click photo to enlarge- A skein of geese flying in a ragged "V" formation, descending through the evening sunset onto the salt-marshes.
- An azure blue May sky with a stiff wind blowing streams of fluffy cotton wool clouds from one horizon to the other.
- The unreal glow of light in the bedroom when you wake on a January morning to find an unexpected fall of snow has descended in the night.
- The tumbling flight and the "peewit" calls of a pair of lapwings as they perform their aerial display over the fields during the nesting season.
- A sunset over the sea just as after rain has cleared, leaving the sky a mixture of the purest blue, the darkest grey, tinted whites, and the firiest red.
- The view after a brisk walk, on a clear, cold morning, from any summit that gives a 360 degree view.
- The low sun filtered by the red, orange and yellow leaves that won't let go of the trees in autumn.
- Turning the corner on a woodland path and coming upon banks of purple rhododendrons in full bloom.
- Hundreds of tiny frogs, each no bigger than your finger nail, as they clamber around the shallows of a pond.
- A field of wheat, barley or oilseed rape (above) that has been invaded by bright red poppies.
photograph & text (c) T. Boughen
Camera: Olympus E510
Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: 18mm (36mm/35mm equiv.)
F No: f8
Shutter Speed: 1/500
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -0.7 EV
Image Stabilisation: Off
