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Monthly Archives: April 2018

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Wood ants and Wood Anemones at Norsey Woods (and a bonus Snake’s Head Fritillary)

Last weekend I finally made it up to Norsey Wood to start my wood ant project. The bluebells have just started to flower, but to me they come second to my favourite forest flower, the wood anemone. I used my 300mm and teleconvertor for this shot, which helped get the nice clean background. It was…

April 24, 2018Leave a commentEssex, hymenoptera, Norsey Woods, Photography, Plant, wildflowerBy Neil-UKWildlife

Pond creature ‘Big stacks’ – Stacking using focus bracketing

After good feedback on some stacked images, over the last few months I have been trying to get close ups of various pond creatures using a technique known as stacking. For those that don’t know this involves taking a number of images focused at different focus distances, the in focus parts of each image are…

April 8, 2018Leave a commentbeetles, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, odonata, Photography, stackedBy Neil-UKWildlife
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