Shame about the fly....

August 7th now and had new camera for a week and slowly starting to get to grips with one or two of the finer points. I disappeared off for a couple of hours in the morning over to an old canal cutting that has been turned very nicely into a series of lily clad waterways with lots of wildlife and plenty of nice fish.

The level of light gave me few excuses not to produce something today so the self imposed pressure was on.

Settings for the picture above were Focal length of 90mm, F/5.6 with a shutter speed of 1/200 sec and a zero exposure compensation.

A view of one end of the cutting taken with 55mm, 1/400 sec and F/5.6

One thing I have wondered a few times is.... because I wear glasses for reading and looking at the PC screen and whilst wearing them, I look at my photos and think "yep, thats in focus" do people that don't wear glasses see them different? I would hate to think that because I take pictures to suit my eyesight that everyone with 'normal' or different vision is seeing them all as being out of focus?

I Liked the way the you can see the surface film clinging to the under side of the leaves and lifting above the water level. Taken using a focal length of 175mm, F/5.6 and 1/200 sec shutter speed.

Anyway, amongst this latest post are a few pictures from that day at the canal cutting.

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Cliff

Oh yes, the offending fly I referred to in the title is sat on the pink lilly!