Elder Bud-burst
Elder
I am currently preparing a daily sequence of elder tree leaf buds opening … this is a sample; day 6 of the series
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Exposure bias: +3/10EV
- Focal length: 100mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/100s
Easter Hare – Wild Peace
The above image is a ceramic plaque that we purchased years ago from a gallery in Suffolk. The quotation, I discovered, is only a part of the original (by Yehuda Amichai, an Israeli poet)
Not the peace of a cease-fire
not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,
but rather
as in the heart when the excitement is over
and you can talk only about a great weariness.
I know that I know how to kill, that makes me an adult.
And my son plays with a toy gun that knows
how to open and close its eyes and say Mama.
A peace
without the big noise of beating swords into ploughshares,
without words, without
the thud of the heavy rubber stamp: let it be
light, floating, like lazy white foam.
A little rest for the wounds; who speaks of healing?
(And the howl of the orphans is passed from one generation
to the next, as in a relay race:
the baton never falls.)
Let it come
like wildflowers,
suddenly, because the field
must have it: wildpeace.
Sparking Tree
Hedgerow
Sparking sunlight glancing off ice-coated branches
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: Canon PowerShot G9
- Exposure bias: +1/2EV
- Focal length: 10.673000341336mm
- ISO: 80
- Shutter speed: 1/1000s
Misty Morning
Memory Sunday #22
Morning with coffee on the deck at Kenauk – a whole day ahead of us
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
- Exposure bias: -2/3EV
- Focal length: 28mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/80s
Pearly Everlasting
Pearly Everlasting as winter begins and we wake up to garden frosts
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 87.11mm
- ISO: 800
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Flaming Brambles
More late fall colours
A bramble bush almost ready to drop its leaves – so much colour this year
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: DSC-RX100
- Focal length: 20.85mm
- ISO: 125
- Shutter speed: 1/320s
We Have Frost
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 212.77mm
- ISO: 1000
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Three Trees
Late Autumn in the Garden
Viburnum, Amelanchier canadensis and a sour cherry tree – beyond them a Chinese grass, the species of which I forget. A visually interesting time of the year in the garden with the different coloours on the same date.
- Aperture: ƒ/5.6
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 35mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/80s
High Summer Flowers
Poppies
Mid-summer’s Day and we were out in the sun, dripping wet searching for birds (successfully) when we passed this garden along Cemetery Lane. Can’t get more high summer than this.
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: -3/10EV
- Focal length: 43.48mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/125s
The Last Ice
Crystals
Giant ice crystals forming over watery ruts in a farm track
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Exposure bias: +7/10EV
- Focal length: 42.08mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/250s