Dog Rose (slight return)
Summer splendour…
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a legacy Tamron 500mm f/8 mirror lens via an Adaptall 2 Pentax K mount and a M4/3 adapter, with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/2000 seconds*
Galvanised distortion
Steel framework through a fish-eye filter!
*Shot on a Canon 80d 24mp dSLR camera using a Canon EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Nano lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds (fish-eye filter applied in Photoshop CC)*
Dandelion in profile
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a Panasonic 45-200mm f/4-5.6 G Vario O.I.S. telephoto lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Stone cross
*Shot on a Canon 70d 20.2mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/400 seconds*
Coiled
A hemp rope is coiled and stacked around this barge’s cleat, securing it to the nearby towpath.
*Shot on a Canon 7d 18mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 IS L lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Rotten to the core
A ripe and delicious-looking apple reveals a black spot of rottenness on one side of its reddened skin…
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a legacy Tamron 500mm f/8 mirror lens via an Adaptall 2 Pentax K mount and a M4/3 adapter, with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1500 seconds*
Four-ball
Four lads enjoy a round of golf at Lancaster golf club in the UK, moving on from putting out on one green to the next fairway’s tee.
*Shot on an Olympus E-P5 16mp m4/3 digital camera using a 4/3 Olympus 70-300mm f/4-5.6 ED Zuiko lens via m4/3 adaptor with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*
Daffodil in the dark
*Shot on an Olympus E-P5 16mp m4/3 digital camera using a Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. Mega O.I.S. lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode, in-built flash and an exposure time of 1/25 seconds*
The Grey Man (slight return)
This Grey Heron is absorbing some Winter Sunshine and trying to warm up for their next fishing trip into the freezing Lancaster canal waters…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix G9 M4/3 mirrorless camera using a Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
The long way up
A lone walker in red begins the long and laborious climb up the rear of Clougha Pike in Lancaster, via the serpentine-bowed ‘Shooter’s Path’ that gives the public access to the vast moorland sprawl of the Duke of Westminster’s Abbeystead estate in the Forest of Bowland.
*Shot on an Olympus E-P5 16mp M4/3 digital camera using a Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens with camera settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/9, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/60 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 