Down by the river.

I wanted to get some photos of the morning light down by the river but the weather wasn't all that cooperative and the sun came out from behind the clouds for about 10 minutes and then disappeared.

In about the first two minutes I took this shot and then the sunlight started to fade...

In the last of the glowy golden morning light I took this shot, not very extraordinary in any sense and my goodness the water looks so muddy in that light but I haven't managed to get any photos of the swans that live by the river so I was quite pleased that this one decided to make an appearance when I had my camera with me.

With the sky all overcast I decided to leave it at that and go back to the car...crossing over the river I noticed there were all these swallows swooping around me and diving close to the river...so I amped up the shutter speed and attempted to get a shot of them...in addition to a great many shots of blurred splots that were vaguely birdshaped and lots of empty frames with no sign of the bird that I was attempting to follow I decided to just focus on the river and wait...after quite a wait I was so pleased that I managed to get this shot with not one but two little swallows swooping over the river!

And of course I can't go a weekend without an attempted macro flower shot of some sort...I was quite happy that I managed to clone out some ugly little bugs that were sitting on these tiny little white flowers. I think I'm getting better at cloning!

Getting away from all my recent nature shots for something a bit different I went for a walk in the afternoon with my camera and came across this little cat that I immediately dubbed 'angry cat' I'm sure you can see why!

So that's my photo wrap for this week...nothing spectacular but I feel good that I'm getting my camera out more and taking some photos - no matter how random!