Playing with Multiple Exposures

A dull cloudy day - no interesting light to play with so decided on Multiple Exposure mode. The blend mode is set to Dark so figures etc in black with tend to come forward in the composite giving some quite convincing images like the first one here. Very apposite for our times, the lady in the third ME has been given a mask during the blending of images. The last two use two different film types for the two images (sepia and monochrome).

Garden and Local Birds

Our Dunnocks are paired up and displaying while a pair of Blackcaps come to our feeders. Already Bluetits are inspecting the nestbox. A Buzzard regularly uses the fallen stump in the field next to the house along with a Jay. The Stonechat may be passing through as not seen before.

Spring Flowers

Some flowers taken with legacy Olympus OM50mm lens at various apertures (irises are F16, F8, F4 and F1.8).

Shallow DOF Caldecote Church

We took a walk through the mud and flooded fields to Caldecote Church this afternoon. I was using a legacy Olympus OM 50mm f1.8 lens which gives very smooth backgrounds and muted colours.

Winter Birds in Toft

A few birds from a walk round our village. . Lots of Redwings feeding on the ground along with Blackbirds and Fieldfares. Great to see a Siskin in the trees - it was only a dark silhouette to the eye so pleased to be able to do the ID on the computer after lightening the file. The Starling is definitely the star of the set with his iridescent plumage

Park Street Car Park Cambridge

As we had to be out in the car, we took our exercise in the Chesterton area of Cambridge - a delight not to be battling with our local mud and ice! Park Street Car Park is such an anomaly and yet has all the intrigue for me of concrete structures. It was built around 1960 and was due for closure and redevelopment to a hotel and car park  this spring. However, the contractors have dropped out so at the moment it has a reprieve - a relief in some ways I am sure for the local residents.