A good day on dries with Jim Donnelly.
At last, a half-decent day of conditions on Coldingham – albeit decidedly cool in the morning, given recent temperatures. The water was carrying a lot of Volvox algae, making it look a bit like the Olympic diving pool, but it was not bad enough to stop the fish from seeing the flies we offered them.…
A few interior shots of the Scottish National Gallery on The Mound, plus a few of some of my favourite paintings. Most shots taken with the EF 24 mm f2.8 IS lens. This allows hand-holding at shutter speeds as slow as 1/3 sec, making indoor flash-free shots at low ISO a breeze. Later shots taken…
Not sure what species this is. He appears outside the back of the house at dusk. There is a small window of a couple of weeks where the light is late enough to overlap with his emergence time for long enough to give me a chance to try and snap him. Very tricky using ordinary…
After a bit of a heatwave during the week, the conditions turned out a lot cooler than most of us were expecting. However, they were pretty decent – a moderate southerly breeze and good cloud cover for most of the day. Ed Green and I started out on sedgey dries, having seen sedges in evidence,…
