The weather was meant to be sunny this morning: it wasn’t at 8.30am when I was trying out the new set up! (my Pentax Q and DA*300mm.) I was shooting 1/50th to about 200th second at 1680mm on a tripod. I got some ok results though considering most of these are cropped too. Female wigeon.…
DetailsHad another go at the ‘Meet the Neighbours’ style photos i.e. with a white background. Got some I’m pretty happy with.
Newt tadpoles
Lesser water boatman.
Colymbetes fucus Diving beetle.
A photo taken with a waterproof compact, in situ in a rockpool. Its a beadlet anemone, on Broad Haven Beach, Pembrokshire, Wales
A few more photos of the loggerhead turtles from Argostoli in Kefalonia.
Photographing more pond creatures today this lesser water boatman suffered from delusions of grandeur, sitting upside down at the surface like one of its larger relatives the greater water boatman . This algae eater is not going to kid anyone though, for as well as being smaller, it lacks that needle like mouth that the…
DetailsRegular readers will know I photograph pond creatures on a fairly regular basis, but up until today I have never managed a shot I’m happy with of a Water louse Asellus aquaticus. I catch them on most pond dips, but because they are so common, combined with the fact they have the habit tucking themselves…
DetailsYesterday I popped to the KWT Oare Marshes reserve. It was pretty quiet in terms of people and birds. I did see a little egret and I got a shot of it with my K5. I had gone to try out my Pentax Q on the DA*300mm with the adapter but the sun of course…
DetailsA couple of years ago I found a Ramshorn snail and decided to photograph it. I looked closer and I could see some white worm like creatures crawling over it. I struggled to work out what they were, but I recently asked around and was told by a member of the Wild about Britain forum…
DetailsSome photos from a snowy Wat Tyler Country Park.
Boardwalk
Saltmarsh
Statues
And some birds at the feeders:
Dunnock
Robin
