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.
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 …
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. …
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 …
A fair bit of controversy around this theme as some of the group felt that flowers were meant to be in colour, not black and white, well … here’s both!
As Covid-19 Lockdown kicked in, the Cardiff U3A Photography Group started a weekly theme – posting a single image in our Flickr Group. I, of course couldn’t stop at one image, so here’s the set of images I took on the theme of “Isolation”.
Out of sequence, but too exciting to wait. Jenny had seen this bird (or a relative) twice before in the garden, once when it actually flew in at high-speed and tried to attack finches on the bird feeders, the other time just sitting like this one in the apple tree having missed it’s prey and …
What a lovely day! The garden is beginning to looked cared-for again, so a break for a cup of tea and a couple of snaps. The Australian corner, and below a couple of roses. Both are at their best this year.
Now I’m not a “visiting gardens man” normally, but this spring I had the opportunity of visiting three excellent gardens near Leominster and Presteigne in The Marches. Here are some of the images I took which I’m particularly happy with. This is near the cafe (a tithe barn) at Stockton Bury, an apple orchard. An …
I was given an infra-red filter for Christmas and I’m ashamed to admit I hadn’t made the time to “play” with it until this afternoon. Here are three “random” shots from the garden. The subject matter is not fantastic, it’s just the start of a journey. Once I get the hang of it, the …