NATURE

Hi everyone, and I hope you are keeping healthy in these unprecedented times. Photography trips have had to be shelved until the last couple of weeks, and it has been great to get out into the countryside again. We're very lucky living where we do on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds, with lovely country walks literally on our doorstep, and I have great sympathy for those folk living in cities and highrises who have been unable to travel. Let's hope the worst is behind us and some kind of normality returns.

Meantime I have started a new portfolio, Nature, to celebrate all the good things to be seen out and about. The first two images in there were experiments using old lenses from film cameras on my DSLR, using adaptors. Cherry Blossom was made a two minute walk down the road a few weeks ago (before the high winds blew all the petals away). The lens is a 1975 Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 manual focus which, despite its age, produces superb results.

The second one, Spring in the woods, was made using a 1996 Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2.8 lens from my treasured Hasselblad 500c/m (see it in my Technical section). The highest quality comes as standard, but the background bokeh came as a pleassant surprise!

Here's a link to the portfolio, and more will be added in the future.