Though it’s just a short distance away we had never actually been to the forest so we took advantage of the good weather to take a couple of trips there and have some nice long walks. It was good timing as only a few weeks later there were terrible fires that destroyed a lot of the forest.
I had just got a new lens for my D7000 – an F2.8 105mm Nikkor macro – and so we took a trip to the Frimley Lodge canal to try it out. Hun Yieng took my old camera and lens for a friendly “competition”.
Here’s some of her shots:
and here’s some of mine:
With the boys at school and both of us with a day off we took a short trip to Guildford Cathedral. After a nice lunch in the refectory we took a stroll around and inside the cathedral; with hardly anyone else around it was very peaceful there.
Two views of the cathedral: the first is straight from the camera and the second is a combination of three shots at different exposures using a technique called HDR which allows the creation of images that have a wider range (from light to dark) than is normally possible due to the limitations of the camera’s sensor.
Thomas performed one of his grade 8 piano pieces at the school’s year 9 music evening.
Half-term week and I took Thomas and Matthew paintballing at the centre near Effingham run by Delta Force.
Matthew performed a piano solo at the school’s music evening.
After visiting Tintagel we went to the nearby St. Nectan’s Glen. This is a beautiful, though very muddy in places, walk along the Trevillet River valley leading to St. Nectans Kieve and the waterfall. Nearby the waterfall is a tea room which has many pictures posted showing “mysterious orbs” floating in the air; you will see these in the last picture though I don’t think there is anything mysterious about them – I think water droplets (caught by the flash of the camera) would be a more accurate description!
