Here's the thing that's causing the crazy high temperatures across most of England and Wales at the moment. Assisted, of course, by a bit of man-made climate change and a big, static area of high pressure over continental Europe. Sunset shots are a staple at the moment as walking the dog has been moved to late evening for an obvious reason (plus a couple of non-obvious reasons).

K3iii + DA55-300mm.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.




Steve

Do you use the carrot and stick approach - you dangle the homebrew in front of Mrs HG as an incentive to keep at it, carefully keeping it out of her reach until the job is done??

Steve

All credit to your post processing skills . I'm still wondering whether the same could have been achieved in-camera by tweaking processing parameters.

The K3 is still serving me well, it didn't suddenly get worse when I bought a K3iii. The K3iii is now what I walk around with, the K3 is fairly permanently attached to an indoor macro rig where there is no benefit from the improvements in AF speed, tracking and other areas that the K3iii brought. But the K3 would still be able to take the landscapes and wildlife photos which it was taking not so long ago if (perish the thought!) the K3iii were to be out of action.

Steve

What LennyBloke says

Were these straight-out-of-camera JPEGs? If so, some of the difference between the Pe's and Pa's might simply be due to in-camera processing choices made by the Pe and Pa developers. I wonder how close they could be made by adjusting in-camera image processing parameters? Could the Pe imitate a Pa or vice versa?

Steve

They're not so slow when nicely warmed up in a good compost heap . I've sometimes tried to photograph one but it's slithered through a tiny hole before I can get the blighter in focus .

Steve

Thanks folks, I'm pleased you like them. 'Look small' is something I learned a while ago. If the bigger picture is looks boring or (as for my pond) just looks a mess, look smaller and smaller and eventually something worth photographing will appear .

Steve

I was hoping for a frog, but the only things on the lily pads were rain drops and elderflowers blown off the nearby tree. Both with K3iii + DA*300mm f4 + 1.4TC and cropped.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

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Steve

My green garden waste goes onto the right hand heap of a pair of compost heaps. Each is 1m x 1m x 1m, a wooden post at each corner, tough plastic wind break mesh (lasted over 30 years so far!) for 3 sides, front made of removable frames holding wire mesh. When the right hand heap is over full and can't take any more, the left hand heap is ready to be emptied so is either dug into the garden immediately or bagged up for later use. The right hand heap is then decanted into the now empty left hand heap. The turning over and mixing does wonders for the quality of the end product, no slimy layers, no dry patches, no nasty smells, just nice, brown, crumbly compost. And a couple of frequent bonuses when decanting the heap are seeing the slow worms which hang around in the heap and a visit from a robin which knows a good source of bugs and worms when it sees it.

Happy composting .

Steve

I don't have comfrey but I do have stinging nettles and they are getting the same treatment in a bucket that's well away from the house so the smell won't matter. When it's ready, it's going on the rhubarb. I used to feed dried blood to the rhubarb, but that's not such a good idea now I've got a dog with a keen nose and a tendency to dig if it smells something interesting. Bonemeal and blood, fish 'n bone fertilisers have also been relegated to places that the dog can't reach.

Steve

Or use the money you would have spent on a new system to buy a gym membership - and use it

Steve