Test Flights

I've changed my camera body and all the images in this posting were taken as I familiarised myself with it.  The differences in operation are negligable, but I need to be able to use the camera intuitively.  There are so many things you can adjust without lowering the camera and it was the subtle differences here that I wanted to address.  I call it, "Photography by Braille".  Interestingly, Canon has put a little dimple in the head of the ISO-button so that your finger can be sure it's on the right button as you make adjustments through the viewfinder.  I shall be interested to see if I can still feel it in the winter!

Stourhead:

The Pantheon

 

Great Tit

The Temple of Apollo

This building is licensed for civil marriages, but I have to wonder how many of the invitations suggest 'stout shoes or boots'.  Access is up a very steep path that has been surfaced with stone sets to minimise erosion.  It has a definite camber.  The area around the temple is not metalled.  There is another, much longer route which is completely unpaved.

The Pantheon

Nuthatch at the Iron Bridge

Mallard using the bridge to cross the water

No jokes about duck-boards, please.

Coot

In my garden:

I took these through the glass whilst having a cup of coffee.

Goldfinch

I was struck by the way that it looked as if there was a mirror behind the feeder.

House Sparrow

Shapwick Heath:

I got up early on this morning and was in the hide not too long after sunrise.  (We've reached a time of the year when 'early' isn't too crazy an hour.)

Little Egret

Mute Swan.  'Breach of the Peace'

1966 Cessna 182

Greylake:

This was after an early lunch at Eco-Friendly Bites on the same day.

Mute Swan. 'In the soup'

This adult Little Grebe was resting peacefully on the water at what is usually a lazy time of the day ...

... when a juvenile appeared.  Both are seemingly nonchalant and I guessed that the adult was hoping the peace would be maintained.

Not to be!  Junior had other ideas.

Wow!  I'm going backwards!

Right side

Left side

Back side

Full frontal

It really ...

... really ...

... was this big, Mum

(You can tell they're fishermen, can't you?)

I've seen the grown-ups doing this

Phew

I think I've had enough

Back 'home'

Kids! ...

... What are they like?