Birds

Now that I have stacked my macrolens away for the winter I try to focus on the birds on the garden, though I am not really patient enough for that. Moreover the light is often so bad that most of the time I can’t get the shutterspeed I need. Still every now and then I manage to get a decent shot.

Sunday Stills – Fins, Feathers and Fur

The fins bit should have been relatively easy for me as we have a fish tank in the house, but it still took an awfull lot of patience as even the most boring of fish becomes a nervous swimmer the moment you point a camera at it. But I finally managed to get a few in focus:

These are our feathers. A couple of hens that have great fun together but refuse to lay eggs an a regular basis, thus endangering their own lives. I already showed them my book with chicken recipes but they were nog impressed. Insulent creatures!

Finally, as my regular visitors already know, my favourite bit of fur:

Mushrooms

I feel obliged to make at least one mushroom post each fall and as it is already the 10th of november today it is about time for this years version:

Accident

Can’t remember taking this picture. I must have pressed the shutter by accident while I was sitting in the grass trying to shoot something else. Still I kind of like it so it gets a place on my blog.

Sunday stills – landscape fall colours

You would not expect to see fall colours an a beach. But here your are, the vegetation is turning all shades of orange and yellow:

In the dunes the fall colours come mainly from the sea-buckthorn berries.

Back

So I am back from a holiday that did not go as I hoped. After two days of extremely bad weather I went down with a nasty cold and had to stay indoors till the day we had to go home again. Bad luck. We will just have to go again some time soon. One of the few pics I have to show:

Sunday stills – happiness is…

There are many things that make me happy, but most of them are hard to visualize like beautifull music and perfect silence. And then of course there are those subjects that just are not suitable for a blog like this .
But at this very moment there is one particular thing that makes me happy and that is the notion that I will be going on holiday in a few days time to one of the Dutch Waddensea islands where I go regularly whenever I feel the need to relax and charge my batteries.
Here are some pics I made on my last trip:

Rust, grease and shine

For some shots of the visitors of this event see my blackandwhite blog.

Sunday stills – signs of fall

The first sign that fall is coming near in our garden is always an invasion of spiders

closely followed by the first chestnuts falling. Yes, these are chestnuts:

And of course the beautifull colours everywhere:

Even our dog has autumn colours:

Closer

Every year in september there are dozens of dragonflies in our garden en every year I take their picture many times. Of course all those pics have great similarities, but there is progess too: Every year I dare to get closer. Don’t know where this will end though. Next year I will probably post pictures of a dragonfly with his nose flattened against the front of my lens