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These flowers are Anemone Blanda a very beautiful small flower that seems to come up every year as a single flowering plant, however this year there are two plants, great joy. The size of the flower head is approximately 4cm. When the weather is overcast the flowers stay tightly closed as shown in the second photograph.

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A few spring flowers seen in a local churchyard. The ladybug wasn't very cooperative. Also the magnolia buds are begining to open.

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Light Trails
My eldest grandson explained to me how he had recently been out one evening with his group of Explorer Scouts and had stood and watched the traffic on the M1 motorway and because it was slightly foggy he marvelled at how the motorway lights had looked in those conditions.

He asked if we could revisit the observation spot, at Stoney Clouds, Sandiacre, which we did on Sunday 20th March 2011, unfortunately there was not fog or mist to add to the photography. Here are a few of my photographs. It is interesting to see the strobing effect of the motorway lights on the vehicles, look carefully at the logos on the sides of the lorries and it is possible to detect this strobing effect, it appears as multiple changes in light intensity.

Lots of changes in exposure and ISO, from 200 up to 6400, to achieve the results.

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On 19th March 2011 the moon was in Perigee this is the closest point to the earth and it is in this stage that the moon appears larger. Looking at the moon in the sky without anything to compare it to, you wouldn't notice any size difference. But the difference in size can in fact be quite significant.

This is my two pennyworth, in the second shot the small bright spot to the lower left of the moon is a navigation light on an aircraft. Shot hand held at ISO 2000, 1/1250 @ f5.6.

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Taken because it is there, Derby Cathedral a five shot vertical panorama.

I saw this paving shimmering in the sunlight outside of the Old Silk Mill in Derby. Used Topaz Adjust to add something to the image.


Original shot below