Tate Modern

Very enjoyable couple of hours photographing in Tate Modern this morning - mostly with a fish-eye lens.

Docklands

A walk round Docklands area today with strong winds so it felt very cold despite the sunshine. I played around with multiexposures that included slow shutterspeeds - probably a good idea as it was difficult to hold the camera still.

 

Post-Christmas Break, Beckton

 For the past few years we have been going away at or just after Christmas with Jonathan and Sue most recent years to East London. This year they are cat sitting in North London so we are meeting them in London some days but staying on our own in Beckton (North Woolwich). We arrived mid afternoon and walked down to the Albert Dock now occupied by East London University. No sunset but the lights and lit buildings gave good colours to play with.

Christmas Log

Amazing what grows/lives in and on the various logs I have scattered round the garden. I am resisting trying to identify all the Collembolids as I think it might be a very time-consuming job - I am not even sure whether the long-legged creatures in the tird and fourth photos are Collembolids! Lots of mini fungi Grey caps, Fire Rug and Jellies plus a spikey slime mould, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, and what I think is Nectria gracilipes, a fungus same genus as coral spot.

Bourn Village Walk

Took a stroll round Bourn Village in he afternoon and surprised to find snowdrops in full bloom. Using a full-spectrum camera has brought out the skies and emphasized  the Christmas lights but doesn't reproduce greens well!