Maria finished this bear today. I find photographing this colour and length of mohair difficult as it has a tendancy to give false colours and to reflect & refract light. I usually try a variety of setting both pre and post.
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Today we went down to Harpenden. Mum was having a party to celebrate here 80th birthday. You can find more photographs here. I spent some time watching and trying to photograph these birds. I am quite pleased with the end results but they don’t half move fast. The graininess is due to the high ISO (1600) I had to use to get a reasonable shutter speed (1/160), F5.6.
I didn’t get to post for the last two days but I’m back on track. Here is today’s photo Found this on the BBC news site – looks very interesting. I spent a few hours on this one, I’m rather pleased with the result. At Patchings today we heard lots of squawking most of the day, it was 4 or 5 magpies fighting over some food I had put out to get the local robins used to perching there.
Yes – another rose. They are so beautiful at this time of year. I’ve been watching our pond waiting for the first bud to open. Today it did. Post is a bit late – but the picture was taken on the 25th. |
