Reflected Moment

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A wander round a local nature reserve with a friend this evening.
This church always looks great, especially when it's calm and the reflection is clear.

Window to The Woods

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I went to a different wood this evening, on a guided walk. The bluebells here are spectacular, and incredibly dense in places.

It wasn't ideal conditions for photography - not great light, and quite windy, meaning camera shake and subject movement were a constant battle, whether handheld or on a tripod. I was also trying not to get too far behind the rest of the group, so I was trying to keep moving from that perspective too.
I think this is one of my favourites from the trip.

A couple more after the jump.

Twins / Blue Mist / Long Shadows

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I went for a wander in the woods today.
It was rather pleasant, and the bluebells were looking great.

A couple more after the jump.

Cheeky Corvids / Contortionist

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I went for a wander by the river this afternoon. These swans let me get remarkably close without spooking.
There were a few crows (or something similar, I can't tell!) hanging around the swans, trying to steal tail feathers. The swans were having none of it, and the crows got a honk, hiss, and/or nip for their trouble.
I was lucky enough to catch this one coming in for another go.
The swans then let me get even closer and carried on preening.

I took these with a 50mm lens on a full-frame body, so I was really quite close.

One more after the jump.

Race against time

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I feel like I'm drowning under a tidal wave today.
Work is utterly mad, and it's incredibly draining. I fear that we have so much work on, nothing will be done properly or in time.
On top of that, although I had a nice walk with the dogs, and cooked a tasty pizza, I have felt disproportionately down this evening. It took me ages to think of anything to shoot, and then when I eventually cut this bit off the "triffid" as I call the excessively productive beast of a plant that occupies half of the garden, it wilted pretty much before my eyes! This was supposed to be a photo stack, but the plant wilted by so much in the less than a minute it took to shoot the stack, that it was unusable!

A Forest of Capacitors

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A spot of electronic repair this evening, which turned out to be quite interesting - the failure wasn't strictly electronic, but one of the components had a fractured lead from metal fatigue caused by vibration.

Twiddling knobs

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Not the finest photo I've ever taken, but it is representative of my evening spent helping a family member's band get to grips with their new sound gear.
Not a bad little setup, and I've rather enjoyed my trip back into sound work.
Sadly, I'm not around to help at their first real gig with this new gear, but their regular sound man is doing a good job, and I hope the last couple of sessions with two heads on sound have been useful for him.