Using Legacy Telephoto Lens

 While clearing out the loft, we found an old 135 Takumar lens and so I decided to attach it with a suitable M42 mount to my Fuji. It is regarded as one of the best telephoto lenses and used at  f3.5 aperture gives lovely 'soft' images and muted colours. Perfect for a misty morning in the wood.

Toft Wood Spring Update

The trees and bushes are just beginning to come into leaf and bloom on my local walk around Toft wood and fields. The Blackthorn and Willow have been out for a couple of weeks and now the Ash and other trees and bushes are showing signs of life.

Hardwick Wood Spring flowers

The spring flowers are  well advanced in Hardwick Wood this year, including the Oxlips though the dry conditions mean they are pretty stunted. 

 

Spring Markers 2022

 Each year on this date, I record what is out in the garden, partly because it is the Spring Equinox but also because it was my first husband, James Chase's birthday and he loved gardening and nature (he would have been 80 today but unfortunately he only lived for 30 of those years). Spring is fairly well advance this year particularly after the last few days warm sunshine with Japonica, plum blossom, Anemone blanda, Spurge, cowslips, aubretia, celandine, violet, daffodil, comfrey etc in bloom

Stanwick Lakes - Landscapes and Birds

The sky was ideal for a bit of landscape photography on Monday at Stanwick Lakes and even the commoner birds made attractive subjects in the sunshine.