Shadows and Silhouettes Cambridge

The low bright sunlight this morning in Rose Crescent and Magdalene Street in Cambridge this morning was throwing people and bikes etc into bold silhouettes with strong shadows. Very difficult to capture in photographs but here is a flavour of the scenes.

Fungi at Brandon Country Park

 Beautiful autumn day at Brandon with golden sunlight through the trees yesterday for our RPS Nature Group Fungi hunt. There was a good variety around though not in the large numbers we have seen some years. I concentrated on some of the very small specimens found in the leaf litter etc. Mostly these are single shots at F13/F16 with 23mm lens plus close-up lens. The last two images are focus-stacked at F2 and F16 (No noise reduction at the moment as computer a bit poorly!)

A Hot Morning in the Woods

The Woodland Belt at Wimpole is closed except one short path through Eversden Woods. I hope these infrared images give a feel of the almost impenetrable wildness of ivy and undergrowth that is developing in the undisturbed parts of the wood.

Frosty Morning Dog Walk

Here is Ted, yesterday on our very frosty morning walk, lit by the rising sun. One of the local Red Kites was catching the first warming rays of sunlight before flying off to survey for food.

Red Deer in Autumn sunshine

 We were lucky to have a couple of hours of beautiful autumn sunshine to enjoy the Red Deer at Bushy on Monday. The herd had two stags - the largest seemed very relaxed and did not seem to object to the presence of a somewhat smaller stag that was still interested in the Hines. A young buck just showing knobs where the antlers will form spent time digging in the bracken and had been wallowing in a mud hole. The oak trees obviously offer tasty morsels for those that can reach up.