Month: June 2017

Weekly Photo Challenge : Focus

Sometimes it is interesting to practice using the ‘point and shoot’ camera in macro mode. The test is to get the desired subject in focus! There is no better place to try this than in gardens, and in contrasting seasons.

Spring at the beautiful Sheffield Park Gardens near Haywards Heath, East Sussex.

Rhododendron against the lake
Sheffield Park, East Sussex

Autumn ‘down under’ at the Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, a wholesale nursery at Ferny Creek near Mount Dandenong, east of Melbourne.

Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, Mt Dandenong, Victoria
Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, Mt Dandenong, Victoria

Of course, a this scientist interprets ‘focus’ literally; but he is very happy with the ‘blur’ achieved.

This is one of many responses to the weekly photo challenge, Focus

Angles on The Shard

shard
“a piece of broken ceramic, metal, glass, or rock, typically having sharp edges”

The Shard , sometimes described as a “shard of glass”, is a 95-storey skyscraper in Southwark, London, that forms part of the London Bridge Quarter development.

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from The Queen’s Walk west of Tower Bridge
from The Queen’s Walk west of Tower Bridge
from old Kent Road
from Borough High Street
from Borough High Street
from entrance to Guy’s Hospital
up close
up close
up close
up close
Orientation

These photos were taken in September 2015 and May 2017. An evolving scientist has been exploring parts of London where some of his ancestors lived in the late 19th and early 20th century.  The Shard attracts attention as a landmark, and a potential subject for photographs.

This post is dedicated to all those who have suffered, and are still suffering, as a result of events on and around London Bridge on 3rd June 2017.

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