Peacock

A recent trip to the Cotswold Wildlife Park with a friend who has just started getting in to photography was a good place to practice on a range of different subjects. Though I'm not a huge fan of these places thanks to most of the animals being out of their natural habitat, there were some which arguably were.

I mis-timed some 300mm lens use when we bumped in to a random peacock with his feathers fanned, but I'm still quite happy with the composition that resulted. 




A different composition of just the feathers.

Beaches

We spent a couple of days in Pembrokeshire last week, taking full advantage of some lovely weather.

The location was a great opportunity for me to try and progress with my landscape photography (not a strong point of mine).

I learn't a few new things about the lens and ND filter, though I still feel I have a long way to go before I'll be totally happy. Looking at other landscape photography, I also need to improve my post processing - though I always used to consider it cheating, I guess for certain things it's no different to professional prints from film.



For the rest of the shots, I felt that while the wide angle (17mm full frame) gave what I wanted in terms of the scope of the lanscape, I had a bit too much in the foreground/background, so decided to crop to a panoramic perspective.