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.

Cambridge Camera Club: Fun with Roses

 Being Valentine's Day, thought it appropriate to provide roses as one of the subjects for our Creative Photography Day for Cambridge Camera Club. They were photographed in Light Tents, immersed in water with coloured and gold inks, lit with UV light and used in Multiple Exposure shots. One of the examples from the double exposure is the first and favourite shot

'Christmas in Cambridge'

There are the usual attractions on Parkers Piece in Cambridge this year though it no longer has the allure of going to the 'North Pole'. I was joined by some of our photography group on Saturday at the Fair and enjoyed trying to capture the lights and excitement (though not the sounds or the smell of the various food outlets)

Unusual Angles in Toft

Motivated by a Camera Club project, I took my Fuji X100V on a walk round Toft taking images from the ground, looking up, looking down etc. For close ups, I attached a 250X close-up filter. 

Swiss Garden at Old Warden

We hadn't visited the Shuttleworth Collection and Swiss garden at Old Warden for several years and so decided on a visit there yesterday, remembering the cafe for an old-fashioned brunch and large areas of wild garden beyond the formal area in the Swiss Garden. Unfortunately the cafe has been modernised and, just our luck, the kitchen was closed. The gardens are still impressive for the tall trees etc but it has all been 'tidied ' up and certainly is no longer the haven it was for insects. These are all I found in a 90 minute visit - the Welsh Chafer (brown beetle) has not been reported on the NBN atlas anywhere in the area so was an interesting find. The strange looking bug is a nymphal stage of the Tree Damsel Fly. Certainly the very hot conditions did not favour an insect hunt except for the Four-Spot Chasers.