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We took a stroll around the Fowlmere RSPB site near Cambridge today and, as has been standard through much of the year, I took along my Macro lens to photograph some of the bugs around the place. It’s a really lovely place, with super clear chalk springs feeding the streams
Just your common or garden housefly…in the garden…at least, I think it’s a housefly, I’m no expert. We’ve had a big clear out of the garden and are waiting for a lot of the new plants to flower for the first time so we haven’t had the usual vloume of
Another day when I’ve dug out a bit of kit I haven’t used for ages. Today was the turn of the Raynox M250 Macroscopic (close up) lens. As the name suggests this magnifies the view you get through the lens. Attaching this as I di to my 105mm macro lens
The wild strawberries grow well in our small garden – I’ve included a shot of the flower earlier this year so it is only right that I keep you up to date with their progress. With the number of birds (not to mention the 2 remaining rats) that live and
This, as the title suggests, is a Mountain Geranium. This is the third time I’ve shot this flower recently. Today I’ve made a 6 shot photo stack to increase the depth of field. I handheld this shot so couldn’t really manage many more than that 😉 I think my earlier
Another shot from the garden. The chives reappear every year and always add a nice splash of colour to the place.
We’ve actually done some gardening this year…the first time for a long time. When I say we, I do, of course, mean Debbie. I tend to be the slash and burn man, but this year I have put up 2 trellises with 1 more to go up this weekend. This
I’m not sure why I haven’t tried this before – infra-red macro. I rather like what the process has done to this dandelion seedhead – there’s definitely some mileage in this – expect to see a re-worked (ie better, in focus) version of this in the next few days and
I haven’t photographed one of these for a long time, and today wasn’t an ideal time to photograph it because we’ve had a fair amount of rain today and the seed “feathers” (they probably have a proper name but I don’t know it!) were “closed” on the whole. Nevertheless, it
It’s been one of those days where I just couldn’t be bothered to do anything, not just photography! Around tea time I wandered out into the garden to see what was available to photograph amd saw there were more flowers out of the “weed” that I photographed last Saturday. You’ll
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