CVTEC Working Day

Cheshire Vintage Tractor and Engine Club hosted their annual working day last week. I headed down armed with my Canon camera and a Hassleblad and shot some working images and some portraits. Unfortunately at the moment I can't show you the portraits as I am awaiting them to be developed. However I can show some of the working shots I was able to grab at the event.

Newbies and visitors were also encouraged to have a go.

In all honesty I am pleased with these shots but just wish the sky had been something more on the day of the event as many of my images as you will see below are lacking sky detail. This is something I have tried to make up for in my framing. 

Tractors, Lots of Tractors!

It's been a while since I photographed tractors, but on the 27th December, CTVEC hosted their annual Christmas Road run, complete with a Santa. I had a ball and despite the awful weather got some decent snaps of the day.

The early birds watching arrivals.

Happy driver

There's quite a queue to book on.

Booking in

Exchanging raffle tickets.

Double seater?

Cold and wet? Yes.

Watching everyone in to the parking spaces.

The weather didn't stop Santa visiting though.

Third Time Lucky

This isn't a photography blog, this is a boasty proud post because I've been trying to master making Sugar mice for weeks now.

My first batch wasn't too bad but they wouldn't set and they got squashed on the train.

My second batch was dreadful. Yeah, they didn't get better. They were runny and wouldn't stay in the right shape and didn't set and I ended up pouring half the batch away.

My third lot...

Well they actually look like mice! And they are all a decent size! 

Turns out though I'm not great at splitting halves,I have two extra pinks to white. But that's not all bad. And the food colouring isn't very even so the pinks look a bit tie dye but that's cool.

I'm pretty proud of these mice. Really.

Tonight I'm heading to CVTEC Christmas meeting.. CVTEC is Tractor Club by the way. SO EXCITED!