Images from Kew

The crocuses opened in a brief spell of sunshine and snowdrops are at their best.

Our Cats

Very typical picture of our mother and daughter cats meeting in a doorway. Good swerve!

Shift lens

Taken with 24mm shift lens - f22 and 2 second exposure using manual exposure and manual focusing - back to the old days! It certainly slows down photography but is very relaxing when there is plenty of time for those snaps!!

Trials with Peacock Feathers

Enlarging just a small part of the frame taken on the Canon 5D still gives an acceptable image for projection.

Happy Birthday Ruby

8 years old today.

After the Snow

Toft meadow this morning after heavy overnight snow and then rain.

Burwash Farm

Image from last Friday in Barton

Bikes at Clare

Sunshine after the snow.

Peterhouse College Cambridge

Attracted by the elegant lamps in Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest College that still exists, founded in 1284.

Our Dogs enjoying the Snow

Ruby and Millie, our Irish setters enjoying the snow. They spend a lot of time rolling in it and then chasing each other.

Blue skies at Wimpole

Beautiful day at Wimpole - lying snow, ice and dark blue sky.

The lake is half frozen and the coots spent a lot of time chasing each other across the surface

Grantchester Meadows

A couple more of my favourite trees - this time in Grantchester and after the snow.

Footprints in the Snow

This duck appeared to know where it was going, but there was a degree of indecision in the moorhen's route.

Fountain's Abbey

Two images of Fountain's Abbey Yorkshire after the heavy snowfall this week

Some snowy pictures from Yorkshire

Harrogate and surrounding countryside looked magical today in the snow. Lots of snow ploughs and gritters have been at work and the roads so far are clear.

Mallard with flaps down

Spent an hour looking for the Bittern at Fowlmere - no luck but liked this elegant Mallard coming in to land

Clacton Evening VIew of Pier

Not a very sharp image as handheld at 1/15th but gives the feeling of a cold evening on the promenade - thank you to Clacton Camera Club for a subsequent warm welcome.

Grand Arcade Cambridge

Liked the colours inside the arcade on a sunny day - quick snap with compact - must ask sometime to take a proper set of photographs.

Sunset at the Thames Barrier

View from Woolwich towards Docklands showing the Thames Barrier

Barn Owl at Pymore

Lucky to see this barn owl quartering a field on our way back from Welney. Taken at ISO 2000 and put through Neat Image. Surprised at the result

Clare Bridge

Complementary umbrellas

Style in Cambridge

Very stylish umbrella seen in Cambridge while shopping.

Muntjac

Looking out of my window, thinking about going out and doing a bit of weeding, when a muntjac came through the hedge. It stayed for about half an hour trimming down weeds (and more precious plants) very effectively.

Another Hoar Frost View

Albert Memorial

One of images taken with 15mm lens on the London trip.

Gives new view of the Albert Memorial

St Pancras Station

The rennovated St Pancras Station is a great entrance point for visitors from the Continent.

Ice Sculpture Festival at Natural History Museum London

Sculpture of two dolphins by French ice sculptors.

(http://www.wharles.com/)

Unfortunately the festival coincided with the start of the warmer weather, so the sculptures gradually melted during the day.

Hoar Frost in the Beechwood

Another day of freezing fog - all the twigs had picked up the frost in the wood.

Mist in Toft

Two images from an afternoon walk in the freezing fog in Toft. This is my 'favourite' tree seen from two directions!

Website updated

At last, I have got round to putting South Africa, Bass Rock and Ecuador Nature pictures onto my website http://www.pin-sharp.co.uk

Out in the Cold

Very cold afternoon in Cambridge.

More snowclouds!

A wider view converted to monochrome - 16 mm lens

Snowclouds at Wimpole

The lake is just about frozen over at wimpole with a light dusting of snow on the ice.

Reaching out

Walking in local wood, found these moss-covered roots - photographed using 15 mm fisheye they look very alien.