Sight Bytes
Fog rolled in from the sea and shrouded the hills along the South Downs over three consecutive days this week. This bought a certain eery drama to the woodland and surrounding area that compelled me to go out with my camera as dusk was approaching.
Being a keen forager of wild foods with an interest in mycology it has been great to spend some quiet time taking images of some of the fungus in Glyndebourne Wood in East Sussex. They seem particularly prolific this year and it was a good way to become acquainted with the Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestor 2.8/100 which I recently acquired after a year of seeking one in good condition at a reasonable price.
For these images the lens was mounted on my Fujifilm XT-2 using a Zhongyi Lens Turbo II focal reducer or a helicoid adaptor to allow closer focussing.
While focussing on the fungi themselves I wanted to capture some of the dim damp atmosphere of the woodland they stood in and retain a feeling of the space around them.
Boquer Valley, Mallorca.
Port de Pollença and Pollença, Mallorca.
Burn
Glyndebourne Wood, Halland East Sussex UK
Broke
Hemsley’s Rough Halland East Sussex UK
Downsteram
Barcombe Mills East Sussex UK
Bridge
Barcombe Mills East Sussex UK
Idyl
Heighton Street Firle East Sussex UK
Hegemony
Beggar’s Lane Newtimber West Sussex UK
Fold
Bramber Castle West Sussex UK
Choke
Pepper’s Pond, Spithandle Lane West Sussex UK
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Cuckmere Haven
Cuckmere Haven
Ovingdean
Ovingdean
Brighton
Shoreham Harbour
Read
Speak
Sing
Shakespeare’s Head Pub
Brighton UK
25/08/19
Shack
Workshop
Ashdown Forest
East Sussex UK
26/05/19
Chatham Place
Brighton UK
23/01/17
Basket
Protection
Bedside
17/05/19
Sulphur crested Cockatoo
East Sussex UK
13/05/19
Ashy Faced Owl
Kent UK
05/05/19
April
278
Shepherd
UKO 263683
642
643
Piebald
Brothers (#79)
Bars
Poynings
West Sussex UK
Fujifilm XT-2 | Meyer Optik Görlitz 1Q Orestegor 4/200
The stalker of Bedlam Lane
Kent
04/05/19
Portrait of J (III)
RIP brother
Oxfordshire 28/12/17
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
(Omar Khayyam)
Mill Lane
Poynings
West Sussex UK
04/04/19
Meyer Optik Görlitz Orestegor 200mm f/4
What we think of as past is still someone’s present.
Iron age roundhouse
Glyndebourne Wood
Halland
East Sussex UK
29/04/19
Glyndebourne Wood
Halland
East Sussex UK
23/04/19
Beggar’s Lane
Newtimber
West Sussex UK
04/04/19
Tilley lamp
Poynings
West Sussex UK
27/02/19
Helios 44-2 2/58 N0036979
Fujifilm XT-2
Rottingdean
East Sussex UK
14/03/19
Windmill
Rottingdean
East Sussex UK
14/03/19
Mill Lane
Poynings
West Sussex UK
14/02/18
Elm tree
Grand Parade
Brighton UK
08/03/19
Cranes over Grand Parade
Brighton UK
08/03/19
‘Mother of the woods’
Dead Beech tree near Chanctonbury Ring
West Sussex UK
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As I walked up through the woods on the North side of the ridge following a line of ancient Beech trees toward Chanctonbury Ring I came across a large area of felled Ash trees and feared this tree with it’s outstretched boughs may have gone. Since I first photographed this tree in January 2015 what life it had then has since dwindled and the surrounding area is strewn with fragments of dropped branches – many no doubt loosed by the stormy weather over the last few days. While I had hoped to see this tree grow further in the years to come it’s location might mean it was older than it’s size suggests. