Cosmos, Environmental, Everyday Life, Garden, July, Lily, Photography, Weather

Heat Wave….

Our British obsession with the weather continues….as does our amazement that the heat wave, that we have enjoyed for two weeks now, continues.  After two years of record rains, record winds and the lowest of colds and deepest of snow on record….. we now have record high temperatures.  No doubt cool by some folks standards but 31c for us is HIGH!   No complaints here.

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Our second flush of flowers in the garden have yet to break into full bloom but the Day Lilly is leading the way…its hot orange colour matching the temperatures. A touch more cooler are our standard lilies…….

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and of course Cosmos add even more warm colours to the abundance of greens……

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Soon the high summer blooms will fill the garden then all too soon the autumnal colours will appear.

New Blogs may be a little rare over the next few weeks as we are off on holiday.  Whilst I will have my camera with me it is not planned to be like many years – a working holiday.  With luck I will make the occasional posting and some of the destinations may just surprise you….wait and see.

16th JULY

© David Oakes 2013

19 thoughts on “Heat Wave….”

  1. I admire the depth in your lily pictures, David. Using a macro objective I rarely obtain more than 30-35 mm, but you seem to get nearly double that?
    May I ask you if you are using a macro lens or normal lens from a distance zooming in to where you want to be?

    Or does the difference come from an all together different camera?
    Impressive, indeed!

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    1. It is a lens I was talked into many years ago (35mm film camera the) so not modern digital trimmed glass. It is a Tamron 90mm F2.8 Macro AF (though I always use manual focus on close shots). Some times my macro are on a DX camera but these were FX

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  3. Enjoy your holiday, David. Same wish for your wife and dogs. I send most of your newsletters on to friends. Like me, they too find your photos and comments very nice. So enjoy the coming weeks and surprise us! 🙂

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  4. I am starting to laugh now David – I remember your long for Spring and then some heat – and now a heat wave – I love the colours in flowers and how the light filter through the variable petals – I also enjoy cropping in tight turning flowers in to shape and texture shots. Just took a load of these myself at a place called Logie Steadings – one of those free to get in to gems that doesn’t advertise particularly well and gets forgotten about which is great as you have lots of time and space to experiment.personally, I am enjoying the warm weather and associated light breezes – but we are not getting it quiet as hot as you. Take care Scott

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    1. Hi Scott…..for some reason (much beyond my knowledge) yours and one or two other WP bloggers, who have regularly made comment on my blog, have perhaps appeared to have been ignore by me. The answer is that these comments have been going straight into the spam bank! I also admit that I have only been checking the spam box irregularly. Up until now it would appear to have been doing what it was designed for trapping the c*** for which I am grateful. It was another blogger who alerted me to this recent problem on WP so checked….and pleased I was able to salvage a few comments I had missed. So if you do feel that you have been ‘cold shouldered’ blame the spam.

      I always have an eye on the weather in the North East and whilst enjoying the heat wave there have been times when I have envied the report sea breeze! We are heading off to-day, not saying where….if I get some IT connection I hope to be able to post a few images to surprise a few bloggers on their own territory! But with luck* will be heading up to Scotland late autumn (*luck is timing of Jeans 2nd hip op)

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    1. Climate does seem to swing between record highs and lows like never before, There have always been places of extremes in weather but they now seem to be much more wide spread and more common..

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  9. movie-camera? 😀 That’s probably quite another story – yes. Then I’ll be3 experimenting some more 🙂 I feel the need for a depth of at least 60 mm but very hard to come by. Very!

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