Exercise: Shutter speeds - location ideas

I have been wracking my brains to think of a fun and interesting way to carry out the shutter speeds exercise.  I have noticed that most people resort to sitting by the side of a road and capturing cars as they drive past at various speeds.  I am keen to do something different.

Some ideas I have had so far are:

• sit on a roundabout in a kids playground and photograph the world as I spin around
• place my camera in a shopping trolley and photograph it being pushed around the supermarket (credit goes to Endre 3000 for this idea http://www.flickr.com/photos/47669578@N07/4861467145/in/photostream/)
• take photographs of London tubes arriving in to a station using a wide angle lens
• take photographs while sitting on a swing

I will explore these ideas over the coming days, as time allows.

Exercise: Focal length and angle of view - Location idea

I have been thinking all day about locations where I can carry out Exercise 1, Focal Length and Angle of View. I resorted to driving around in my car scouting for locations, with no luck. This evening I realised that Flickr could provide me with some inspiration and so I browsed the wide angle Canon 10-22mm lens group for some time.

Taking in to consideration the very flat light produced by the dull grey clouds that are covering the skies in my area these days I have decided that a graveyard would be an excellent location for this exercise. I am also considering processing my images as black and white as I believe this would work well in a graveyard with flat lighting.

I will head out to my nearest graveyard tomorrow, family commitments permitting, being careful to avoid church service times as it will be Sunday.