A glimmer of light

Today, finally, a few rays of light reached the ground in Nottingham. After weeks of the forecast snow turning to unappetising rain and even less appealing sleet interspersed with cold grey skies it was great to get to play with direct sunlight in all its guises once again.

Firstly, I played around with backlighting Herons on Nottingham University's lake (it was too early in the day to get direct light on them). Unfortunately, the light was a little too high to get the effect I was after in this shot but I think I have captured the moment to a certain degree.

For my next few shots I played around with the University's perhaps a little too overly friendly squirrel population. Someone had left a few nuts around and the squirrels were only too happy to pose for me.

This is probably my favourite shot of the afternoon; I personally think the mottled foreground and dark green background combined with the catchlight in the squirrels eye bring it alive.

Lastly I headed back to the Heronry to try and get the inhabitants with a little bit of the now turned light in their faces. This was my favourite shot, quite nice but not quite up to last weeks efforts. Hopefully the light will be this helpful next time I am further afield!

Joining the online world

Hello everyone, just a quick post to let you know that my website is up and running!

It is entirely designed and built by myself so I hope you like it. It is not quite finalised yet; I will be making a few minor changes over the coming weeks but overall I am very happy with the main design. It may be down for short periods during this time while I perfect it.

Please feel free to take a look: www.moonlightimaging.co.uk

Although almost all of my time over the last week or two has been spent getting my website up and running, I have still managed to take a few photos.

This particular shot of two Goosander (honest!) silhouetted against snow clouds was taken about five minutes walk from where I was designing my website in Nottingham University's Biological Photography Department. It is proof that, given the right conditions, an interesting photograph can be taken anywhere and that taking breaks even in busy periods can be productive.

The same is true of the Grey Heron Below.