag of the Rover Scouts is the Cross of St. George, reflecting the Britannic heritage of the Scouting movement. The Rover Crew proudly displays our not-quite-to-spec St. George’s Cross pretty much wherever we go, and we proudly fly it off the balcony of the Den whenever we’re out there.

This doesn’t really look the part, but it is another Lensbaby picture. Since much of the shot is devoted to areas of relatively flat colour, and then without much detail, the blurring effect isn’t as apparent. I had to wait a few minutes for the wind to kick the flag up enough that I could get a more-or-less complete picture of it, but fortunately it wasn’t all that cold outside. I really like how the blue of the sky came through in the shot — what you see here, O Reader, is what the camera returned to me; I don’t recall doing any major saturation adjustments to this shot in Lightroom.

Nor was I using a polarizer that day.

I think what probably happened is that I had the exposure dialed back due to the fact that I was using the Lensbaby — since, when I’m shooting the EOS 350D in aperture-priority mode, the Lensbaby tends to overexpose a bit, I usually compensate by knocking the exposure down by about 2/3 eV. That certainly served to keep the white on the front facade of the Den from blowing out, and I’d guess that’s what darkened the sky to such an attractive hue.