Thursday, 20 October 2016
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Phone photography
I have been using the Phonescope attachment I bought from the RSPB.
Both the sundew and butterwort are about to flower at the moment. Each is sending a long stalk into the air to attract insects. Meanwhile, lower down, the plants continue to catch flies in their leaves and so getting the best of both worlds.
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| Butterwort flower bud |
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| Sundew flower bud |
There is lots of new growth in the sundew. It is lovely to see the light catch on the leaf edges as the leaves unfurl.
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| sundew leaf |
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| sundew leaf |
The cucumber plant is growing apace and tendrils are beginning to appear. It won't be long now before I can take some time lapse of them coiling round the bamboo support.
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| cucumber tendril |
It is amazing how much detail can be seen. The hooks on the hind wing of the honey bee are clearly visible.
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| honey bee wing showing hooks |
Finally, a "guess what"!
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
A sunny day, at last!
We have had weeks and weeks of rain and storm, so when the sun shone at the weekend we made the most of it with a walk to Williamson Park and the Ashton Memorial.
The butterfly house was open, not many butterflies were around, though there were plenty of cocoons ready to burst into butterfly.
The butterfly house was open, not many butterflies were around, though there were plenty of cocoons ready to burst into butterfly.
Using some of the photographs I took I have been trying out some techniques in Photoshop.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Saturday, 7 November 2015
Friday, 2 October 2015
Hoverflies and bike ride
The weather over the last few days has been wonderful.
The other afternoon I sat in the garden for ages watching hoverflies and bees visiting the Michaelmas daisies and Cystus (I think the pink flowers are Cystus....) I set up the camera on the tripod, focused on a flower head and waited for something to land and then fired the remote control to take images every second.
Yesterday I went on a bike ride to Glasson Dock - what with it having been dry for a while, together with the wonderful blue skies I elected to go via the canal and come back the way I usually take via the river.
The path along the canal is not a designated cycle path and at times it felt a bit precarious. A narrow way has been worn by walkers, but trying to keep the bike wheels on it felt a bit like tightrope cycling.
The sun was glorious, though blinding at times, I was glad there were few people around, otherwise a dip in the canal would have been likely.
It was a great day for reflections.
The other afternoon I sat in the garden for ages watching hoverflies and bees visiting the Michaelmas daisies and Cystus (I think the pink flowers are Cystus....) I set up the camera on the tripod, focused on a flower head and waited for something to land and then fired the remote control to take images every second.
This one was taken using the rapid fire burst option on the camera
Yesterday I went on a bike ride to Glasson Dock - what with it having been dry for a while, together with the wonderful blue skies I elected to go via the canal and come back the way I usually take via the river.
The path along the canal is not a designated cycle path and at times it felt a bit precarious. A narrow way has been worn by walkers, but trying to keep the bike wheels on it felt a bit like tightrope cycling.
The sun was glorious, though blinding at times, I was glad there were few people around, otherwise a dip in the canal would have been likely.
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| Trying to catch the sunbeams |
It was a great day for reflections.
(For the record: total distance 14.14 miles; average speed 6.2 mph (lots of photography stops and bike pushing in the really dodgy bits; maximum speed 12.8 mph)
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