One of the photographic techniques that was impossible on my Fujifilm Finepix camera was adjusting the shutter speed. This could be influenced by switching to macro mode for a slightly slower speed but was otherwise automatic.

On my Nikon D40, I can have any shutter speed from faster than a speeding bullet to half a minute or more. I was taking some pictures of a local building a couple of weekends ago, across the other side of a relatively busy road, and it struck me that something large like a bus might make an interesting effect with a low shutter speed; the result is shown here.

I probably could not have taken the picture on a brighter day but the overcast setting was ideal. Half a second was enough for the London bus to become a blur of colour, making a pleasing effect.

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