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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The glistening path
A downpour’s excess water glistens and glints as it snakes away into the surrounding moorland, intent on escaping the overhead glare.
*Shot on a Samsung WB500 10mp compact camera with settings at ISO-80, lens set at 28mm, aperture at f/7.5, centre weighted average meter mode and an exposure time of 1/1000 seconds*
Caught in the glare
This freshly-shorn Ewe and her Lamb have been startled by the camera’s flash and caught frozen in mid-step, their eyes’ reflecting the light back like mirrored discs in the pitch dark of the night.
*Shot on a Panasonic Lumix FZ38 12MP ‘super-zoom’ bridge camera set at ISO-800, lens at 45mm, aperture set at f/3.6, centre weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/50 seconds*
Heather buds
A whiff of Spring in the air and the colours begin to blaze as the buds’ bloom…
*Shot on an Olympus E-P1 12mp micro 4/3 system digital camera with a Sirius 28mm f/2.8 close focus macro lens and camera settings at ISO-160, f/2.8, centre weighted metering mode and an exposure time of 1/100 seconds*
Raise the flag!
No matter what the weather may bring, this Sailing Club’s standard must be hoist to the top of the flagpole each and every morning without fail…
*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-200, aperture at f/7.1, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/1600 seconds*
Cold feet (slight return)
This Duck has become some kind of ‘avian ice breaker’, paddling through the shattered plates of ice as it races to reach some thrown bread, just out of shot.
*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-200, aperture at f/6.3, spot metering mode and an exposure time of 1/3200 seconds*
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