Tame calves, wild processing

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PHOTO
Taking photographs when the sun is at its highest isn't recommended: nor, usually, is placing your subject in the centre of the composition. And as for wild processing - well, make up your own mind!

QUOTO
"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk"
Ogden Nash (1902-1971), US poet

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Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom at 22mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/640
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -1.3EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen

Constable's clouds

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PHOTO
As I walked along this country lane near Churchtown, Lancashire, cow parsley and may blossom lining my way, I looked up at the clouds and understood why the English painter, John Constable, spent much of his life trying to capture their transient beauty.

QUOTO
"Spring goeth all in white,
Crowned with milk-white may:
In fleecy flocks of light
O'er heaven the white clouds stray."
Robert Seymour Bridges (1844-1930), English poet

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Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom @ 22mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f7.1
Shutter Speed: 1/1000
ISO: 100
Exposure Compensation: -1.0EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen

Newly-opened leaves

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PHOTO
On a misty, and overcast day in the Forest of Bowland willow and larch were showing their spring green. And so too was this recently opened cluster of sycamore leaves on a branch above my head.

QUOTO
"When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripples of rain."
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), English poet

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Mode: Aperture Priority
Focal Length: Zoom @ 256mm (35mm equiv.)
F No: f6.3
Shutter Speed: 1/800
ISO: 200
Exposure Compensation: -0.7EV

photograph (c) T. Boughen