New Forest, 29 December 2005

These photographs were taken on a walk near Lyndhurst, in the New Forest. This was about 2 pm. It was very cold; overnight frost had not thawed for a couple of days. The sun was not breaking through heavy cloud cover, giving typical winter flat dull light.

 

new camera

My new camera arrived today, a Konica Minolta Dimage Z3. This is a replacement for my much-loved Dimage Z1 which had been misbehaving, so I gave it to my brother. When it arrived by post, it had obviously been knocked around so much in transit that it is now fully functional again. Oh well, I had already paid for the new one.

This shot is a detail of a piece of pottery in our kitchen, and the brown in the bottom left is a piece of yellowy-brown slightly glossy card. This was taken from about 10 feet away, with the camera on maximum zoom - 12 x optical and 4 x digital - and flash. I usually disable digital zoom as on these cameras the resulting photos are very grainy. But here I was playing around with a new toy.

(All earlier photos in this blog were taken with the Dimage Z1, as were those on the Eden Project and Cardiff pages of www.electricallanguage.co.uk)

 

what are you looking at?

These sheep were in a woodland area planted with avenues of poplar trees. Usually we pause to admire the trees. Today, all these sheep were staring back at me.