A selection of garden birds
A few shots of the birds that have visited our garden this winter – with some encouragement from our feeding them it has to be said. A real joy in our enforced lockdown and semi-isolation.
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Fun with Pigeons
It has to be said, whether they like it or not – and of course they have no idea anyway – the comedians of the garden are the wood pigeons. Here, Mr and Mrs perform in front of our kitchen window using a Llanishen brick as their stage.
Colourful autumn carpets
The previous post presented the landscape of Parc Cefn Onn in autumn, these four shots focus on the leaf litter. The closing comment in that post pondered whether I shouldn’t have just used a faster 35mm prime lens, these shots using the same 24-105mm F4.0 lens justify the decision I made. Of course I could …
An autumn walk
DeeJay encouraged me to go up to Parc Cefn Onn whilst the sun was still shining and whilst there were still leaves on the tress. I was pleased I took his advice. Using just one lens (the Sony FE 24-105mm F4 G OSS) on my Sony ILCE-7RM3, but forgetting to switch on OSS (duh!), I …
A return to Bute Park
With the autumn colours beginning, it’s logical to return to Bute Park which has a fantastic collection of trees to capture the changes. But there are other things to see as well, including this cormorant drying its wings in the middle of the River Taff upstream of the National/Millennium Stadium (or whatever it’s called now). …
The treasure that is Bute Park
I’ve been to Bute Park, Pontcanna and Llandaff Fields four times in the past few weeks. Lockdown has forced us all to re-appraise what’s on our doorstep and in Cardiff’s case, we are blessed with some wonderful parkland. Here are a few shots I’ve taken this summer of things that have caught my eye. Click …
A wonderful show of orchids
One of the few joys this year, in spite of being in self-isolation, has been to enjoy the show that our orchids have put on for us. I seem to have worked out how best to ensure that they re-generate blooms and this paid dividends through the summer to allow us to enjoy them in …
Summer’s over
That was quite a shock! I looked at the last post on the blog and found it was June 29th. Now I know it’s been a strange year, and I know I haven’t taken as many photographs as I usually have done, but I was surprised to see my output to this blog, to Flickr …
Cropping makes the image
Sometimes after carefully staging your photograph, and cropping it following some of the standard rules, you then look at the image … … and think … “would that make two better images?” So what do you think? I think they might stand better as two images side-by-side rather than one. …
Playing with a long lens
Len, a U3A friend, has been imploring me to spend loads of cash on a new long lens. I’ve resisted! He’s taken some remarkable photos of birds using high ISO values – admittedly from distance – I wanted to play with using my 200mm lens at about 3-4m from the subject. Lockdown provided the opportunity …