Cormorant Exiting Water

Taken at Lackford yesterday in poor light at 240 frames per second and slowed to 24 fps. Love the elegance shown when slowed down - my dance teacher would be pleased with those foot movements.
 

Heron and Dabchick at Lackford Lakes

A much-reduced party from CCC and the RPS Nature Group visited Lackford Lakes and enjoyed photographing Heron and Dabchicks in the pouring rain from a dry but drafty hide. I tried some slow shutterspeeds on the rain and was surprised to be able to handhold at 1/60th second (subsequent frames 1/250th, 1/1000th, 1/1000th and 1/2000th). A pair of Dabchicks kept us amused for a lot of the morning.

 

Emmbrook Surrey

 Just back from a weekend in Emmbrook near Wokingham Surrey giving a day's lecture to the Thames Valley RPS. Yesterday evening, we had a bit of a walk round the area including the impressively decorated Underpass!!

Light Painting Toft Photogroup

My favourite image from Toft Photogroup yesterday evening was the bottles and glasses lit by glow sticks and UV torch but there were some close runners up with the fairy lights etc

Toft Garden Mid-November

I haven't previously recorded the flowers in the garden in November  but, with this year's mild autumn, I thought it would be interesting to record what is still in bloom to compare with future years,

Winter Visitors to Cambridgeshire

Not great images as light very poor on Sunday but great to see flocks of Fieldfare and Redwings and mixed Finches/Yellowhammers, presumably linked to the very large berry crop this year.