One bright, sunny Sunday with The Watercress Line running a two steam locomotive service plus one diesel shunter making for a fab steam enthusiasts day out with some decent train snapping opportunities as ever as well.
A day out at the local Raptor Sanctuary courtesy of OM System and London Camera Exchange. Owls, hawks and falcons in all their splendid glory, beautiful creatures and the descendants of the dinosaurs alive and well and flying around us.The raptors!
In recent weeks several new and now regular visitors have turned up in the garden in the form of highly acrobatic bird feeder bandits. Cute, agile, highly entertaining but a bit of a pest really.
Iris Pseudacorus aka The Yellow Flag - another picture made whilst on my walkabout at LilyHill yesterday. Could not resist posting a few more images made with my OM-1 II and 40-150mm f4 Pro; the art of tele-zoom close-ups.
LilyHill, home to cultivars such as Irises, hybrid Rhododendrons and Azaleas, and wildflowers such as Meadow Buttercup and Birdsfoot Trefoil, plus grand trees including Monkey Puzzle, Beech, Douglas Fir and the majestic Wellingtonia aka The Giant Redwood.
Every now and then you run into something really good, that takes you by surprise, that makes you stop and think about possibilities. Enter the remarkable OM-1 II ...
Squirrel; OM System OM-1 II, M.Zuiko ED 12-100mm f4 IS Pro. Grab shot using C-AF Area All with "Dogs & Cats" Subject Detection plus Silent Sequential 20 fps.