Toft Full-Spectrum Images from Misty Frosty Day

Taken on 30th November - one of the very cold misty mornings with the Full-Spectrum camera. Mostly very muted colours but, in the denser part of the wood, the autumn colours recorded well saturated presumably as infrared was somewhat filtered out by the canopy. Ted was a bit bewildered by the very cold conditions and is about to zoom off round in circles,

 

David and Francoise at Stretham

A really fun afternoon yesterday with David and Francoise at Stretham Pumping Station. Their costumes were amazing and, despite the very cold conditions, they managed to look relaxed and fully engaged for our various scenarios.

Stretham Pumping Station Details

A dull rainy day to visit Stretham Pumping Station gave some great shadows and colours for photographing the details of the machinery and tools. Stretham Old Engine is the last complete survivor of more than a hundred similar engines that worked the drainage network all over Cambridgeshire lifting the flood waters from the fields via the ditches and dykes draining it into the rivers.

 

Hoar Frost Hardwick Wood etc

After a foggy day yesterday, the temperature fell sharply overnight and we woke to a hoar frost this morning. Here some photos on my walk up to Hardwick Wood to do some Coppicing with the Wildlife Trust.

Sunset Fox and Birds

When I first moved to Toft in the late 1960s, a favourite sunset walk was always to the rushy marshy area now occupied by the Meridian golf club which had a very large Reed Bunting roost in the winter. I thought when they built the golf club in 1983 that this would be dispersed but it just moved a short way to an area of farmland that is left in the winter as it is too wet to plough. As I approached the roost area I was aware of a large number of pheasants getting very agitated and it was only when I got home and looked at the photos that I realised they had seen the Fox before me! All the birds were very jittery but images of Reed buntings, Goldfinch and Fieldfare (we have dozens of these at the moment).