Monday, September 9, 2019
Switzerland 2 Waterfalls
Yesterday was raining most of the day so we decided a trip to the waterfalls might be a good option. Our main target was the Trummelbach Falls. With its ten glacial water falls inside the mountain, the Trümmelbach alone drains the enormous glacial walls of the Eiger (3970m), Mönch (4099m) and Jungfrau (4158m) a catchment area of 24 square kilometres of which approximately half is covered with snow and ice. It can have up to 20,000 litres of water per second, which would be deafening. On the way we visited the Staubbach Falls, the third highest waterfall in Switzerland at nearly 300 metrers. While I concentrated on a more distant shot, Peter and Holly walked up close to waterfall to put some scale in the photo!
Sunday, September 8, 2019
A Week in Switzerland 1
This is the first time I have visited Wengen in the Bernese Oberland in any month other than June/July but the first view of the Lauterbrunnen Valley still looked very familiar!. The meadows are all cut in Wengen itself but the gardens all have plenty of colour. The weather for the first couple of days is due to be cloudy and fairly wet but it does give some great cloud and peak views. Last two images infrared.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Creative Fun with Colour
As part of an evening welcoming new members to CCC, I brought along some dichroic cubes and and orange/blue polariser for members to play with. These were my test shots.
Monday, September 2, 2019
Grass Track Racing
The dry summer resulted in the grass track quickly turning to dust making great backdrop for the motorcycles. I generally preferred them in monochrome but then think it is a shame to lose the vibrant colours.
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Tough Preseason Match for CRUFC
Coventry from the Championship League against Cambridge RUFC in National 1 was always going to be a hard game for them. In the end, they went down 0-35 with a couple of near misses at tries.
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Family Photosession
I don't often post family photos as they have their own blog with lots of photos. Here are Sadie (with my camera phone) and Meredith (with Phil's Fuji) enjoying framing images - the first one is taken by Sadie photographing me, photographing Meredith. While walking around on Lammas land not far from the Cambridge city centre, delighted to photograph a Willow Emerald damselfly showing how common they have become in our region (taken with 50mm Olympus legacy f1.8 lens)
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Perfect Day for Gardening But...................
After many days too hot to venture long into the garden, yesterday was ideal to get out there with the seccateurs and start battle with the forest of foliage that needs clearing at the end of each summer. Just as I started around the pond margins, a Southern Hawker decides to lay in the moss right at my feet (image is only cropped in width!) so out comes the camera. Lots of the leaves have young shield bugs that need to be rescued from going in the green bin. Add to this some impressive hoverflies (a daily survey task) and then a favourite minute picture wing fly (c.2mm) and an impressively bristled fly. The green bin did get filled for today's collection but it was touch and go!!
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