Beautiful morning!!

Hello all. I seem to have a well-entrenched habit now of heading out into Richmond Park on a weekend and coming back with a card full of pics to process... and this morning, being an absolute cracker, was no exception I got a load of shots today and thought I would post a handful (as usual) -still a ton to go through. Any C&C welcome. Hope you like them. Looks like we're truly into spring - here at least.

I started pretty early and it was quite misty, muting the light a little. Here's some of the ubiquitous blossom which is everywhere just now:



Freshly bloomed tulips:



A squirrel wakes up and does his morning stretches



A host of backlit yellow flowers:



A trio of rather splendid white flowers(I'm afraid I have no idea what they are!):



Red Deer Snr and Junior pad around looking for interest:



the aftermath of a coot fight - not the sharpest but I like the way it almost looks like a time-lapse picture:



Finally, having got home, this is a dandelion from my back garden!:



I was hoping to get some insect macros as well, but from an initial trawl of those which I took, I don't think i nailed the focus on any ... oh well, back again soon. I think all of these were taken with the DA* 300, although the coot fight may have been with the sigma 70-300...

Best Regards

Mat W

A nice set of images.

Regards

Thanks K10D!

Looking at the pics again I can see that the 4th pic (backlit yellow flowers) has some strange noise in the background - not sure why. Maybe it's an artefact from post-processing, or maybe something else. I think the picture was taken at ISO200 so I wouldn't have expected much noise in the picture... If anyone has any idea of the cause, I would be interested to know...

Regards

Mat W

Mat, that is a pleasant series. The flower in question may be a jonquil, and they are a member of the daffodil family. The time lapse shot is a nice touch.

The white 'dust' noise speckles on the LHS of the 4th shot are visible to me also. Did you pull the saturation down a fair way on that shot?

Thnaks Gareth and i-Berg. I probably did adjust the saturation down on that shot, although it wouldn't have been a very big adjustment I don't think. I must be something to do with that shot though because see it on any other of the pictures from yesterday. Must be my heavy-handed PP

Regards

Mat

2 and 3 for me, those are both great shots! Love the colour in 2, although the central tulip is a little ... err .. central! And perhaps rotate the squirrel a bit so it's more diagonal.

Thanks Tim - Good points - I think maybe I'll have a play with some cropping and rotating...

Regards

Mat W

Nice shots, lets hope there are still some blooms out next week when we arrive , that's if the airports reopen in time?