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You can always tell when it’s bad weather here – out comes the macro lens and I end up wandering around the house trying to find something of interest to shoot. So today, as the rain patters against the window we have some silver chain.
I’ve been playing with flash today, something I’ve not done much of. I was quite please with this shot of my Gibson, Les Paul Studio guitar and plectrum:
Our regular walk through Rowney Woods included a quick walk around this field – just 2 weeks ago this was bright yellow, now the rape flowers have all been replaced by the pods that, I presume, are what the farmer will eventually harvest.
Now, don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of people that are far more into Doctor Who than I am. I make no claims that I am its number one (or indeed number 10,000th) fan, but I do enjoy Doctor Who, be it new or old series. This is
Having steadfastly ignored all the Jubilee who-ha over the last week or so it is not without a sense of irony that today’s picture is of the Union Jack. To be honest it was either this or a picture of my calculator turned upside with the numbers 55378008 typed in.
Tuesday night is Bishops Stortford Camera Club night and we were due to complete a photowalk around Hatfield Heath. Unfortunately the rain arrived and the meeting was moved to the pub…but I still needed to get my daily photo. So I visited the area of the photowalk and caught this.
Popped out into the garden over lunchtime and came back with shots of a host of flys and bees. The cool weather has made them slow and languorous – so much easier to photograph 😉
Bit of a disaster today – had a nice jubilee themed photo worked out…but I couldn’t get one part of it to work…and I made a fearful mess in the process. I’ll have another go tomorrow. Midnight was approaching fast so I came up with another idea, which, on reflection
Well, OK, it’s not actually called Sunbeam Lane ;-). This is Cooks Lane in Little Bardfield from yesterday. A very pleasant area to walk around, especially if you like bugs and birds. We saw butterflys, damselflys, mayflys, herons, lots of finches and plenty of swallows.
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