Scruffy Coal Tit

Little Coal Tit inflight capture just after the rain hence this ones rather scruffy.

The Jumping Spider

Zebra spider
Salticus scenicus

Zebra spiders belong to the family Salticidae (also known as jumping spiders) who are believed to have the best eyesight of any arthropod. If you take a close look at one of these spiders it will often turn its head to look straight back at you.

Physical description
Female zebra spiders are 5-7mm long and males are 5-6mm. The most distinctive feature of these spiders is their two very large eyes. Although they have eight eyes, the two at the front are the largest and give them excellent binocular vision. These tiny spiders are black with white hairs that form stripes.

Image above taken using a Nikon D300 + 28mm Vivitar Lens.

The lens is reversed mounted to the camera to give the magnification.

Glenarm Bridge

Glenarm (from Irish: Gleann Arma meaning "valley of the army") is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies on the North Channel coast north of the town of Larne and the village of Ballygalley, and south of the village of Carnlough. It had a population of 582 people in the 2001 Census. Glenarm takes it name from the glen in which it lies, the southernmost of the nine Glens of Antrim. It is in the Larne Borough Council area.

Armoy Church of Ireland and Round Tower

The round tower was built in the 11th or 12th century. It is now only 10.8m high, but was probably 6m higher. It was used as a bell tower for a time before the current one was built onto St Patrick's church in 1869.

Photo For A Friend

Another family day out along with Rhonda and her dog Doodles.
Took this image of her dog sprinting along the shore line at Hazelbank Whiteabbey.

Glenarm Coastline Northern Ireland

Taken on a day out with the family during the Easter weekend.
Wrong time of day for this sort of image, but thought what to hell make the best of whats provided.
Taken using a friends kit lens, cheers for that James, much appreciated.

Camera Nikon D300
Exposure 30 seconds
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 18 mm
Exposure Bias 0 EV

Manual Mode / Manual Focus.

B+W ND 1000 + ND Grad.

Island Silhouette

 

One of the little Islands just off the shore at Lough Neagh Northern Ireland.

 

While I was taking this image I was entertained with Otters playing in the water about 40ft out, just wish we had brighter light to have captured some images.

Setup was a B+W ND1000 + ND8 + ND2 Grad.
Editing crop and resize, slight desaturation to stop the colours clipping, then pushed up the vibrance. Removed some vegetation from the bottom of the frame.

Main subject off center so text can be inserted on the left.

Comments more than appreciated.
Thanks for looking..Gareth