3rd October 2021

It brightened up quickly after I left the house this morning.

It’s the start of a new month so I’ve changed from using the Lensbaby Twist 60 optic to the Plastic Optic. It takes a few days to get used to a different lens or optic when I change them so I wanted to play. I didn’t expect to get enough shots for a blog post.

The plastic optic is much softer and creates a glow effect. These were taken using the f2.8 disk.

The most interesting shots are the ones of the tree. The purple light leak I really wasn’t expecting. I didn’t spot it when I was taking the shot but the flare is deliberate.

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Callow End Lensbaby Old Hills Weekend Walks

Plastic Optic

25th September 2021

It was a misty morning when I took the dog out on the Old Hills this morning.

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Callow End Lensbaby Old Hills Weekend Walks

Autumn morning Mist twist twist 60

Sunday Morning

Some shots from a Sunday morning walk with the dogs. Splat playing, then resting on the way home and then at home after having had his breakfast.

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Dogs Lensbaby Malvern Common Weekend Walks

English Springer Spaniel ESS German Shepherd GSD Velvet 28 Velvet 56

After the Rain

After some heavy overnight rain, it was a grey drizzly morning on Malvern Common, but the harebells and grasses looked beautiful covered in raindrops.

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Lensbaby Malvern Common Weekend Walks

Droplets Harebells raindrops Velvet 28

Weekend Wanders

We explored some different paths along our usual route round the Old Hills this morning. The countryside is beautiful and we so often fail to appreciate what’s on our doorstep.

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Callow End Lensbaby Malvern Hills Old Hills Weekend Walks

Velvet 85

9th April 2020

It was a lovely, sunny morning on Saturday and I chose to put my velvet 56 on my camera to wander round the Old Hills with the dogs. There’s always something to photograph either on the Old Hills or wandering back down Bush Lane. I hope you like the shots below.

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Callow End Lensbaby Old Hills Weekend Walks

Blossom Velvet 56

It’s wet out!

It was too wet to get my camera out today!

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Callow End Weekend Walks

Rain RX100 m4

20th October 2019

This morning we walked along Bush Lane to the Old Hills. It’s a while since we’ve walked along there so it was great to sees the patches where wild flower seeds had been planted alive with colour. The red creeper snaking through the mistletoe was also an unusual sight and I was drawn to the colour combination. It made me think Christmas is coming.

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Callow End Lensbaby Weekend Walks

Autumn Berries Mistletoe Spindle Tree Velvet 56

19th October 2019

We were out earlier than usual for a weekend, we wanted to be back for the rugby. It was still dark when we left the house but I took my camera bag in the hope I’d get a good sunrise shot. I was after a “Landscape” shot for my Project 52. I was hoping to get the Malvern Hills in the reflected light of the sunrise. I started out with the Lensbaby Velvet 85 on my camera but swathed to the Velvet 56 about half way round.

I didn’t get the shot I wanted but I was pleased with the shots of Kempsey, across the river and the telegraph poles stretching into the distance. So many times I’ve wished they weren’t there!

When we went further round the Hills to the western side, facing the Malvern Hills the cloud was clinging to the top but the sun hadn’t risen enough to illuminate them. I still got some interesting shots, what do you think?

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Callow End Lensbaby Malvern Hills Old Hills Weekend Walks

sunris Velvet 56 Velvet 85

12th October 2019

After going out my plastic optic last weekend without my macro kit I made sure I had it with me yesterday. The weather wasn’t great. It was dull all the while we were out but I did get a few shots.

I’m playing catch up with my Definitely Dreaming Project 52 so I was looking for a “Circle” and “Something old”. I think looking down on the little fungi counts as a circle and the plate on the Trig point is my 2Something old”.

The Spindle tree berries added some colour to a dull day.

These shots were all taken with the plastic optic wide open, i.e. f/2.