A close up abstract of a poppy petal…such large and delicate things – they don’t stand a chance in the wind and rain.
Peter Bargh
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Plan A was to photograph tonight’s lunar eclipse, but with all the will in the world, and no access to the largest wind machine in the universe, the cloud isn’t going to shift. So there’s no moon and I need a plan b. Fortunately I took one photo this evening on my way back from the post office. A quick grab shot on the iphone will have to do today.
It’s of the canal that runs through Worksop and this is from the back end of the town centre. I like the fact it gives a feeling of the old town, quite industrious looking still.
Well actually having looked it up, it’s not really a caterpillar, it’s a larvae from the sawfly. I get these every year on my Solomon’s Seal plant that I photographed earlier in my photo365 series.
The species is known as the Solomon’s seal sawfly. I got up close using the Pentax K5 and 100mm macro lens.
I’ve shot vertically to show another part of the leaf that’s been eaten away.
These pests strip the plant after its flowered and create a skeleton structure.
“Never shoot into the sun” was something you were always told not to do. That was in the days of standard coated lenses with minimal exposure control. The modern cameras are pretty good at coping, as can be seen here with the Olympus EP2 and its 17mm f/2.8 lens. I took this tonight when I decided to break routine and go for a cycle along Worksop canal. This is around lock 23. It has a pocket of warm light on a clear evening and the light is golden. After walking or cycling on a path that’s relatively dark and sheltered from sun, reaching this bit is quite magical.
We had a pond. At one end was a water feature on an incline with a few pond type flowers around the cascade and a stray poppy.
The filter pump went so we decided to fill it in. Bricks from the incline wall were used to fill the main part of the pond and the soil was transferred to cover the brick, ready to pave over with a patio. I’ve not got round to paving so we have a pond shaped patch of soil and on that patch have sprung poppies.
So from that one stray poppy on the small bank of the incline the whole bed has been covered …and this was the site this morning – the first of the flowers to appear.
There are going to be hundreds on this colourful but messy looking area. I’m going to be taking a lot of abstract photos in the coming days.
I was at the petrol station today and, as I’m sure you’re aware, the cost to fill up a tank is now stupendous. Will it soon be as valuable as gold? Perhaps that’s why they supply gloves!
I came back with what I’d intended to shoot…a bunch of shots of poppies, but it was this shot that made me think, so it’s today’s photo365.
I bought some tape…like Sellotape… but from a pound shop. It’s quite annoying that they sell 5 rolls for £1, so it makes people think they have a bargain. But the amount of tape on each roll is so little that the total on all five rolls is probably less than on one good quality roll. And you end up with five card rings and a larger outer packing to get rid of. No wonder we throw so much junk away.
So today’s photo is the five rolls arrange in an Olympic ring style. I lit it with a ring lite off camera pointing from the top side down to get longer shadows.
It was taken with the Pentax K5 and 16-45mm lens at ISO 3200.
Tonight I installed lightroom and am re syncing my catalogue. As I do this I’m working my way through a bag of water melon sweets from one of those old fashioned sweet shops. If you’ve never tried these and have a sweet tooth I’d highly recommend them. Yum Yum…
The shot was taken with the Pentax K5 and a Pentax 100mm macro lens.
I’m almost back to where I was at the weekend before the computer drive died…although still behind on the photo365 project I managed to squeeze a few photos in. And am playing catch up now. This was taken yesterday using the self timer to add to my above lap shots of me feeding my face.
This is one of my favourites deserts…not posh just a McFlurry – I love the taste of their ice cream…especially when it’s a special – this one’s the Oreo version. I was eating it as I loaded Photoshop back on to the PC.
It’s adjusted using Lightroom, which I reinstalled tonight.
Day three without a PC so I decided to take it to David to see if he could fix it. Result – The Seagate 500Gb Sata harddrive is kaput. It’s the second drive to die in less than a year! This one just gave up without a real warning. No virus, no grinding noises. Luckily I back up my contents so it’s all safeishly (new word) saved on another hard drive.
This is a shot of the open case, positioned so I see the fans that keep the thing cool and ensure the drive doesn’t overheat. Thanks fans! It’s snapped on the iphone in hipstamatic mode.
