Some microscopy

I set up the stereoscopic microscope to try out the latest camera (Pentax Optio) to put it through its paces. The results were disappointing, too blurred. So it is back to the trusty Nikon.

Parsley seeds
Top - Pentax. Bottom - Nikon

Playing around with different lighting angles on ammonites

Getting my act a bit more together

It's been  a while since the last post.So much for my good intentions of doing this on A Regular Basis!

The ideas are there but at the moment they are not getting much opportunity to show themselves at their best.

So... in an attempt to give myself fewer excuses for procrastination, a reminder to self when the brain fog looms as to what I could fill some space with:

• randomly choose a photograph from the thousands and write a haiku

• get out the microscope do some photography

• no excuses for lack of inspiration go to this site

• chain events on a Google journey

• work on some photographic themes

• reading matters - things I have learned in the last few days

oh yes, and keep calm and don't worry!

A brilliant number

Doorway

Plodging through the clart (part 2)

Escaping the muddy morass that is the garden at the moment, we headed for the cemetery on Sunday. A vast calm expanse of history, interspersed with many yew trees.

A wonderful environment for mosses and lichens. Some of the gravestones looked as if a lichened rusty tap had been endlessly dripping down their faces. Others seemed to be engraved by moss.

The vast variety of form and epitaph was fascinating, all provoked thoughts about lives of the past.

This one in particular. Why no details of her birth or death dates, her husband or family? Someone thought enough of her to put up this substantial stone, but who was Mrs Harriet Bray?

Apparently there are guided tours of the cemetery in the summer, so maybe we will find out.

Water flea

Water Flea Waltz from Wim van Egmond on Vimeo.

Such stunning photography!