After a slightly ‘slow’ morning, we woke ourselves up with a gentle walk around the perimeter path of the RSPB reserve at Fowlmere.
There’s a lot of water in the chalk stream and ponds, and brown trout are spawning. Few other animals are around, and nothing within range of my wide-angle lens, although a kestrel was hovering in the field by the entrance road.
I’d taken the full-spectrum converted camera, with an 850nm filter for monochrome images.
I like the way this combination renders the contrasts between black water and dark, damp soil, and the pale grass and evergreen foliage, and pulls detail out of mid-toned timber and the rather leaden sky.
Tracks
Chalk stream, reeds, branches and grasses
Ivy tangle
Cut branches
Reeds and water
Pond reflections