Close-up at Botanical Gardens

I was using an  Olympus OM-System 50mm 1.8  legacy lens (lefthand images) on Saturday at the Gardens as I needed some images for a talk I am giving next week. I took most shots with a comparison image using my Fuji dedicated 50mm Zeiss Touit lens (righthand images). I always enjoy the soft pastel colours and backgrounds from the Olympus lens (both are used wide open).

Autumn at the Botanic Gardens

Beautiful warm sunshine for our CCC visit to the Cambridge Botanic gardens. Not the best autumn for colours but there were some beautiful vivid areas of orange and yellow.

Happisburgh Beach

During our time on Happisburgh beach, the skies changed from uniform grey to give some cloud structures, conveniently centred on the remains of the sea defences.  Played with shutterspeeds and water splashes - series are taken at 1/60th,1/8th and 1.5 seconds.

Erosion at Happisburgh

My last recorded visit to Happisburgh was in 2011 and I was amazed to see how much erosion had taken place in 11 years - the previous sea defences are now a tangle of iron and wooden posts. You can see from the aerial views that a whole section of the cliff, including the houses (as in 4th photo) and steps to the beach, is no longer there and the car park has been relocated. The lighthouse is unchanged though now a bit closer to the sea! These are quick monochrome conversions of the jpeg files from my Sony RX100 IR-converted camera so a bit of haloing etc

Norfolk Windpumps

This is the final set of 'windpump' images taken with a wide-angle (10-24mm lens) and a graduated neutral density filter plus 10-stop ND filter in most cases. Exposures range from 1 second to 60seconds in the white house on blue water. I captured the one ray of sunshine that day as it illuminated this house.

Planning Shots for Wind Pump Photographs

 The main object of yesterday's landscape day was to use a wide -angle set up with filters to achieve some 'classic' Norfolk views. I used my compact (X100V) as a planning tool to see what compositions might work and what colour and 'information' might be achievable. The X100V has a built-in neutral density filter and also a HDR mode producing a raw file both very useful for this task. I find I can handhold to 1/8th sec. These are raws from the camera at ISO160 with no noise reduction or sharpening.