Wedding blessing EM1x

Yesterday I had to polish up on my old skills as a wedding photographer. A blessing in the church for one of dear friends daughter.

Here's...
 

Odds and sods in Cardiff

Spent two nights in Cardiff and managed to get a few things while avoiding the rain.








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Hummingbird hawk-moth - High and Low energy states..

We got lucky and saw one of these land on a wall to warm up in the sun recently in the gardens at a National Trust property. Taken with the OM-1 Mkii...
 

Steps to hell

Oly 12-200 again, a very handy lens.


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Captured with the 12-200

From distance, I rather liked the `fugitive` background. Seemed apt somehow.

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Exacta Varex VIIa with lenses and adapter

ยฃ300 Shipped in the UK with ยฃ10 of that to the forum. I'll also include the Exa to M4/3 adapter which is mint and fits both lenses.

Beautiful...
 

Monarch

I don't see a lot of the Monarch Butterflies until Autum as they migrate south.

OM-1 with Olympus F2.8 40-150mm

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This morning.......early!

Caught this just before sunrise this morning.

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Two-lined Spittlebug & Clouded Plant Bug

OM-1 with Olympus F2.8 60mm Macro Lens

Two-lined Spittlebug (Prosapia bicincta)



Trying to show the red underside...
 

KR Diffusers

Wow. What a Macro Meister Kev Russell is. https://krmacrodiffusers.com/. Mine cost ยฃ44 plus postage, got 2 as a photographer friend wanted one and so...
 

Speckled Wood



Immaculate condition. It lives in a Polytunnel...
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Iberian Red Fox

This fox was running through the park this morning...
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Great north nun

One from the great north run the other weekend to lighten the mood on a particularly wet wednesday

made me laugh when I took it but what...
 

Heritage Open Day - St Ives

Having recently moved area, I thought that there'd be lots of places to visit for Heritage Open Day but was sadly disappointed because when I looked a...
 

Fly (2014)

This old image seems to have been digitally processed, resized and saved as a TIFF. Here it is as a JPEG.

Olympus EM-1, Kiron x 1.5 TC, Printing...

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Careful now...............Dean Forest Railway on Saturday. Lumix GH6.

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