A Misty Morn

A "Misty Morn" was a good way to describe what it was like on my latest Parkland walk.

However, just to brighten things up a little, I have started with a shot of a male Great Tit taken later in the morning which was singing a way in a small tree.

This was the first scene I shot with the sun trying to burn through the atmospheric haze.

Then occasionally the sun would burst through breaks in the mist and haze, which showed up specific areas of the parkland.

The river remained quite hazy for a time.

The gulls and swans are beginning to wake up and conduct a great deal of preening before they get on with their daily activities.

Being in the right place at the right time, two Mute Swans over flew my position, buy which time the sun had come out and the sky was blue.

Another pair of Mutes slowly moving up the river.

A departure from the norm in photographic terms. Using a 50mm 1.4 lens I shot this scene below with unconventional camera settings of 1/4000 at f2.8. ISO400.

The blurred look of the surrounding areas of this Robin photograph below, was caused by surrounding twigs and branches and I aimed the camera through the only little available gap to the subject.