An Hour in the Life of a Heron

 This Heron caught two large Perch and one small one during the hour that we spent in the Tower Hide at Fowlmere. He waded through the water up to his belly a lot of the time and sometimes actually paddled along when the feet were off the bottom.

Frost at American War Cemetery

Thurne Mill

Taken with Sony HDR and panorama modes. Images were downloaded onto tablet (Galaxy Note 10.1) adjusted in Photoshop Touch and uploaded to Blog - not quite right adjustment levels yet but interesting exercise as would be good not to travel with laptop.

Strumpshaw on a Windy Day

 We spent a very windy day at Strumpshaw Fen so there were not a lot of birds to see. The Heron came obligingly near and the birds on the feeders in the woodland kept us happy for a while in the afternoon. It was good to photograph March Tit and Nuthatch along with more common species.

Sunset at Thurne Mill

Seals at Horsey Mere

 We made our anuual club outing to Horsey Mere to photograph the seals - 550 pups is the present count and some came very close.

First Snow of Winter

 We had the first snow of winter early this morning, Only a sprinkling here but enough in Essex to close Stansted airport for a few hours

Christmas at Wimpole

Decided on a wintery walk at Wimpole Hall today and found that they had the Hall open and decked out for a Victorian Christmas. It is great now the National Trust have chosen to encourage rather than discourage photography.

Sony RX100

Following on from the very poor performance of my G12 in low/night light (not helped by a scratch on the lens), I decided to invest in a Sony RX100 as this has a large sensor and very good antishake. So here are a couple of nightshots (both I think used the in-built HDR), followed by a local landscape and a macroshot. The indoor shot was under very mixed lighting but has coped well (no correction). The final is its sweep panorama sitting in the car - the outside scene is fine but odd things have happened to the steering wheel and dashboard.