Cornwall Summer 09

Spent two weeks in Cornwall this Summer. The weather was terrible the first week with rain every day, the second week was far better and I was able to take a few photos.

New macro lens

To celebrate my last AS exam I bought myself a Tamron 90mm f/2.8 macro lens. I am really liking it, its a lot easier to use than a reversed 50mm lens which I used previously to get mcaro shots.

I have only had the lens for a few days, here are some of the photos I have taken with it:

Middlesex v Leicestershire

I went to see Middlesex play last week at Southgate's Walker ground. I saw the last day which was not particularly exciting with the game finishing in a draw, but it was good to see Strauss and the young Australian Hughes.



This is 19 year old James Taylor who scored his first county championship century, finnishing with 122 not out.



Phillip Hughes who will be playing for Australia in the Ashes this summer.



Andrew Strauss bowled the final over of the day before the game was ended at 5:30 with no result possible.

Snow

Lots of snow this week in London. Alfie the cat was very curious about all this strange white powdery stuff.

A stroll with my new camera

Just before Christmas I went for a walk with my new Nikon D300, mainly just to get used to all the new buttons compared to my D50.

I wasnt going anywhere photogenic, just a local park and at first did't know what to shoot, but after walking around and really looking for interesting, unusual photogrpahic opporotunities I found lots of things worth shooting.

Favourites photos of 2008

Here are some of my favourite photos I took in 2008

Red deer in Richmond Park

Last year in August I went to Richmond Park to photograph the red deer, it was really great how close you could get and I decided that I would come back to see the deer during the rut.

The deer rut starts in late October and lasts for a few weeks, I went to Richmond Park in early November and saw a few clashes of antlers.







Just as I was leaving the park I saw a heron bathed in beautiful golden light

New camera and getty

Yay
I have been invited to submit images to getty images which is very exciting.

I also have a new camera, the Nikon D300. I haven't used it a lot yet but here are a the first photos from the D300 I've uploaded to istock: