Rain in Cambridge At Last

Although it led to a change of plans for a CCC outing, we were very pleased to get some rain yesterday in Cambridge after weeks of hot dry weather. The visitors to Cambridge had dusted off, borrowed from their hotels or purchased umbrellas and filled the streets with colour but I had already decided on a monochrome day so here are some of the images (For my records! Fuji X100V set to Acros film simulation and LR imports the profile). I have  not yet been tempted to view the underlying colour images.

Welcome(?) to Bridlington

Grey skies, intermittent rain and not too welcoming signs met us on our evening stroll but there are some charming steps and alleyways even on the funfair front. Hopefully the rain may hold off for some of the time though the weather forecast  looks pretty grim! 

My Village in Infrared

Some infrared images of my village, Toft in Cambridgeshire, on a changeable day this week. Managed the entire walk without getting wet which was an achievement - as you see from the very large puddles everywhere, we have had a lot of rain. 

Cambridge Botanic Gardens 2

 A few more images from our visit to the Gardens on Saturday including my first Bees of the year busy collecting from Winter Honeysuckle which is in full bloom. In the wooded areas some very impressive thorns and the plasmodium of a slime mould showing how wet it had been prior to our visit.

Raindrops on Flowers

Spent a short while in the garden yesterday photographing some of the flowers still in bloom and berries covered in droplets. I was using an old manual Olympus lens which gives very gentle backgrounds and seemed to suit the low light conditions. I need to be a bit more careful with my focusing however.