Paxton Pits Walk

Last week, Paxton teemed with birds close to the shore but with the water level receding they have retreated further into the centre of the Pits. Trying out the new Fuji camera - very impressed with the focusing and the Precapture works well so a thumbs up there - only problem now is finding a workflow as Adobe Lightroom does not support the file format ( and never will for my Lightroom 6). so these are jpegs from the camera setting - need to tweak this for future use as a bit contrasty.

CCC Outing to Wandlebury

 As it was half-term week, we arranged an outing to Wandlebury to photograph the colours and encourage the children to take photographs. Unsurprisingly, the children were too happy building dens to try photographing but Sadie took time off to photograph the group and her sister making a den for Peanut. One image from me of Sadie in her new bedroom. Thanks Yair for arranging this.

 

 

Early Morning in London including the new Coal Drops Yard Development

I decided to make the most of my train fare to London on Saturday so I got an early train arriving just as the sun came up in the King's Cross area. The changes there in only a few months are extraordinary but there is still a lot of clearing up to do at the Coal Drops Yard development  if they are to achieve the artists vision by the Opening on October 26th. I walked as far as Warren Street and then took tube to Green Park where the sunlight through the trees etc took my eye and filled the rest of the available time!

People's Vote March in London on 20th October

I joined a mass of an estimated 670,000 people on /Saturday, asking that any or no Brexit deals are put to the people before acceptance. The first poster sums up the reasons for this demand whatever way you voted. There were so many people at the rally that only a small percentage of the protestors could make it to Parliament Square and getting back on the Underground etc was no fun!

Brandon Country Park - Experimenting with Fungi

Beautiful autumn day on Friday for our visit to Brandon Country Park. Although not a bumper year, there were enough fungi to keep us happy for the day. As usual, I tried various techniques - in the comparison pairs here, the lefthand images are single shots either with 10mm (1) or 50mm (3,5,7) lenses, F18-F5.6, while the comparison images (2,4,6,8) are all focus stacked with the 50mm lens using 30-40 images at F2.8. In 9 and 10, the difference between the 24mm and 10mm ends of the wide zoom on the Fuji are apparent