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Stopping in the mountains of Switzerland for a break in our journey, a picturesque scene off the service area -



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Taken just before Christmas.


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A Robin in the Snow.

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Happy NY to you all!

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Evening light catching the underside of a few remaining leaves


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And to you Graham.

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An air frost presented some interesting macro opportunities yesterday. First time I’ve used Sony’s 90mm macro and it took some fathoming. 
It’s a basic 90mm lens that only works in true Macro when you go into manual focus mode. I really should have spent more time perfecting it but it was at least -100C, and in my slippers, I wasn’t hanging about. 



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Eric wrote:
An air frost presented some interesting macro opportunities yesterday. First time I’ve used Sony’s 90mm macro and it took some fathoming. 
It’s a basic 90mm lens that only works in true Macro when you go into manual focus mode. I really should have spent more time perfecting it but it was at least -100C, and in my slipper, I wasn’t hanging about. 



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And our now ‘whiskery’ old lawn dragon….




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Footnote….

A beautiful adult male great spotted woodpecker came to the feeders today and sat in bright sunlight on a branch. 

A perfect image…..but not with a bl*dy 90mm macro lens on the camera :whip:

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Interesting - I must have an experiment with macro again!

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Two more and that’s it!



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Super pixs Eric! They took a long time to load down, perhaps just my internet at school homework time?

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Super pixs Eric! They took a long time to load down, perhaps just my internet at school homework time? Thanks Graham. First time I picked up the camera this year. 
i suspect I didn’t downsize the images, hence the sloooow speed.

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chrisbet wrote:
Interesting - I must have an experiment with macro again! The Sony macro lens is a bit weird….but nice weird. As previously mentioned, it’s a normal functioning 90mm lens in auto focus mode that has a close focusing distance of around 18”. Not exactly macro! But switching it into manual focus mode (which is preferable for macro anyway) and it suddenly allows focusing down to a couple of inches! It just won’t let you use auto focus at the close distance.  That said it has a lovely zoom function which kicks in as soon as you turn the manual focus ring. The significantly enlarged view makes it really easy to get accurate focus.

The limitations of these shots were due to the old favourites…..too large an aperture used reducing dof and not using a tripod to keep the camera at the focussed distance. The steady shot does operate but in my experience not as well in macro as with more distant subjects. (I think Nikon said that with their 105mm micro lens the lens stabilisation doesn’t work at distances closer than 1 metre.)

I was considering selling this 90mm macro but have decided it will stay for a little longer. It depends on how much appetite I have for perfecting macro.

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What size are those JPG images Eric.  The JPGs load really slowly even over fibre broadband.

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What size are those JPG images Eric.  The JPGs load really slowly even over fibre broadband. They are 22mb except the last one which is ….more! Sorry 

if you want to delete the last two images,  I will reload lower res versions…




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No worries but I could almost see the electrons in the frozen water!
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No worries but I could almost see the electrons in the frozen water!
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It’s a work in progress…. was trying to capture van der waal’s forces.

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I like those Eric. As Jonathan says the detail in the full res ones is amazing .

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I'm very happy with mine.

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Alpine Rescue, last week on the Eiger.

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Alpine Rescue, last week on the Eiger.

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Was that from moving train through glass, Graham?
Very sharp from that old camera. :thumbs:

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Amazing depth of field too!

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Yes through glass moving train. These first two are more through glass moving mostly ar 24mm lens setting last two of the train and boat on lake Como are normal shots no glass!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4X47zqGtTE     

Link to the UTube short film I made with the Sony RX1`0 of the Matterhorn.

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Didn't get a chance to take any winter photos this year but uncovered some older scenes while thinning the archives and "retraining" Photoshop with Mac....



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Those are nice.

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Sun after the rain - must be April.




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It must be Spring. Artic winds and near zero nights don’t deter the Walnut tree.


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The May tree is right on cue ....



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The May tree is right on cue ....



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its the one tree we have struggled to get growing well in our garden for some reason.

I have been considering grubbing out some old leylandii hedging and planting May and Blackthorn for the birds.

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We have a black mulberry in the garden - I grew it from seed many years ago - it is so robust and grows well, the birds love the mulberrys. I pollard it and the May tree every 4 or 5 years to keep them in check and stimulate bushy growth.

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Here is the mulberry just breaking into leaf -


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and a couple of other bird and bee friendly plants -



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At long last I managed to find a Lord Lambourne apple tree - its first flowers this year -


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Is the Mulberry tree the same as a Mulberry bush only bigger?

My father had a bush and it cropped heavily every year with large lush sweet berries….that the bugs and wasps surprisingly left alone! Or maybe it was my Dad standing guard over them as they ripened. lol

It was at least 90years old and we were sad to lose it when Dad died and the house was sold. 

