'Soft' Day at Paxton Pits

Paxton Pits show a dramatic rise in water level over the last couple of weeks with a lot of the islands now submerged. This has greatly reduced the numbers of birds to be seen but it certainly looked wonderful in the soft light with patches of mist over the water. Mostly shot at 1/500th except Herons at 1/60th - still experimenting with shutterspeeds and sharpness.

Remembrance Sunday

A few images from a very misty walk around my Cambridgeshire village, Toft, on a very misty Remembrance Sunday morning. I managed a very distant image of a Hare and was thrilled to see very large flocks of finches including lots of Yellow Hammers and Reed Buntings and even larger flocks of mixed Redwings and Fieldfare (next post!!).

Norfolk Windpumps

This is the final set of 'windpump' images taken with a wide-angle (10-24mm lens) and a graduated neutral density filter plus 10-stop ND filter in most cases. Exposures range from 1 second to 60seconds in the white house on blue water. I captured the one ray of sunshine that day as it illuminated this house.

Planning Shots for Wind Pump Photographs

 The main object of yesterday's landscape day was to use a wide -angle set up with filters to achieve some 'classic' Norfolk views. I used my compact (X100V) as a planning tool to see what compositions might work and what colour and 'information' might be achievable. The X100V has a built-in neutral density filter and also a HDR mode producing a raw file both very useful for this task. I find I can handhold to 1/8th sec. These are raws from the camera at ISO160 with no noise reduction or sharpening.

Infrared Images Thurne and Turf Fen

Today we had a very enjoyable landscape photography day led by Justin Minns, visiting Thurne Dyke drainage mill and the drainage mill at Turf Fen which can only be viewed from the opposite bank. The weather was very grey and quite rainy most of the time with just a few lighter areas appearing in the sky. Here some shots taken with my compact IR-converted camera  - jpegs taken direct from camera which I feel give a good feel for the day!