Rye Meads RSPB Reserve Waders and Gulls

After the heavy morning rain, it started to clear in the afternoon with beautiful lighting to show off the Lapwings and Black-headed Gulls displays - even a rainbow as a backdrop. Bit distant but good to see Green Sandpiper and Snipe (from Draper Hide)

 

Symonds Yat Rock Views and Birds

After visiting some friends near Monmouth in the morning, we explored Symonds Yat Rock area in the afternoon. The weather turned showery rather than continuous rain but more cloud than sun on the rock itself though the views under clearing skies were great. Took a lot of the birds feeding on sunflower seeds in the bole of an oak tree - the light was not great so high ISO and less than ideal shutterspeed.

Borrowdale Weekend - More Photos

A few more from the Lake district Weekend. The light was worth putting up with the squally showers to see the rainbows and the light on the hills. Fifth image is the view from my hotel room at sunrise on the Sunday.

Ampthill Rainbow

I stopped to admire a wonderful rainbow on the way to lecture at Ampthill Camera Club last night. The football match continued on a dandelion-covered pitch under leaden skies. The young man in red scored twice from this spot outside the box while I was watching.

 I had some fun in the adjacent poplar wood moving the camera to distort the shapes. The flag of Finland arrived in one of the images

Rainbow, Full Moon and Beach Huts

A sequence of images from a late afternoon visit to those Beach Huts. Beauriful sunny scene when we arrived and then the storm clouds came. End of Pier image has no HDR processing - the clouds reminded me of the images of hurricanes approaching in USA. No rain came until after a visit to the Fishing huts and then only enough to give a rainbow over the Beach Huts. To finish the unreal scene, a full moon was present just above the horizon - you can just see it in the centre of the bow.
The clouds disappeared and the moon gave lovely lighting on the water.

Castlerigg

Four of us decided to go and photograph Castlerigg at dawn on Saturday and, after a rather grey start and rain showers, we were rewarded with shafts of sunlight on the hills followed by a rainbow. I took images from various positions but the closer view was the one that seemed to work best.