Softer Side of Scotsdales flowers

The first 6 images are taken using a cokin filter that hadn't seen the light of day since my film days. It has a central and several surrounding clear holes on a diffusing background. It worked best with light backgrounds and overexposing as in image 4 gave particularly interesting images. The last four images are taken at f1.8 with a manual Olympus lens on my Fuji.

Insectivorous Plants

During our CCC day at Scotsdales (more to Follow!!), I took the opportunity to focus stack 4 types of insectivorous plants as detail is really eseential to appreciate the amazing structures in these small carnivores. 25 images taken on focus bracketing with Fuji XT2 hand held and stacked with Zerene stacker.

Cambridge and its Bicycles

Camcycle are organising a Cycling Festival in Cambridge during September and. along with John Lewis, who are putting on an appropriate display in their store, asked CCC to submit some images. Here are a few I took yesterday in the sunshine (you may get the rainy set sometime but I seem to have shared a lot of wet images recently!). The difficuly was getting images without large masses of 'untidy' tourists in the frame!

 

 

 

London in the Rain 3. Southbank Reflected

I was trying for that Cartier Bresson moment of leaping a puddle, but had to be content with mobile phones and an obliging seagull!  

  

London in the Rain 2. St Pauls and the Millenium Bridge

 Our route to London Bridge area involved crossing the Millenium Bridge - an excellent opportunity to snap umbrellas en masse.

London in the Rain 1. From the Gallery

We travelled up to London yesterday to do an afternoon stewarding at the London Salon Exhibition . It rained all day giving lots of opportunities for my favourite subject - umbrellas! Here a few views as people passed the gallery hurrying on to get out of the rain.