Staycation??? The world consists of Dorset and foreign. But being friendly and welcoming folk, we don't have passport checks at the county border - yet!!!

Staying anywhere in particular? You're very welcome, wherever it is.

Steve

PS: Please don't bring any nasty viruses with you - we're near the bottom of the league table and proud of it!

Looks like you're getting the hang of the Q .

Yes, the screen can be a pain in bright light, but with practice it gets gets more manageable. Sort of combining whatever you can see on the screen with what you can see normally to make an inspired guess - sounds messy but it can be done.

The Q + 06 can be surprisingly good for wildlife, particularly if the creature isn't moving fast, you use raw and are willing to do some post-processng if necessary. It won't match a DSLR, of course, but is still useful for all sorts of creatures (as well as squirrels...). Here's an example (DNG, cropped, contrast tweaked, sharpened). Over to you now!




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Doesn't the ferry to the Scilly Isles have a flat bottom, specially designed to induce sea-sickness in grockles ?

Steve

Thanks folks.

The hideous thing in No. 2 is what a wet bumble bee having a bad hair day looks like from the front. It was crawling very slowly so I had the chance to get a head-on shot, which is a rare thing in my experience because the head of a bee usually points towards or is in a flower.

No need for me to overdo the colours of crocosmia - nature got there first!

Go on, you know you really want to. At the very least, it's an excuse to get a new lens (or two...) .

Steve

You tried it and it worked!

It's the contrast between the light and texture of the clouds and the light and texture of the foreground that does it for me - the wind farm is almost (but not quite) superfluous .

Steve

User modes are useful if you might need to change a number of settings quickly or you occasionally use a set of settings that you might not remember. For example, I've got one of my user modes set up for birds in flight. So if I'm looking for butterflies in bushes but see a lesser spotted wibbly bird taking to the wing, it's quick and easy to change to reasonable settings before the bird disappears.

Steve

A lovely set. It looks like you took the right lens, in spite of the wind!

Is No. 4 Common Agrimony link? I'm not convinced that No. 6 is marjoram, but willing to be proved wrong. Do you have a picture of the rest of the plant?

Steve

Well spotted, well taken, enough interesting shape and light to draw you in, very nice. And much more interesting than the muted, flat, pale grey stuff above me at the moment...

Steve

Whoever said 'Never work with children and animals' knew what they were talking about...

Worth taking, though.

Steve

... when the rain eventually stopped a few minutes in the garden with a camera brightened up the mood. Bugs had begun to venture out, while crocosmia (Montbretia) is just getting into its colourful stride with flower buds swelling and starting to glow. Here are some of the results. The second is a wet, bedraggled bee that had presumably misjudged the weather.

All K3 + Irix 150mm.

Thoughts, comments etc. welcome as usual.

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