A success for the scientific approach!

Steve

Nice one! The background sets it off perfectly and the lighting is spot on.

A type of wasp?

Steve

There's something attractive about the blotchy leaves wth blotches in the first - autumn as it really is rather than carefully selected, perfect leaves. Similarly with half of the blackberries in the third having been eaten already.

Poppies - I saw some a couple of days ago at the edge of a field. Not sure they will survive the weather that's forecast for the next few days though...

Steve

Thanks folks. This was yet another trip when I took the 16-85mm for sweeping vistas and the F 135mm for detail and ended up with the F 135 on the camera most of the time. Either the gardens weren't planted for big, wide views or I'm not seeing them. Interesting...
It really was wonderfully enormous - one of those trees that makes you feel very, very small!

Steve

Agree with both the above. There's no substitute for trying both with and without SR and finding which works best for you. Take shots of the sort of thing you use a monopod for, both with and without SR, and repeat each several times (SR won't get it right every time, it's a matter of probabilities, so mustn't judge it on the basis of one or two shots). Shouldn't take more than half an hour. The way you shake with a monopod (and I mean it seriously!) may not be the same as how I do, so what works for you may not work for me and vice versa. In fact, when I use a monopod the biggest involuntary movement is small forwards and backwards motion and SR can't handle that. Not a big problem for landscapes, but a pain for close up/macro...

Steve

A few acers and a couple of others from a wander round the park at Kingston Lacy house on Monday. Many of the leaves on the acers had dry, brown tips or edges presumably because of weather conditions in recent weeks/months, so I couldn't get the perfect 'red glowing leaf' shot (at least not without annoying the people I was with who were not at all interested in individual leaves). Still, it was a pleasant wander and the coffee cake in the cafe was excellent .

All K3 + F135mm f2.8.

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Me too. Good value at less than 3p/day - until you add up the cost of the kit you've decided to buy because of something you've seen on the forum .

Steve

Wow! That certainly is colour!

RHS Harlow Carr does seem to be popular with PU folk this year. Interesting how those of us who have posted pictures have each seen it quite differently through the viewfinder. And long may it remain so!

Steve

Magical!

Interesting how the way you view a picture can change how you see it. With the tablet screen in landscape layout, the picture wouldn't fit on the screen so I had to scroll up and down to see it all. The picture appeared to be of a single lavender stem/flower with an interesting, colourful background. But turning the screen to portrait layout and expanding the picture to fill the screen, the riot of colour and movement became the main (abstract) subject, with the lavender stem/flower as secondary but giving a remarkable sense of depth while pulling the different strands and patches of colour to a single point of focus. It seems to depend on whether or not the background can be seen and understood as a complete entity. Do I have a strange mind? Some people think so...

Steve

Thanks folks. I'll admit to being lucky with the sun with No. 3 .

Yes, perfect fror this sort of thing. It came from a bloke who didn't want it any more - I wonder if he's regretting it now.. .

Steve