Volumes from Verulamium – 2.0

This heron was hanging around a coot’s nest in Verulamium Park on the River Ver.
I suspect he was looking for dinner
Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/60 at f/4.0.

Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/50 at f/1.8. Model: Phoebe.  Consumables: Chicken and cheese!

Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/1050 at f/3.5.  Lots of fiddling with levels in Lightroom to get the Abbey visible without the sun blown out in the sky.

Street performer, Covent Garden.
Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/1250 at f/2.8

Broad Street, Covent Garden.  K2 phone boxes.
Technical notes: Nikon D90 with Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF. ISO 200, 1/2000 at f/1.8

Blackfriars National Rail station is being largely rebuilt and extended across the river for 2011; until then the Underground station is closed.  There is a lot of work going on above and below ground; this is one of the cranes involved.
It’s a mess at the moment, but 12 carriage trains will make it worthwhile, I’m [...]

My lovely wife has been baking again.   These delicious blueberry muffins come from this book:

Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home

Some of you may know that I’m a fan of Scott Kelby. He’s a great photo educator, both for photography and software.
Anyway, last year he arranged a worldwide photo walk to celebrate the launch of his Digital Photography Book Volume 2. This year he organised a second one, co-incidentally at the time of the launch [...]

Right, that’s it. Bang up to date. Been through and processed all of last week’s; and the week before’s which were languishing unblogged on Flickr are now blogged.

82/365 Granola
83/365 Smile!
84/365 Flame

85/365 Strettcchhh
86/365 Spring
87/365 Skyline

88/365 Father and Daughter
89/365 Chocolate Moose
90/365 Show me the way to go home

91/365 Shed
92/365 Thyme gentlemen please
93/365 Taking the evening air

94/365 Quackers [...]

Whilst I was at the Little Big Cats workshop, I did have one go at using the video option on my Nikon D90.
I’m not a dab hand at using the video option yet, which means there is a little blurring in the middle, but I thought you might all like to see the one I [...]