Southampton General Hospital
What a lovely start to the day, with yet again wall to wall blue skies, though I suspect it was pretty cold outside, despite it being very sunny.
There were quite a few birds flying about, mainly Carrion Crows and Jackdaws, leaving their overnight roosts and heading off to their feeding grounds.
Also noted were a few Herring Gulls and two finch sps.
My futile attempt at photographing a passing Herring Gull. Two problems here, one it's silhouetted against the sun, plus I forgot to change the shutter speed from 1/250 to 1/500, which would have meant I wouldn't have picked up so much movement in the birds flight.
However there is another method of capturing a bird in flight which perhaps I should have adopted, and that is a technique called panning.
Not a method used that often, but one where you can use a relatively slow shutter speed, whilst moving the camera at the same speed as the bird. As long as you maintain continual focus and continually follow the bird, you can fire the shutter release button and hopefully have a perfectly in focus bird in flight. I will try and give it a go next time.
This is a Mexican Orange Blossom (Choisya ternata).....
.......a shrub I actually have in my garden back home
And these are......
....Greater Celandines (Chelidonium majus)
Not a plant, but a Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
Another view of the gardens
Ships today
This is the French Container Ship "CMA CGA Sorbonne"........
.....moored up in Southamptons Western Docks.
