Pond life in the garden has taken a very sudden jump in the direction of Spring arriving!
A flurry of frogs, a flapping of flippers, a ripple of .. ripples .. and hey presto we now have a pond chock full of spawn.
That combined with it still being light when I get hope - HOORAH!! - and we have ourselves some photography to grab! .. and .. you may have to sit down for this, but I'm actually blogging it the same day!!?! CRAZY! What is this odd behaviour?
Not taken on the new 50mm, but the 135mm and cropped in a fair amount at f/2, also with a fair amount of Lightroom noise reduction, since while it's light, it's not exactly blazing sunshine either!
Also seemed like an opportune moment to drop in a Heron shot from a few months back - the enemy - this one taken long the local canal and hopefully won't be visiting the garden anytime soon (for the sake of the frogs) - although I'm sure there are baby Herons somewhere who would be grateful of our frog-ling farm supplies. Photo is ok, some nice dynamic back lighting and shade, but was waiting for it's time to be blogged, unfortunately it ends up being a co-star to the frogs.
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| Proud parent on frog-spawn guard duty ISO800, 135mm, f/2, 1/125s, cropped, noise reduction (leant on a bucket next to the pond) |
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| Backlit Grey Heron on the Wilt & Berks canal ISO320, 400mm, f/6.3, 1/400s, cropped, noise reduction |
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