autumn

Shot for the day (28 March 2025)

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Powderham Castle gardens in late summer 2024.

You can find the most beautiful scenes in your own garden. Challenged by the Exeter Camera Club to shoot a macro scene I grabbed my favourite lens, a Pentax SMC FA 645 Macro 120mm. Autofocus is pointless at this size, so I had to manually focus the scene whilst trying not to interrupt the insect relaxing on the flower.

This was a leaf that had started to succumb to the autumnal change of colour, turning from green to this vibrant red.

I need a lot more practice but happy with the results. I will post some more images over the next few days.

Shot for the Day (10 October 2016)

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London Eye at dawn

Early yesterday morning, I stood opposite the London Eye to watch the dawn of a new day in London.  The shot above is a panorama of four shots stitched together of the south side of the River Thames.  The image is almost 18k pixels in width.

The shot below was taken a few moments before that, as the first light of day broke behind the Wheel.  The maintenance team still had the red lights on the wheel switched on and the so too for the Marriott County Hall Hotel.

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