Slick 12's photostream  

...spring has sprung... the end.

Well not quite. See the reason for this shot is because I got a 35mm 1.8 for xmas (thank you Frenchycharly and Mircha!).

The reason being I love my 50mm but sometimes you can't quite step back far enough. Anyhoo - they both work amazingly well on the D80 (world's worst DSLR for light metering and low light shooting). But this 35mm is super smooth. It barely bokehs at all when you focus this close - on the 50mm this would be a world of circles behind the crocus....

... but for the 50mmm you can do things like This Butterfly AND you don't end up stepping on the subjects toes for a decent portrait.

wonderment and mystery abound... now that I can sort of make sense of your world mister!

...she seemed to say.

alternative, and some say better, version of this Photo.

Only you can decide. but I prefer the earlier attempt. Once again a it's a free hand "tree-pan-blur-shot"... a term I appear to have invented. So that's one we can all use and know where it comes from when it shows up in the photo magazine's and books!

A little about the location - see tag. I grew up playing in these woods and some many years earlier, so did the author Thomas Hardy (Far from the maddening crowd etc). Now I don't like his books, because you have to read them if you go to school in Dorset. but anyway. I like the idea that i share a space where a legendary author also swung from the same trees i did.... some of them are old enough.

dawn over the Purbecks.
(that is all)

Not your usual type of shot of this classic view... but I'm not usual. That and I spent a little while cleaning the filth off of the image. I don't know how I do it but my filters just get filthy instantly no matter how much I clean them on and off of the camera...

... oh and this is where I learned to swim.