Busy bees
A selection of images taken in the Physic Garden in Cowbridge using my 90mm F2.8 Macro lens (hand held) with varying settings that you can see by clicking on an image in the carousel.
Nature
Hedgehogs @ home
First, an apology. A bit of a glitch with the images for the previous post (and others on the site). Hopefully resolved. Not much to add to these images from last year. It’s been great to see these “little critters” on our patio. Although I have a wildlife camera, these were taken with the Sony …
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.
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.
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. …