Green-winged Orchids

I visited this meadow near Wymondham, Norfolk at about the same time last year and was pleased to find the orchids just as good this year. It is a beautiful meadow fullof Buttercups, Saxifrage and Lady's Smock with many areas of Green-Veined Orchids. The variance in colour and flower shape is noticeable. 

Snetterton Stage Rallying

We attended a new type of event - Stage Rallying with the final round of the 2015-16 Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship. Each of nine rounds had a different layout and included off-track areas. Not the most exciting sport to photograph but I was practising with the Fuji, trying to master panning with an electronic viewfinder. The first two are taken at 1/1000 sec - static shots; the other pair are panning at 1/250sec

Know your Camera Workshop - Droplet Photography

We had a lot of fun with dropping ink into water yesterday at the workshop. Before I put the equipment away, I had a play at home - here are a few of them. The main problem for me was focus but the colours made up for it. The droplets on twigs was less successful - still work to do there to get a good large drop to stay long enough to photograph the background through it.

Water Drops for Next Workshop

It took longer than I hoped to build a rig to drop water onto a water surface and photograph it but think I now have a fairly consistent result so hope the participants at the CCC Workshop on Saturday can get some satisfactory results.

Damselflies and Life in the Spinach Patch

Yesterday saw the first Red Damselflies in any numbers in the garden, many newly emerged as in the 4th photo. The spinach bed is heaving with Shield bugs of various types, Flies and Solitary Bees. I am in the process of identifying all these. The Holly Blue butterfly is easier!

 

 

Fowlmere in Evening Light

As an antidote to a day spent indoors foe the EA Region RPS, I had a walk round Fowlmere in the evening. The usual species were around including Dabchick, Marsh Harrier, Reed Warbler and obliging Blackcap female. The Coot appeared to feed its youngster a closed mollusc - it managed to swallow it but wondered if its digestion would deal with this - any ideas? The ?Chinese Water deer was very frisky - charging around the area.