Lake Vyrnwy Spring Colours

The spring colours are at their best at the moment. Here a few images taken on the around Lake Vyrnwy and the walk up to the waterfall.

Mosses at Madingley Hall

 This winter's project is Mosses and Lichens - very much still in progress! Here a collection from Madingley Hall playing with depth of field and backlighting. The bright light reflected off the snow behind some of mosses gave interesting bokeh.

Frozen Lichens, Mosses and Leaves

Some further frosty images taken in Toft Wood. 

 

Using Macro Wide-angle in the Churchyard

On last sunny Sunday, I used a 12mm Zeiss with a 4X close-up filter to photograph the mosses on the church walls, snowdops and gravestones. A characteristic of the lens is that it is very sharp and renders colours very brightly. The circular image of lichens has an extra 2.5Xcloseup filter in addition to the 4X giving a strong vignette. 

Focus-Stacked Mosses and Fungi

The first four images are Focus Stacks using a 50mm macro lens and the automatic focus bracketing of my Fuji camera. Depending on how deep the stack needs to be, I varied the number of images in the bracket - the first image has 76 images in the stack; the rest used 35 images. The final two two are straight shots. 

Frozen Woodland Floor

The overnight low temperatures and mist resulted in ice crystals in the mosses, leaves and even fungi.