Chasers And Damselflies

Not a huge amount of success on my first dragonfly and damselfly hunting trips to Paxton Pits.  I am fairly sure the dragons are Scarce Chasers.  I have no idea as to the damselfly species.  They all look the same to me.

Baby Bunnies

 Taken at Paxton Pits.  All together now...aww!

Cow-parsley, multiple exposure images

Photographing the cow-parsley, that blooms on the bank behind my house, has become an annual ritual.  Of course, if the subject doesn't change the approach to shooting it should.  This year I decided to try in-camera multiple exposure images.  I wanted to get something impressionistic and painterly, rather than totally abstract.  

One of the annoying things about the Olympus Om-D E-M1 is that its multiple exposure mode only allows two images to be combined.  It is possible to select that double image as the first image in a second double shot, and build up from there.  But, honestly, who can be bothered?  Instead it was back to the trusty old Canon 7D.  This has a lot more options regarding both the number of images that can be combined and the blending method.  The drawback of the 7D is the lack of electronic viewfinder, meaning I couldn't see the overlay of the previous shot(s).  I tried using the rear screen to compose, but the light was too strong to see properly, so in the end I just trusted to luck.

Each of these images is an 8-shot in-camera multiple exposure, combined in additive mode.  I made very slight movements between shots, whilst trying to focus on a single point.  I found that the least amount of movement gave me the look I was after.