Butterflies

Felixstowe Docks by Night

Poppies

Not my best photo's but it was raining very very hard.  I will be going back and would highly recommend a visit if you are around.

Two lights and some cloud.......

I'm loving my photography at the moment, but like everything else in my life, my lack of time to devote to my new hobby is frustrating me.  I so need to give up work and become a lady of leisure!  This week we have seen a couple of new things crop up in London which are not permanent - we have the Poppy art work at the Tower of London, running until November 11th, and for last week the Spectra of Light - both of which are Art Commissions for the WW1 Centenary. I tried very hard all week to find time to visit the light art - knowing that I only had seven day but it just didn't happen.  Sunday night however I decided that everything could just wait - I would never get the chance again.

I think I just didn't push hard enough during the week as my DSLR camera has gone back to the manufacturer with 'a blip' and won't be back for a few weeks - and I was left with the choice of two bridge cameras to take my images - I just felt they wouldn't be as good - however, in thinking - surely my 'training course' (lol) should have given me the skills to use any camera and produce something.  So using the Canon Powershot SX50 HS  this is what I got.....

Light One - the Super moon ....

Light Two - the Spectra

I'm pleased I got the Spectra - after all - it will never be there again - however I wish I had made more of an effort during the week to get some better images - perhaps further away from one of the bridges but there it is - one comment made in class was - 'the images won't come to you - you have to go find them' - and that keeps cropping up again and again - sod the housework next time and feeding D - grab the camera and run.

I'm pleased with the images especially the Big Ben ones - the zoom on the canon is phenomenal - never could I get that close with the lenses I currently have with the DSLR.