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Textures and strong sunlight can make for some interesting photography and this was the case yesterday afternoon as we headed back to East Midlands airport to catch my flight back to Edinburgh.  A field of barley on a hillside near to village of Wilson on the Leicestershire / Derbyshire border was being lit by the low evening sun behind a copse of trees while a breeze kept making the barley move in patterns. Using the Fujifilm X-T1 and the 56mm f1.2 or 35mm f1.4 I set about capturing a selection of images.   I also used the Lee 10x ND 'big stopper' filter to slow the shutter speed down to around 1/10 second to capture some of the movement caused by the wind. Here are some of the images ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY VISITING THE ADVERTISERS ON THIS PAGE By clicking on the adverts you are helping support this blog - thank you. ---...

The landscape around Dunbar ranges from agricultural, to coast and to moorland and s ometimes the landscape changes in a very short space.  Take this field of winter cabbage, it is situated less than quareter of a mile from the sand dunes behind the beach at Ravenhaugh Sands.  I was draw to the field by the mass of green and the texture in the leaves.  Using the shallow depth of field of the Nikon 50mm lens I was able to focus on one area of the field and throw the rest of the frame out of focus. Both images were taken on a Nikon D800 fitted with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4 AF-D lens. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BLOG BY CLICKING THE GOOGLE ADVERTS It doesn't cost you anything to click on an advert but we get a small fee for every click thru from Google and this helps support this blog - thank you for helping ---------------------------------------------------...

While out and about in the Vale of Belvoir we spotted this field near Barkestone that was full of Dandelion Clocks so we stopped to get a few images before the wind destroyed the scene. Composition was difficult with such a mass of white so with the 105mm f2.8 on the camera I set the tripod very low to get a shot across the field. With a wide aperture I was able to isolate one clock head while throwing the rest out of focus in the background. I used the same technique with the 17-35 lens, a wide aperture to throw the background out of focus but this time I was able to include the sky to give a different perspective to the scene. The final shot was taken on the Nikon 50mm f1.4 at the widest aperture and I singled out one clock head with just a green background. All images taken on the Nikon D800 with a 105mm f2.8G (top), 17-35mm f2.8 (middle) and 50mm f1.4D (bottom). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...