Category: Around the Village

Apparently Storks always congregate at this time of the year before flying off to Africa for the winter months, but it’s the first time I’ve seen them in our village. This muster of storks was found grazing on a freshly harvested potato field on the edge of the village.
The pictures were taken between about 7.00 and 7.30pm and the available light was failing rapidly. Using my new Pentax K-70, I was pleasantly surprised with the HD DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WR hand held performance.

Although it’s the first time I have seen them in our village, white storks congregate every year about this time before flying off to warmer climes. A few days ago I was delighted to witness eighteen of them plodding across a freshly harvested potato field on the edge of the village. The pictures were taken between about 7.00 and 7.30 pm and the light was failing fast. Using my new Pentax K-70 with the HD DA 55-300mm F4.5-6.3 ED PLM WRI was positively su

Yesterday a loud ring on the doorbell heralded the arrival of the eagerly awaited, brand new Pentax K-70 and 55 – 300mm zoom. I will of course be writing more about both during the days to come, but today I thought I’d just post a couple of images taken during my daily gentle stroll around the village. I hope to take them for a walk around town soon, to capture some other colours than green 😉

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I really like the light at this time of the year. I took this on today’s evening stroll.

Being dormant for the last three and a half months or so, I thought it high time to post a little something. During my blog-absence summer has been and almost gone, I’ve ordered a new camera (more about that when I actually have it) and the first signs of Autumn are already making themselves apparent.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned it many times before, but Autumn always has a very special atmosphere. The light takes on an autumnal feel as indeed does the subject matter – golden leaves everywhere – and of course many excellent reasons to be out and about with the camera!

The weather forecasters got it almost right, rain all day they said. But it did stay nice and dry whilst I went for a Sunday stroll this morning. If it had been raining hard I would have probably driven in to town and captured lots of headlights reflecting on wet tarmac. But the rain held off, so I visited a local castle.
I think the point here is…. be adaptable, don’t stay at home because of a bit of rain, no matter what the weather’s doing, take the camera out for a walk and make the best of it!

I usually associate Autumn with gold and brown and all the shades in between, but this year a new colour has caught my attention. In previous years I’ve never really noticed the field of violet coloured, weed looking plants. I’m not sure what the plant is, but assume it’s  a green manure or cover crop. I’ve been wanting to capture an image or two of such a field for quite some time now, but as fate would have it the only opportunity I had was on a rather overcast day with my mobile phone.  Still under way with the mobile phone I snapped a couple of traditional autumn scenes when the sun was shining.

Peering out of this window this afternoon I was pleased to see that it was still raining. Time to take the K30 for a walk. There’s nothing quite like an autumn stroll in the rain, enjoying the autumnal sounds of wet wellies plodding through damp leaves. However, I feel these images haven’t really captured the atmosphere of just how wet everything really was, so I think I will have to take the camera to town at dusk sometime in the near future to capture lights reflecting on roads… hopefully it will rain again soon!