Obviously I need to get myself a 400mm lens…..a lot of subjects are just
too far away for the 70-200mm. Anyway, as you may see, I’ve had a wee play
with the brush tool on Lightroom 2, adding some colour where it didn’t exist
in reality. I’m old fashioned enough still to feel I’m cheating!

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Yeah, I’ve posted a similar inverted reflection shot of this summer cottage
before, but it was taken in the summer…….this was in October, as you see
from the intense colours.

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Took this shot of Anna (www.annaguthrie.wordpress.com) for her latest
Spotlight photograph. The light wasn’t very good, and I wasn’t quite in the
mood, but she thinks it’s OK.

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Shot in Småland, Sweden on 20th September with my 130g. Canon 50mm f/1.8
cheap as chips lens on the 5D. The image is a bit soft, but I like it
because there’s a lot of stuff happening. The old farmer on the left was
looking directly into the camera, and look at the guy in the top left corner
gazing intently at the man in the leather jacket seated at the table, who
was distributing customer numbers for the auction.

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Last week, and the week before, the elk hunt was in progress. Really,
shooting an elk seems to me as challenging as shooting a horse, with no
danger whatsoever to the hunter. Such beautiful, gentle creatures - unless
you hit one in the dark with your car, in which they can definitely kill
you, as its long legs means that the very heavy body comes through your
windscreen.Anyway, here’s a painting that we bought at a farm auction in
Småland in the south of Sweden for about £3.00………..I would just LOVE
to have taken a photo of it in similar dawn light!

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Down beyond an abandoned farmstead is a a tiny lake. Someone had built a
little ‘bus shelter’ fishing hut. I sat there for a while, dreaming of
seeing an elk (moose) coming to drink. Of course it didn’t, but this shot
perhaps let you feel the tranquillity of the location.

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On Thursday the snow arrived, but here’s a shot taken 4 weeks earlier. The
autumn colours were so intense and beautiful. Dubblebo is an old summer
pasture - just 2 houses - and over the last few years a nice woman has been
keeping her cows there over the summer months. The last time we met her, she
was about to leave because her cows were ‘getting spooked by the bears’, and
so was was she!

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Bengt-Erik is an artist with a chainsaw, and of course, he shuns the need
for any protective gear, as he has been doing it since he was 16. Here he is
cutting a channel to take a sub frame for the front door.

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