If you've read my travel entries on my main mental health and lifestyle blog, you know that 2 dyas after our visit to Nunhead cemetery, we went to St James's park. There are all headed under the keyword UK1018 (as in, October 2018).
Today, I share our photos in this park, most of them shot at its lake and showing various sea-fearing birds. Shots are done with the point-and-shot Kodak Z915, which is a 10MP with X10 digital zoom (maybe a short review shall be published at some point).
This is the second part of the color mood : whites, started a couple days ago.
You'll see statues, nature (butterfly, flowers), and snowy landscapes.
As promised, I want to share with you some of my good bird photos. It's not always easy to get close enough to have them in fullest possible screen, so I have to zoom and then in post-production, edit levels, contrast, saturation, brightness, and crop the image to focus as much as I can on my bird subjects.
As an introvert child, I preferred to withdraw from games with class mates during playtime, and, without permission, would leave school premises. I discovered that I loved observing birds, so one day after winning a scratch lottery ticket, I bought binoculars so I could watch them from farther away.
The first part of Lavaudieu's photo diary concentrated on the village itself, and now I present natural Lavaudieu for this second part, concentrating on nature : flowers and insects were quite present, and I had the amazing chance to photograph both dragonflies and a hawk-moth, which had been so difficult to see and shoot as they are so fast and tend to be far away from my lenses.
In this album, you'll see fishes from the river, a bee and a butterfly sharing lavender flowers, and a flock of finches sharing a tree with swallows.
I tweaked only levels, contrasts, and color balances (adding or deleting lightness and/or saturation).
I totally de-saturated one of the fish photos.
Enjoy !
