Great Year for Snowdrops

Snowdrops are putting on a magnificent display everywhere around us including our village. Here are a few from our churchyard including a ladybird making the most of the warmer weather. Also saw our first Brimstone today though didn't manage a photo. Similar views are using different apertures to see what works best in terms of throwing the background out of focus but keeping the subject sharp.

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.