Hello!

After a very, very hectic few months I am pleased to finally have had the time to pick up my camera again and even work on the images that I have taken - hurrah!

The next few images are some experimental images that I have taken of some tulips with the lensbaby fisheye lens.  Please let me know what you think:

We were driving around a couple of weekends ago and past this field and I couldn't resist going back with my camera the next day to get some images.  I hope you like them. 

Have a good rest of the weekend.

Susan

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Spring is back - hurrah!

Apologies for the large gaps between posts, I don't know where this year has gone.

Its great to see the spring flowers and the frogs have been back again but the poor things came back too early and the snow that came in March sent them scurrying away.  There are some eggs in the pond and, fingers crossed, we should have tadpoles soon.  Please see below a few images of some frogs that I managed to take:

Peek a boo!

Have a great weekend!

Susan

Merry Christmas!  Hopefully the snow isn't causing you too many problems preparing for the festivities at the end of the week.

Well the snow has certainly given me a chance to practice my snow and ice  photography :)  Here are a few examples of some scenes from the garden.

  

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!
Susan
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Alien plant

Our grass is now a bog land and everything is looking very bare except for the berries which the birds are flocking too.  Have some tidying still to do in the garden but there is one main task outstanding which we keep trying to put out of our minds.  The removal of a certain plant, the monkshood!  

I wouldn't have dreamed about taking this plant out last year, beautiful strange blue flowers which are perfect for taking photos.  The bumblebees just adore them but I could never quite get that perfect bumblebee/monkshood shot, maybe this year!  I eagerly watched the plant start to grow again, waiting for the buds to appear when I discovered, while flicking through a herb book, that the monkshood is a very poisonous plant.  Deadly if ingested.  Some people have it at the back of a garden out of reach but ours is at the very front of the plant border and having a small child made the risk too much.  So it has been fenced of waiting for it to start dying back and then a sad but relieved goodbye.  

Here is one of the pictures that I have taken but alas still no bumblebee/monkshood shot!

Susan

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Strange looking fungi!

My little girl and I were out in the garden yesterday looking at fungi when she suddenly leaped back looking slightly concerned.  It turns out that the strange green fungi she had spotted in the grass, and decided to touch,  took offense at this intrusion and hopped forward.  Trying not to laugh, but failing miserably, I finally convinced her that the frog got more of a fright than she did!

We are very lucky in that we have had many visits from frogs in the garden and here are some of my many shots from the ones that visited our pond.

They are great characters and some just can't resist the camera.

Susan xx

Foxgloves

Hello!  I wish I could say that I have been busy taken pictures this week but the weather has once again been conspiring against me.  I am now thinking about taken my photography in a new direction - wet, soggy and windswept photography!
Instead I  have been working on some of the images that I have taken during the year and this week it has been the turn of the foxglove.  I had two rather sorry looking foxgloves hiding at the back of the garden with only a few flowers having emerged on both plants but this made me concentrate on a close up view of two flowers rather than going for the whole plant.  I also went for a more grainy feel.  

The images differ slightly in the orientation.  I prefer the top image myself but please let me know what you think.

Have a good weekend.

Susan

Daisy, daisy

Time seems to have flown by this week but thankfully I have found some time tonight to add a new post.  These images are two different types of daisy's that I have had growing in the garden over the summer.  I love the daisy as they always seems to brighten up a garden.

Out of the two images which one do you prefer?  Also, in the last two post I have left out the camera information regarding the images, do you prefer to see this information or prefer just the images?

Have a lovely weekend.

Susan