Last November I decided to have a day out photographing for wildlife, but rather than head out into the countryside of East Anglia, I instead headed in to London. This may seem like a strange place go for wildlife, but there is plenty to be seen and much of it relatively easy to approach. I…
Last month I had an early morning walk around Wat Tyler CP. It was a typical chilly autumn morning, with the rising sun was warming things up slowly. I was hoping for some dewy webs, but was not in luck. I did however find this Garden Spider sitting on a leaf. It was hard to…
Back in May/June I had a number of froglets around my pond and some would sit for me nicely, so I thought I’d try some image stacks of them. (You can find out more about how I make these these stacks/stacked images here). I got some nice results: Of course I had a few failures…
In the last few months I have posted a number of stacked images of live invertebrates (and occasionally vertebrates!) and people have asked two questions: 1. What is stacking/a stacked image? 2. How did you get a subject to sit still for 99+ shots? This blog should hopefully clear things up. What is a stacked…
Last weekend I was playing with my camera in my father-in-law’s garden. We were comparing the results to my sister in law’s high-end compact camera by photographing a small flock of starlings on a neighbours roof. The 300mm with 1.4x tele was far superior as expected, but then it is multiple times the price! I…
As you may have gathered from my last post I have traded in most my Pentax gear and switched to Olympus, giving me superior effective focal length and much better auto focus. I had a trip to Rainham Marshes today with my 1 year old in the buggy, so no serious waiting around, but still…