Spring is finally here in Cambridge, and sunny days with blue skies open up a new vista for photography!
Camera Settings: ISO100, f/5.6, 1/250 Camera: Nikon D7000 Lens: Sigma 105mm f/2.8
Red Anemone – backlit
Tag: Cambridgeshire
Red anemone
As promised, a picture of the red anemone flowering at home and complimenting the blue anemome that I posted previously.
Camera settings: f/5.0, 1/80, ISO100 Lens Settings: f/2.8, 105mm Sigma macro lens Camera: D7000
Tulip – 1
A tulip from my garden. I love the hint of yellow on the deep colours of the tulip suggesting a flame!
Camera Settings: ISO100, f/10, 1/20 Lens: 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens Camera: Nikon D7000
Christmas Cactus
This Schlumbergera truncata in my home is still flowering, well into April when I was expecting this to begin to set new branches for the coming year!
Technical details:
f/7.1, 1/30 second, ISO100, 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens, Nikon D7000
Daffodil
Surely nothing heralds more the coming of Spring than these cheerful daffodils. This variety is new to my garden and I’ve been so looking forward to them flowering!
The V1 flying bomb
The Imperial War Museum in Duxford has a fantastically preserved German V1 flying bomb dating back to 1944-1945. The V1 is one of the earliest weapons to use a pulsejet engine. With an effective range of 160 miles over 9000 of these were launched at the United Kingdom between June and October 1944 till their launch sites were overrun by Allied advances.
The above photo is a composite of 3 shots bracketed at -2, 0 and 2 eV and merged in Photomatix Pro.
Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB
The Hawker Hurricane was the workhorse fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. This particular plane on display at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, England was recovered from a crash site in Russia in 1941.
The Hurricane the first single-seat 8-gun monoplane fighter that entered service in 1937. In 1940, Hurricanes shot down more enemy aircraft that all the other defences combined. Source: IWM, Duxford.
Poppies..
Red on black-and-white is such a cool combination of colours. Red poppies in a wheat field, memories of a summer gone by!
Stalked UFOs amongst us!
Continuing with the fungal theme, here’s one I thought looked a lot like a flying saucer on a stalk (maybe eating them may have that effect!). Or one of those rides in a fairground. I’m not sure of the exact mushroom type but this may be a sort of milkcap.
A teeny tiny mushroom!
The rain and the damp here in East England has meant that there is a sudden explosion of mushrooms. Large and small, normal and strangely shaped, they’re all shooting up everywhere.. Here’s a tiny tiny mushroom that was shot at the closest approach I could make with my phone! I have selectively desaturated the background for emphasis.
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