Little Egret
A Little Egret (Egretta Garzetta) delicately trots its yellow-tipped feet across the fast flowing waters of the river Lune at Halton in Lancaster. Once a rare and exotic visitor to the UK from sunnier climates, there are now an estimated 700-800 breeding pairs of this spectacular white Heron in Great Britain and they definitely seem to be thriving around the lower reaches of the Lune, especially near Condor Green’s estuary section.
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/4, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/800 seconds*
Crook O’Lune
A view of Crook O’Lune on the river Lune at Caton in Lancaster within Lancashire, looking towards Aughton woods placed central in this picture, with the towering mountain Ingleborough peeking its crest above the trees on the left-side of the horizon, way off across the border in Yorkshire.
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/500 seconds*
Twin rotor
A Boeing CH-47 Chinook twin rotor helicopter flying low over my house: with the noise it made, there’s no way you could miss this flying machine!
*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-1000, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/2500 seconds*
Half-an-ear
This Brown Hare has suffered an injury in the past, which has resulted in the loss of half of its right-hand ear, although any hinderance to the mammal’s speed is not apparent!
*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/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/160 seconds*
Orange & pink
Two aluminium beer barrels awaiting collection – one banded in orange paint, the other lined with pink paint – now empty and drained after the weekend’s scorching Summer weather in the 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 1/500 seconds*
Jump for joy
A Roe Deer sprints across moorland on the top of Clougha Pike in Lancaster, UK in the hope of disappearing before I can see her; unfortunately for the Deer, I had a camera and she is now frozen in mid-flight within a photo and uploaded onto the internet!
*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-400, aperture at f/5.6, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/80 seconds*
Weather-worn
The silhouetted remnants of a tree, now brittle and dead, its limbs and boughs sheared away with Time’s decay and its armoured visage now dried and wizened by the Seasons’ affective rotation…
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 20.1mp digital Bridge camera with camera settings at ISO-100, aperture at f/5, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/4000 seconds*
Metallic Doppelganger
I had to do a double-take at this Heron as I walked past. It stood completely still next to a small garden pond, with no indication of movement even though I was barely three feet away, and I then quickly realised it was an ingenious garden sculpture of the real wading bird; a metallic Doppelganger to keep the real Herons’ away from the fish!
*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*
Glassware
*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-100, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/400 seconds*
Breaking cover
A silhouetted black Grouse breaks cover from the long grass, sounding its rasping alert call as the game bird panic flaps itself away.
*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-800, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/5000 seconds*
Stretch the Horizon 