Focus Stacking Fungi at Brandon

On Friday, visited Brandon again, this time with 3 CCC friends and spent several hours upside down attampting to Focus stack small fungi. It is the best year for fungi that I can remember with the ground just carpeted and with lots of intact Fly Agarics.

London Walk: King's Cross to Camden Lock. I Granary Square

On Saturday ten Members of CCC enjoyed a wonderfully warm and sunny day in the King's Cross/Camden area of London. While five Members set off on the Underground for Camden Market, our party planned to walk to the same destination. We started at Granary Square and the King's Cross Basin of the Regent's Canal. The Granary building houses the Central St Martins Art School with the main attraction over 1,000 choreographed fountains. To the left of the Square they are developing the Coal Yard - I spent a long time on the various structures and how they are preserving these. We eventually dragged ourselves away to start the walk along the Canal.

RSPB Reserve at Fowlmere

 A cloudy morning at Fowlmere produced only Greylag and Canada geese, an Egret and a hovering Kestrel. Could do better!!

Fungi at Brandon Country Park Last Week

Off to Brandon today and realised didn't post last week's visit. Splendid number and variety of fungi  from the Porcelain in the first shot to the delicate ink caps. Using Fuji with 10-24 or 50mm lenses.

Toft in Autumn

Three images from an afternoon walk around our village yesterday.

Grey Heron at Lackford

A very obliging Heron in pristine plumage entertained us at Lackford on Saturday.

Egrets at Lackford

A party of four Egrets were busy hunting Dragonflies on the water's edge at Lackford Lakes on Saturday and were amazingly successful. The light was constantly changing from sun to quite heavy cloud - hence the different tint of the whites. Last image taken with the 2X converter on the 400 - only works when aperture shut down (f14). Rest 1.4X 

 

Kingfishers and Image Corruption

I borrowed Phil's 400 DO lens yesterday and ran it off my Canon 1D mark IV at Lackford Lakes. Generally pleased with results but, unfortunately a large number of files were corrupt giving very interesting artifacts but not helpful when the best in a sequence always seemed to be the ones not useable.
Here are some Kingfisher images - he (no red on mandible) caught 3 fish - one so small not really worth the effort and hovered a couple of times in front of some reeds.