Playtime
A Father plays with his Son on Morecambe beach making sandcastles – while the young lad’s scooter is propped up to one side and he still wears his helmet – with a spectacular view across the Bay before them, complete with cotton wool clouds dancing on the Cumbrian peninsula’s horizon.
*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 1/1250 seconds*
Chanterelle
I was testing out a camera today and spotted this Chanterelle mushroom down in the leaf-litter and mosses in Lords Lot Wood, illuminated by a flash of Sunshine through the overhead foliage, which revealed that some hungry critter has already taken a crafty bite from its tasty rim!
(I think this is a Chanterelle, please let me know if I’m wrong, as a lot of wild mushrooms and fungi look very similar in the UK…)
*Shot on a Canon 1D Mark III 10mp professional dSLR using a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L lens with settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/250 seconds*
Blackberries…
… or is it Redberries?
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-32mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH. Mega O.I.S. lens with settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/30 seconds*
Watery marker
A lone piece of gritstone sticks above a flooded peat hole high on the moors above Tarnbrook in the Forest of Bowland, almost appearing as a headstone for some flooded grave…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-80, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/200 seconds*
Lancaster Cathedral
*Shot on an Olympus E-P3 12mp M4/3 digital camera using a Panasonic Lumix G 14mm f/2.5 pancake lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/320 seconds*
Within the leaf litter
A discarded Oak leaf is given a semblance of new life with a smattering of dappled dewdrops to its browned and dying façade…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix G9 M4/3 mirrorless camera using an Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens with settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/50 seconds*
Fushia
*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 camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/100 seconds*
The high ground
This Sheep peers down at me – over the purpled heather and hardy Billberry (or Wimberry) shrubs – as I make yet another approach towards her via the snaking Shooter’s track at the rear of Clougha Pike on the Duke of Westminster’s Forest of Bowland estate in Lancaster, UK.
*Shot on an Olympus E-M1 Mk1 16mp m4/3 pro mirrorless camera using a Panasonic 100-300mm f/4-5.6 MEGA O.I.S lens with camera settings at ISO-200, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Tide waits for no man
A flotilla of small, paint-peeling boats lie marooned upon the tide-less sands of Morecambe Bay at Bare.
*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-320, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1250 seconds*
Through the bars
A picture taken from behind an ornate door within the Manjushri Kadampa Meditation Centre Conishead Priory in Ulverston, Cumbria.
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix G5 16mp m4/3 digital camera using an Olympus 17mm 1:2.8 M.Zuiko prime lens with camera settings at ISO-400, aperture at f/8, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/60 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 