It is that time of the year again! Autumn – when gigantic spiders make their way into the house and make webs in every available nook and cranny! And this one below (garden cross spider) made a huge web (almost a metre in diameter) between my beans and tomato plants.. Shudder!!!
There is this rose bush in my garden which struggles to survive every year regardless of what I try to do make it feel happy. But year on year it produces one or two of these really vibrant flowers in autumn! Just one of two roses sadly before the winter frosts kick in.
Technical Details:
Nikon D7000 with a 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens
f/18, 1/250 second, ISO200
Remote slave flash SB800
This year I grew cosmos plants for the first time (from seed that too).. and they’ve now grown to a height of about 2 metres!! Lovely pink flowers held up on thin stalks. The height of these flowers means that they’ve opened themselves up to being photographed from underneath against the backdrop of the blue sky (as below).
Technical Details:
Nikon D7000 with 105mm f/2.8 Sigma macro lens
ISO200, 1/100sec, f/13 manual mode
PP in Adobe Lightroom 5.5
Audley End house is a magnificent example of a 17th century stately home near Saffron Walden in Essex. The property was also once a royal palace in the time of Charles II (1668) who purchased the property for £5 in order to be able to attend races at Newmarket. Audley End is now managed by English Heritage but all paintings and period decorations are from the original time and form part of a private collection.
HDR composed of three bracketed shots at -2, 0 and +2 exposures and processed in Photomatix Pro. Please click on the photo for a larger version.
At the top of the Barcelona Cathedral, round windows reminiscent of hobbit dwelling windows!
I’d read before that Birmingham was successful as a manufacturing site due to the canals that allowed the transport of raw material to and export of finished items from this city.
In my many visits to England’s second city this was the first time I made it anywhere close to a canal. First impressions – I need to come back here again prepared for photography.
Humans have this infinite capacity that creates monsters out of every day objects. Children show this the most and reflect their inner fears in shadows and other inanimate items. Would you care to find your monster from this photo of a fountain?
Probably not what you were expecting!
A deserted beach on Mackinac Island, Michigan on the shores of Lake Huron.
Juridicious 