Favourite Local Walk

Yesterday, I decided on doing what has been my favourite walk for over 50 years from when I came to live in Toft. It involves no roads but does include hills - a relatively rare feature in Cambridgeshire. The first image is near the start and the furthest point is the top left edge of Hardwick Wood then round to Caldecote Church and back. The sunflowers in the set aside field are looking good this year and the willows along the brook show their silvery foliage in the overcast conditions.  All taken with HDR mode on X100V which produces a raw file for further processing

West Cambridge Site

11 members of Cambridge Camera Club met yesterday evening for a wander round the West Cambridge Site, which is dominated by the Schlumberger Building, here lit up as we finished our trip. It is a Grade II* Listed building by Michael Hopkins Architects opened in 1992. I mainly concentrated on multiple exposure shots as the light was very dull on a particularly grey day. I intend a return visit fairly soon as planning permission has just been approved for a complete makeover for the site with many new buildings including Cavendish III Laboratory (West Cambridge |)

 

Diversity in Garden Insects

The diversity of insects even in a relatively small garden is huge. Here two families -  Bees and Wasps and Hoverflies. The Hornet is our largest visitor to the garden - at the moment enjoying rotting fruit, with the Lasioglossum bees some of the smallest (here inside a single floret of Ragwort). The Hoverflies have all types of mimics including the Hornet mimic Volucella zonaria

 

Night-time Multiples

Setting the blend mode to additive allows an image to be built up adding lighter areas to shadow parts. Here a few experiments after dark in Toft. The last images show how well the in-camera stabilisation in my small Fuji X100V works - taken at 1/8 or 1/4 second. 

Summer Leys Birds II

A few bird images from my second day at Summer Leys in the early morning when it was still overcast and misty. The Greenfinch plumage close to shows such a variety of feather types and the second image is my first Bullfinch young in flight. Little Egret and Grey Heron just doing what they do

Day of the Triffids at Botanic Gardens

A session of Multiple Exposures with my Fuji at the Botanic Gardens!