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Back to the woods, and back to the fungi. I like this picture of the fungi because it’s not perfect in two ways, the depth of field is a little too narrow and the state of the fungi leaves a lot to be desired! Have you ever found a perfect
I’m having a go at something new. Creating something more than just a photograph using some textures and OnOne’s Photo Frame program. The main texture used was a large muddy puddle, so there’s a good mix of pretty and ugly… I removed the texture from the centre of the daisy
We’ll step away from the usual format today and have a look at the pudding we had with our tea tonight. Figs with Muscovado Sugar and a nob of butter with a side order of vanilla ice cream – Green and Blacks – Delicious!
I started to follow a photographer (one of many) on Google+ called Colby Brown and he made a fantastic image of a field of sunflowers you can see here. I’d seen, unexpectedly, some sunflowers peaking out from a hedge on my way home from work, so I thought I’d give
We’ve not had a song title/reference for a while so see if you can get this one. We visited West Wood just outside Thaxted at the weekend (actually on our way back to Dunmow from Rowney Wood) and found this chap hanging around in a most peculiar position!
Along with yesterdays bug photographs, I also photographed some dandelion heads. A bit cliched now, but for a good reason – they make good pictures. So here are two of mine
It was a lovely sunny afternoon today so I went off to one of my favourite spots Damselfly spotting with my new macro lens over in Little Bardfield. I found a small number of damselflys but also found lots of other bugs to photograph including this rather unpleasant looking drone
I’m not a fan of wasps, nasty stingy things that get in your beer, but get a macro lens onto them and maybe they become things of beauty. I love the colours on its head, I’ve never noticed reds on a wasp before, mind you, I’ve never been this close
Looking through the fridge this evening I came across a few Strawberries left over from the weekend. We’d had a bit of a Strawberry frenzy with both of us returning from work clutching punnets of the fruit. It was a little disappointing to find that the few that were left
So I invested in a very nice new Macro lens this week – 105mm f2.8 Nikon lens so you’re going to see a few of these over the weeks to come 😉 This is a hoverfly in the back garden in Great Dunmow – my macro technique needs perfecting, but
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