A walk between the corn
The end of September brings harvest time and this green alleyway through a field’s ears of corn will soon be reaped by the farmer, rendering this season’s cycle back to the bare earth once more…
*Shot on a Canon 80d 24mp dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 IS L lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds*
Daisy in the darkness
A flash of Nature’s beauty and brilliance from down in the darkness of the undergrowth…
*Shot on a Canon 80d 24mp dSLR camera using a Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX Macro lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/10, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Now you see me…
A female Wheatear plays ‘hide and seek’ on a signpost up on Wolfhole Crag, the second highest peak in the Forest of Bowland at 527metres (1,729ft): she was popping her head out from behind the lichen-covered wooden post every couple of seconds, just showing enough of herself to make sure she knew where I was at all times!
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Heysham sands
*Shot on an Olympus E-P3 12mp m4/3 digital camera using an Olympus 17mm f/2.8 pancake lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/400 seconds*
Watery marker (slight return)
Nothing like a discarded can of Carling lager, bobbing up and down in Lancaster canal, to remind you of just how hard a planet Earth clean-up would actually be…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix G9 M4/3 mirrorless camera using a Panasonic Leica 100-400mm f/4-6.3 DG Vario-Elmar Lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
Clouds over Hawthornthwaite Fell
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-125, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/640 seconds*
Steelwork
Close-up of an electricity pylon’s structured steelwork, its various angles building an intricate weave of grey lines of ever-changing perspectives, all depending on where your viewpoint is in relation to its towering symmetry…
*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/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Winkle pickers
Down on Heysham beach as the tide’s out in Morecambe Bay, two blokes are assessing the size and weight of their ‘winkles’… (which are molluscs, that they have obviously foraged and collected from the mud and tide pools that is)!
*Shot on an Olympus E-P1 12mp M4/3 digital camera using an Olympus 40-150mm f/4-5.6 ED R lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Bridge 84
Bridge 84 on the Lancaster canal, between Galgate and Cockerham in Lancashire.
*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/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/320 seconds*
Pareidolia: deadfall or Python?
Slithering through a carpet of Bluebells, this ‘Python’ raises its head above the surrounding grasses that have concealed its serpentine movements… or is this reptile just a piece of deadfall from a nearby tree?
*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-100, aperture at f/10, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/320 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 