On these very bright, sunny days, it is all too easy to over expose your images, and to “burn out” light colours. I spent a couple of hours in the gardens of Mount Stuart yesterday, experimenting with reflectors to both cut out direct sunlight and then reflect it using a second one. The chosen subjects […]
A quick trip around the island today resulted in another Black Guillemot photograph from under Rothesay harbour. It was also nice to capture silage making and I found a very large bracket fungus.
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Phil Click to see associated images
My apologies to those of you visiting the site and expecting to see newly posted bird images, but this is certainly the worst time of year for photographing birds, and the best time for photographing insects.
Why? Because most species of birds have just finished rearing broods and are looking very tatty , indeed, many are […]
It was the perfect day for insect photography today, warm, little wind, overcast, but with a good light, so I once again visited Calvary pond at Mount Stuart.
Almost immediately on my arrival, I saw damsels, dragonflies, beetles and numerous other insects, many of which, I am ashamed to admit, I could not identify. After about […]