Paxton Cormorants, Herons and Egrets

Beautiful sunny morning for a visit to Paxton to test my telephoto lenses that has dried out after a couple of weeks in a warm airing cupboard. It appears to be functioning as before. The Cormorants, Herons and Little and Great Egrets were very active chasing each other around and very vocal!!

Light Painting

Some images taken at last night's CCC Wednesday Workshop meeting. The rotating bicycle wheel and the 'Christman Tree' worked particularly well as did the lit silhouettes of Charles and Barry. 

 

Halloween and Autumn Colours

Yesterday was the annual carving of Pumpkins ready for this evening. Meredith chose a mouse for the second year running which is not the easiest design!!Sadie was more traditional. The leaves and fruits are fast disappearing from Toft Wood so a quick visit in the sunshine to record for this autumn.

Cambridge III v North Walsham II

 Yesterday's match was a bit of a challenge for CRUFC's third team playing a fairly local second team - ended up 10-52. It was also a challenge for me as my 100-400 telephoto has not yet dried out so I was using a shorter zoom and one not designed for sports/nature and they were playing on a pitch with a metal barrier all down one side.

Bradgate Fungi

 The wet weather resulted in a fine show of fungi at Bradgate and the soft conditions were ideal for photography. Here a few of the species. The first two are handheld focus stacks; rest single shots with aperture adjusted to size of subject and therefore distance from subject.