Halloween and Autumn Colours

Yesterday was the annual carving of Pumpkins ready for this evening. Meredith chose a mouse for the second year running which is not the easiest design!!Sadie was more traditional. The leaves and fruits are fast disappearing from Toft Wood so a quick visit in the sunshine to record for this autumn.

Cambridge III v North Walsham II

 Yesterday's match was a bit of a challenge for CRUFC's third team playing a fairly local second team - ended up 10-52. It was also a challenge for me as my 100-400 telephoto has not yet dried out so I was using a shorter zoom and one not designed for sports/nature and they were playing on a pitch with a metal barrier all down one side.

Bradgate Fungi

 The wet weather resulted in a fine show of fungi at Bradgate and the soft conditions were ideal for photography. Here a few of the species. The first two are handheld focus stacks; rest single shots with aperture adjusted to size of subject and therefore distance from subject.

Bradgate Miscellany

A mixed collection of photos from my two days at Bradgate Park in everchanging weather.

Bradgate Park in the Rain

The forecast was for thundery showers in Leicestershire on Sunday morning but, undeterred, 6 RPS members met up around dawn to visit Bradgate Park. We didn't get the thunderstorms, just torrential rain with occasional 'drier' interludes when we could move on from one tree shelter to the next until the afternoon. Challenging conditions with obviously low light; the first shot was at 1/30th second handheld! The Grey heron was even grumpier than last year in the snow and it is amazing what other 'hobbyist' do in the rain - I am surprised they risked electric cars in the rain (my telephoto lens proved not to withstand such extreme conditions and is residing in a bag of rice at the moment - hopefully drying out)