We left an inventory of all the garden shrubs for the incoming people. Sadly they were property developers and put a huge decking with bifold doors across the back so we don’t know if the aged Mulberry Bush still survives.

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There are lots of different varieties of mulberries but their form depends on how you grow them. You could create a bush by pruning - they grow fast, mine puts on at least 4 or 5 feet each year. If the birds would leave me any fruit I would make wine from them - it is delicious!

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I suppose this is an any season phenomenon.

Anyone else up at 1am last night with their iPhone? 

Tried using Sony and have to say results were lack lustre difficult to get settings right. Good old iPhone knew exactly what setting to use. Although the 2 sec exposure was too much of a challenge for hand holding on some photos.






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Not bad - we didn't see anything here - fog had moved in!

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chrisbet wrote:
We have a black mulberry in the garden - I grew it from seed many years ago - it is so robust and grows well, the birds love the mulberrys. I pollard it and the May tree every 4 or 5 years to keep them in check and stimulate bushy growth. The weeds grow well in my backyard but that's about the only thing. :lol:  Very easy to grow though. :thumbs:

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Not bad - we didn't see anything here - fog had moved in! Fingers crossed it clear tonight as the forecast is for it to continue. ( it’s still happening even now but the pesky sun….o.O)

May try mounting iphone on tripod and doing video tonight.




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Well it was a bit of wash out last night…so went to bed early to catch up.

Three more from Friday night….



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Definitely May...



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Yes it definitely is May. We don’t have a May blossom in the garden (it died) but Mrs Antony Waterer is our May visitor…..



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Bird bird is a supporting act…



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And a new addition.. Scilla Persiani ..seems to want to join in.




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Apologies, all iPhone photos as the Sony was locked away at that moment.

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Beautiful - sadly our soil is very alkaline and we have no success with rhodos :thumbsdown:

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Trying out my Sony 70-200mm F2.8 with a 2x TC
Yellow Flag Iris.



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Some super flowers there, thank you all for showing us!

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Nice shots Eric.

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At last some Summer flowers, iPhone

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My total pickings this morning! 1st of the season but not doing too well, the weather has not been good this year flowers are doing bit better. Sony A1 with 24-105mm lens.

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Lovely flowers and a crop ….with prospects.

Graham you could have combined your ‘crop in the hand’ photo alongside the Mesembryanthemum flower in one image. They both have a common geometric content, with a circular splayed out appearance and a rich centre. 

Sorry, getting carried away with design memories and I haven’t taken my medications yet.:lol:

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Nice pics Graham.

Keep taking the tablets Eric. :lol:

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Like this Eric?

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One for Eric as we both have the same rose "The Lady"  All these flowers on the head of one stem!! Sony RX10 Camera.

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One for Eric as we both have the same rose "The Lady"  All these flowers on the head of one stem!! Sony RX10 Camera.

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Luvly.  It’s a pity the viewers can’t smell its beautiful scent. Intoxicating.

Nice vase Graham…it’s worthy of a photo in its own right. :thumbs:

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Flowers in our garden today  Sony A1 with 90mm Macro lens.

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Wow - need sunglasses - very vibrant colours

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Even a Night Fury can be enchanted by this 10mm beauty.



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Nice DoF on that.

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Iain wrote:
Nice DoF on that. A bit of Focus Fun.:-)

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Bergamot head..



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No I haven't turned to Buddhism; the wife has several miniature statues and creatures scattered around her alpine gardens. 

I was sat having a contemplative beer, after a morning chainsawing trees (my style of woodland management lol) and saw Buddha caressing this alpine. 

Just like me and my chainsaw. :lol:



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Cold Autumns seem to be disappearing from much of the UK, probably due to global warming. The milder, wetter, windy conditions we have seen in recent years mean the sudden shock to trees has been avoided, resulting in a slow and less dramatic colour change in foliage. Well that's my take and excuse for not grabbing lots of better autumn leaf colours this year. The event was over in a flash. Mildly discoloured leaves blown to the ground before any time to mature in plain sight. 

Here are a few shots where I really had to work hard on camera angles to fill the frame with colour, from the somewhat bedraggled widely dispersed specimens and those who had already given up their autumn display for 2024.





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I like those Eric.

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Some good ones there Eric. I must get my camera out before it is all too late!

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Thx. Just a few more from our trip...




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Last Light: just after days of dull light the sun came out 5.15 this evening for less than 5 mins, on my late walk in our local park. Quality no great iPhone photo.

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The old adage of “the best camera is the one you have to hand” comes to mind. The beauty of mobile phones is they are invariably in your pocket. Without it being there, you would have missed capturing the special moment.

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Well I used my iPhone for my Christmas card image.


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but I much prefer the images from my Z7 which I need to resize to upload here.


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