Raindrops

Raindrops in water

Raindrops by Alf Branch, on Flickr...
 

Fly Agaric Amanita muscaria

The Fly Agaric A. muscaria is toxic.

Olympus EM-1, (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, f11, hand-held.

The stereo...
 

I am sure I could get in before?

I have an adjustable bird table and it was down earlier and the magpie, pigeons, collared doves all had a feed.
I raised the gap to a smaller size...
 

Busy Busy Busy



Only one castle out of three in this landscape...

Towy Valley
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Mainly birds from Wooleen (final episode)

The last lot of mainly birds from my Wooleen trip. To anyone who has got this far, thanks for looking -


A couple of drinking Zebra...
 

Mainly birds From my Wooleen trip (part3)

Another set of pictures from my Wooleen Station trip

A sunrise - it was much later that I thought "could have tried the gradND",...
 

Red Kite over the Towy Valley



OM-5 and the 40-150mm

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Tonights Moon.

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Berries

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Bobcats!

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Few from the River today

Little Ouse river today, short walk yielded well...
 

A few more morning birds

No clouds, flowers are gone. Just birds for now.

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3 bands at Melbourn Rock Club

Last weekend it was back to the local rock club to see three bands. The usual sound and lighting chap wasn't there, and whilst the sound was better, the...
 

I'm getting started and - probably - hooked on astro photography!

Here's my snap from Grassholme Observatory (near Barnard Castle, Durham, UK) last week at 23:28 after an exciting evening talk and time with nice telescopes...
 

Wells

After a short visit to Glastonbury, it was a hop over to Wells for a quick two hour look around. Highlight of course was the magnificent Vicars Close....

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