It was a generally average Saturday. Nippy enough to tell you it was autumn but not cold enough for a coat. Moderate amount of activity in the shop and time enough to increase my knowledge of eBay. I have decided I need to become a better eBay user, both for my work and for myself. I really can’t put it off much longer as I need to reduce my collection and generate some cash.
The photographs are more from the visit to the gardens earlier in the week. There is a threat of frost this weekend and I thought I’d get a few final shots of the nasturtiums before the frost flattens them. The first frost and the devastated nasturtiums is, for me, the saddest sight of the year.
The header picture shows a skein of geese flying south. During the summer they fly in to the Trent every morning, where they gather on the river to feed and mug passers-by. AS winter moves on, they start flying away instead. It can be tricky taking a picture of geese in the sky with just a scratched screen for a viewing aid. I just pointed the camera at the honking and pressed the button every time the green square indicated I was focussed on something. It seemed to work.
I will close now as I need to get on with a few jobs.
Great goose technique. I tried it on a buzzard earlier this week and got a fine collection of pictures of sky. Do you give on-line lessons?
Online tutorial coming up.
Point, hope, press. Repeat. If you are lucky, write about it. If not, pretend you wanted a shot of sky.
I await your results with interest. 🙂
Gosh, it is wonderful what you can get off the internet! I’ll put that into practice.
It is also quite noticeable there is a lot of old tosh on the internet too. 🙂
Love the sight and sound of geese in flight. And flowers nipped by frost are indeed a sad sight.
It’s amazing how far honking travels in still air.
Such a lovely, haunting sound.
It is. 🙂
Those bright and cheery nasturtiums hang in there right up to the end.
Your geese photo reminds me of an old Joni Mitchell song appropriate to this time of year, “Urge For Going”. One of the lines reads, “See the geese in chevron flight, flapping and racing on before the snow.”
That’s a good line. When I find the sound on this computer I will look it up.
There is live footage of her performing this song in1966 you would enjoy.
I’ll have a look tomorrow – I have sound on my work computer. 🙂
Great technique for using a cracked screen – I did that for a while
🙂 The things we do! I’ve never been unlucky enough to break a screen but I did once break Julia’s. She hasn’t mentioned it recently…
🙂
Nasturtiums are one of my favorite annuals but I haven’t grown any for several years. I haven’t noticed geese flying south here yet.
We just sow them because they are cheap, cheerful and just about foolproof. And edible.