Sunday, 5 April 2009

Its a small world of unintended consequences



I spent some part of yesterday rummaging around on my stomach in the garden.  This wasn't some new form of green protest but rather an attempt to make a photograph of a small flower under the large plants and shrubs.  Unfortunately those photographs weren't that good.  However, whilst I was down there I saw this rather small mushroom (Toadstool?).  I just couldn't pass that opportunity up so I pointed my G9 at the fungi and took a few shoots.   Just to give you some idea of the scale you can clearly see the lens makings reflected onto the cap of the mushroom - wither that or it is the devils mushroom as it clearly is at least one - maybe two - six.



This morning I tried to capture some crazy long tailed tit that insists on flying into the window of the garden shed.  I set up the camera, attached the remote and even put of reflector out to give the scene a little more light.   Nothing.  I waited and waited.  Still nothing.   I was standing in my garage which has a good vantage point of the garden shed.  Whilst trying not to get too bored I started to take some photographs of a wasp as it tried to fly through the window.   I got carried away and became more interested in the wasp than the long tailed tit, which, needless to say didn't turn up until I was dismantling the set up!

Well that is the beauty of photography.  You set out to make one type of photograph and end up with a totally different set all together.   Now I am not sure whether this is an unintended consequence but it was welcome.   Again the G9 proved a show stopper.

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