A recent trip to the Lake District saw me go one several interesting walks – in mostly good weather. These images are from the first walk there – a walk up High Snab Bank that if you continued up the track would lead to a summit on Robinson, and then back down alongside Scope Beck to the small lake. The weather on this day was very nice, and these are
Sheep Pans – well some shots of some sheep and some panoramas to be true full. These were all taking on the same day in North Yorkshire. The sheep ( rams ) were all seen on Fylingdales Moor, which is a large bit of moorland owned and managed by the Hawk and Owl Trust. Unfortunately on my visit – the only animals seen close up were sheep, which was slightly
Here are a selection of panoramas that I took in this year at Whitby from several locations. I used a new method of stitching these – using the panorama merge in Adobe Camera Raw. Then I processed the colours in Nik Color Effects. Here are the results.
Went on an Easter Sunday Afternoon wander around Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve in mixed Sun and Cloud weather. The wind making the later shots of this coot, interesting to take in the choppy lake. Fortunately on land it was easier. And for Easter – you have to take a bunny rabbit!
Took a Good Friday visit to Blashford Lakes, on a bright spring afternoon. As spring starts, so does the battle for the best breeding sites. This pair of black-headed gulls were laying claim to this floating raft on Ivy Lake, near the front of a hide. They squawked at any attempted trespassers and flew often in circles round it. Making a good platform to photograph this common seagull. This first
Over the past weekend, the woodland hide at Blashford Lakes, has been free at times to photograph some of the wild birds out of the windows. There have been a lot of Siskin there this year, and the selection of birds photographs taken over the weekend starts with a selection of shots of them. Other winter visitors included a Lesser Redpole and Reed Bunting. More all round visitors to the
I was fortunate to see a couple of Treecreepers today at Blashford Lakes, and managed to get this one in the frame, before a barking dog scared it off. In the rush I had not quite dialed in enough exposure compensation, so had to lift the bird in Adobe Camera raw. I am fairly pleased with the rescue of the shots. This first shot I have rotated into portrait format.
Yet another dreary grey Saturday, as seems to be the case this winter. However I decided to try to make the most of it photographically in the poor light this afternoon. Upon spotting this Common Sandpiper reasonably close to the Lapwing Hide at Blashford Lakes, I attempted some shots of it at various ISO’s – all the way from an ISO that is normally ok, ISO 800 on the 760D,
I had a look back at some of the first images I took on the converted Canon 20D Colour Infrared Camera, way back in January 2011. The White balance I had not correctly set, so the pictures looked bad on my original conversions. I decided to see what I could get from the images, using some of the new image processing software that I have acquired since then, and some
Today’s images all come from the Woodland Hide at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve. And fittingly they are all of Woodland Birds. It was nice to see a flock of Long-tailed Tits feeding on the suet feeder. Which even in dull overcast weather gave an opportunity to photograph them as they approached the feeder. Here are the best three images that I got today of them. Later on after walking around
