This week has seen a change from late spring to a high summer feel with temperatures 23 to 24C. Light winds early in the week turned lot windier later in the week.

First a couple of HDR pictures I processed taken earlier.

The one below is of the ceiling of a side part of Bath Abbey taken a Christmas.

At the next window click the picture for a larger size and click “view all sizes” for the largest. See also there details of the background and the processing of the picture.

The next picture was taken in February of Teguise Church in the centre of Lanzarote. This picture reached the Explore Pages of Flickr, the top 500 out of over a million uploaded for the day. As a result my pictures on Flickr received 1900 views instead of the usual average of 250.

At the next window click the picture for a larger size and click “view all sizes” for the largest. See also there details of the background and the processing of the picture.

Last Sunday 11 March I first did a half day ride to Fermes in the south riding via Geria to Fermes at 1250ft. I avoided the really steep climb doing an out and back ride from the south with a cafe stop at the top.

Later that day in the evening with clear skies I took a short ride half way up the winding lane to Tias which is my usual quiet route out.

I was headed for a deserted ruined building with some slats still in the roof but otherwise open to take Star Trails. This was taken over 70 minutes with 140 exposures of 30 seconds later combined in software.

At the next window click the picture for a larger size and click “view all sizes” for the largest. See also there details of the background and the processing of the picture.

On Tuesday I started late in the morning for a ride to Haria for the sunset and possibly star trails. The wind was light and I headed out via Costa Teguise and up to the coast road. Then it was on a quiet side road via Tabayesco. This winds its way up a 1250ft climb to come out near Haria. Near the top I came across the odd couple of a Donkey and a horse grazing in a field.

Then it was on up winding hairpins the last 750ft to the top at 2000ft. For a while I had noticed that while most of the Island was clear cloud was lapping against the mountains on the far coast where I planned to take pictures. The shot below is part way up the climb with Haria in the distance.

After the top I turned off on another quiet road to the viewpoint at La Nieves. The clouds nearly cleared enough for some sunset shots including the one below. The viewpoint looks down from sheer 2000ft cliffs to Famara and the NW coast.

Just after this shot was taken the clouds moved in up to the top, rolling in like mist obscuring the view. The return ride mainly in the dark took 2 hours. My 2 strong front lights lit the way. 59 miles for the day.

Tuesday morning I badly cut my little toe banging it against a door in the apartment. I later learned on the web that the best way to stop a lot of bleeding is to apply pressure for 15 minutes continuously and not keep stopping to check how its doing as I did. This meant a few days off the bike for fear of pressure against the shoe opening up the wound.

I was fairly well recovered by today and took a ride up to the Plateau. I even managed to find a road I had not previously used before through Mozaga parallel to the main road to Tiagua. Then it was on to Mancha Blanca and a stop for a picnic lunch at the Church. Then past the cracked rim volcano and back to base. 28 miles for the day.

I will now be winding down and packing with no more rides planned until I fly back Tuesday.

126 miles for this week

Edwin

Posted by RideLeader at 00:01 BST

Updated: Sunday, 18 March 2012 18:38 BST

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