Dragonfly

May. 29th, 2020 08:13 pm
ffutures: (Default)
Saw this in Kensington Gardens London yesterday, in the Italian water gardens at Lancaster gate

Later - reliably informed this is a damselfly, not a dragonfly. Thought it looked a bit small. My bad.

Dragonfly on floating leaf

Full sized image here

https://www.flickr.com/photos/150868539@N02/49946034782/in/album-72157714489528968/

Not quite as sharp as I would like since the lens had slight fungus - I was testing it before selling it. Sigma 75-300 AF APO on Nikon D70



ffutures: (marcus 2013)
Since it was a lovely day I went for a long walk west along the canal (e.g. away from the shops, restaurants, etc.) with my camera. Along the way I made an interesting discovery - I've known today that if I press the macro button it's only a moderately close focus, about a foot or so, not ideal for smaller things. But I discovered today that if I press it twice it goes to an "super macro" setting where it'll focus to 1cm. I've evidently done this in the past without noticing, a couple of pictures I took last week were within a few cm, but now that I know this more macro seems likely. It's undoubtedly in the manual, which I got as a download, but needless to say I never seem to have read it.

To save bandwidth I've either cropped or resampled the pictures, whichever seemed to work best. All are behind cuts:

First, some pictures from a few day ago )

Next, today's pictures )

Walked about five miles - not especially fast - and really enjoyed it. Next time I want to try pushing on another mile or two, go past the furthest I've walked so far.

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