Sunrise or Sunset?
Does this picture show the orange brilliance of an early Sunrise’s warmth or the dying glow of a late Sunset’s embers? I’ll let you decide that one…
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Tamron 55-200mm f/4-5.6 Di ll LD lens with settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/4000 seconds*
Beneath the boughs
The trees’ early morning shadows stretch beneath their leafy boughs, chasing one another in circles as the ageing day gets shorter and shorter…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/2.2, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/400 seconds*
Overdue repairs
This street light epitomises the lack of money available to any local Council throughout the UK: with its glass cover left dangling in the wind and its rust-pitted post getting weaker by each passing year, it’s a miracle that this amber bulb is actually still working!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/400 seconds*
A Snail’s pace…
This Snail appears have been caught-short while trying to reach the shade of this tree before the morning Sun became too hot to handle. Unfortunately, the home-carrying mollusc was just too slow to make the cool shadows, so it was time to ‘weigh anchor’ and ‘batten down the hatches’ by retreating into its shell until the heat of the day has passed.
Personally, I’m not convinced this particular Gastropod will even reach the designated time, as the glare reflecting from its spirally-coiled shell appears to show the conical design acting as a calcium carbonate stewing pot: anyone for Snail soup?!
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/3.5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1600 seconds*
Parted petals
Now the bloom has finished and its stamen’s pollen has been ravaged, this Dwarf Tulip’s iridescent red-violet petals have begun to shrivel and drop away, their role now complete until the arrival of next year’s flowering season…
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS mkll lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*
Panoramic gruel
Let the full-blown calf-tearing, artery-churning slog of a bicycle ride commence (although to be truthful, there could be worse places than the Pennine Way to be on a bright and sunny Saturday morning)!
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix LX3 10mp enthusiast compact camera with settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Hook, line & Skimmer!
Sorry for the delay in uploading anything lately, but new job needed breaking in, so apologies to all who’ve been waiting!
A small Bream – also known as a ‘Skimmer’ to most UK fishermen – battles in vain against the elasticated workings of a pole, a size 22 spade end and the ‘pound bottom’ that helped to present a single caster as natural fish-food…
For everybody else who has no idea of fishing, the above jargon just means that the fisherman in question knows how to trick his quarry into snaffling his bait!
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Sigma f/2.8 105mm EX lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/2.8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/3200 seconds*
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Canopy
The glorious hues of a Beech tree’s Sun-dappled canopy, where each individual leaf takes on its own colour of either an infused green or a burnt orange, depending on what time of year it may be…
*Shot on a Canon 600d 18mp dSLR using a Sigma 18-125mm DC lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/80 seconds*
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