Fungi Workshop at Brandon

Coloured lights and prostrate figures puzzled other visitors to Brandon CP yesterday, as the RPS Nature Group attempted to photograph the limited number of Fungi on display in more creative ways. Some of the fungi like the Yellow Stagshorn, Fly Agaric and Mycena are brightly coloured; with others, we used UV light or coloured lights to give a different feel to the image. Off to Santon Downham today for part 2.

Kingfisher

 Although the light wasn't great, I was pleased to have captured most of the sequence of this kingfisher catching and consuming a fish at Paxton yesterday.

Full Spectrum Walk by River Cam

My full-spectrum camera captures a broad range of light, including ultraviolet (UV), visible, and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths (350 nm to 1000 nm). The results are very dependent on the amount of light around so the colours change in sunlit and shadow areas. Here a few scenes that I enjoyed capturing during a CCC walk along the Cam yesterday evening.

Cambridge Camera Club on the Beach

 A vibrant sunset tempted us onto the beach last night with the colour in the clouds reflected on the wet sand giving liquid gold hues towards the west and soft pastel shades out to sea. I decided on multiple exposures combining  movement of the camera at slow shutterspeeds with more static shots and very pleased with the results. Debs and Jim are taking opposite views while Ian is in all places at once covering every aspect of the subject as always. Otherwise it was playing with colours and shapes and movement.

Panels 2 Windy City

The second panel I worked on was almost straight from the camera and so had very little processing time before printing. Taken on a  windy day in Docklands, London. It was so windy that it was difficult to hold the camera still so I decided on a slowish shutterspeed and to deliberately move the camera up during the exposure. I got so entralled by the colours and abstract images produced that I lost the rest of the group several times. Images 3 and 4 don't fit that well with the other three 'tree' images - will have to return and try and find some more sometime.