Pollinator in Flight
Brown-belted Bumble Bee
Homing in on a rose …
- Aperture: ƒ/9
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 640
- Shutter speed: 1/250s
Memory Sunday #4
Midnight Sun
A few years ago we spent a fabulous couple of weeks touring Iceland and birding, finding wonderful arctic plants and drinking really expensive beer. This photograph was taken near midnight in the very far north of Iceland just outside Akureyri.
- Aperture: ƒ/8
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Focal length: 35mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/125s
Clover Time
Summer Flowers in the Mead
After the spring flowers on the uncut lawn area (the mead) we are now beginning to see the appearance of summer grassland flowers – including four species of clovers.
Why would anyone have a mown lawn and miss these pleasures?
- Aperture: ƒ/11
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 8.8mm
- ISO: 400
- Shutter speed: 1/30s
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
Mid-Summer Sunset
Golden Light
Three years ago a group of Arboretum volunteers created the “Canada 150 Trail” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the creation of Canada.Quite by chance it was found this year that the Birch Alley that forms part of the trail is directly oriented towards the setting sun for the few days around mid-summer’s day, the Summer Equinox.
Absolutely NO adjustments to the colour saturation was made in preparing these photographs – these colours are what our eyes saw. Well, what oour eyes saw through the clouds of ravenous mosquitoes, that is ;)
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: ILCE-7M2
- Exposure bias: -7/10EV
- Focal length: 65mm
- ISO: 250
- Shutter speed: 1/80s
Robin Impersonator
Blue Jay
This Blue Jay had been bathing in the waterfall header pool and decided to sit on the handle of my spade to dry out – doubtless impersonating a Euro Robin.
- Aperture: ƒ/4
- Camera: DSC-RX10M3
- Focal length: 220mm
- ISO: 100
- Shutter speed: 1/400s