Dusk Sorry, Stewart - pre-dusk

Out in the fields around where I live. Cold, bright weather - spring has been put on hold for a bit while we have a little winter reprise.

In Globus cafe

After weeks of grey, low lying cloud I decided to lift my spirits by getting above it all. Here on the nearby Rigi.

This old friend is still there, Christmas or no Christmas. Hope everyone is having a good festive season, although dear Chuckeroon has had some bad luck I'm afraid. You can cheer him up here.

Completely by accident I've been firing the G11's flash in the wash hand basin. Quite interesting lighting results.

throw in a bit of knob twiddling....

Actually the first one had some knob twiddling as well....

Now just where is that "clone out rubbish bin" tool in Photoshop....

I don't remember getting good results on film, so it seemed a good candidate for my first car boot sale. I have an adapter, so I can use it on the Canon EOS5D. Here is a non-descript photo which however is rather surprising when you look at the quality. This was taken wide open at f4.5. It has been givem normal sharpening as would an in camera jpeg. Beware, if you click on it, the full-size download is about 6mb...

Of course a long lens also excels at narrow DOF, and the background is thrown nicely out of focus here.

Might not be selling it after all.....

I'm still using up photos from my recent trip to Ham House, so for people arriving here looking for the city on the banks of the LImmat, apologies if there is a distinctly non-Zürich feel about the last couple of weeks