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I was lucky enough to get a tilt shift lens for Christmas. I have a Nikon system and for some reason Nikon supplies the lens with the tilt and shift aligned at 90°. The lens needs to be sent back to Nikon who, for the princely sum of £160 will re-align it so that the tilt and shift are in the same plane. I read that I was supposed to do this in order to get the lens to work properly for landscape photography, although my idea as to why was shaky. Now I have the lens back it makes a little more sense, but I will have to do a lot of work in order to use it correctly. The main problem using the lens with the D800 is that the locking knob for the shift, when the lens has been rotated (the front of the lens can be rotated in relation to the back of the lens), lies directly under the popup flash which makes it difficult to adjust. Fortunately I have fairly small hands. I would strongly advise not to use this lens when out with a non photographer as they will get really, really impatient. ...

Last week we visited Anglesey Abbey, not to go inside the grounds, but to take the dog for a walk along the Lode. It was a lovely day (for a change) and although a weekday the Abbey car park was full of people come to see the snowdrops. Here are several straight pictures and then three with ICM. I got some whacky colours with one of them - presumably due to flare.The windmills were snapped at the end of the day near the A11. I mistakenly took all these pictures as jpegs, not raw, but the Fuji produces some wonderful jpegs

Anglesey Abbey is a house on the outskirts of Cambridge, now owned by the National Trust. I visited here, before the weather grew hot with Mairi and Rene. Here are a few pictures from the day. First there is Rene and Mairi and then some dragged images of the grove of Himalayan birches they have there (well someone had to do it!). Following from that there are some garden flowers, elder and pine cones, then a doorway and a vista of a crocodile of school children traversing the meadow.

Last week the temperatures fell low enough for some hoar frost, so I took myself to Anglesey Abbey. I had intended to go into the parkland and photograph the stands of trees but they had stopped access to all the grass areas, so I had to be content with the areas round the parks and a bit of minimal trespassing. Contra jour over lake to grove of trees beyond Similar looking in to cedar Lode Mill Poplars by Lode Mill White Himalayan Birches

I have been looking through all my pictures for items to use for a panel. In so doing I have come acros stuff I had more or less forgotten about. I always hope the latest things I have done are the best, but the weather has not been kind lately, so here are a couple of past numbers! This was taken in Anglesey Abbey last winter and processed using Silver Effex Pro2. This was taken in Wissant, France at the end of a hot September evening last year.