Simon's Blog

Over the past few days I have been working hard on my historical research project.  It has been very rewarding but I have had enough.   I am going to let this take a back seat and concentrate on painting and drawing, both digital and actual, and photography.  I feel I need to get out and do something more creative.   Spending hours at the computer screen working reminds too much of working in an office – I thought I had left that behind.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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It was an early autumn afternoon, the sun still had a lot of power as it beamed down, yet there was the tell tale autumnal feel to the wind.  Not cold but gone was the warm winds of just a few weeks ago.  I say warm but of course anyone who knows the summer we have had well warm is not a word you would associate it.  

Anyway, what a better time to try and capture some bees and hoverflies feeding on the late gifts of nectar from flowers.   It really was a pleasant way to pass an hour or so, sitting on a deck chair sitting in the sun in the garden and every now and then pressing the remote shutter release.  I set the camera up on a tripod, manually focusing on a particular flower and then wait.  Of course the first thing that went wrong was that flower kept moving, a gift of the passing breeze!  So refocus and set up again.   Snap Snap Snap – motor drive on full blast.  Then kick back for a minute or so and then repeat, repeat repeat.

So what were the results?   Well as expected.   Most of the 300 plus images were out of focus, the depth of field was in the millimetre range.  Despite this I got what I wanted.  all in all I have spent far worse afternoons.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/@simonmarchini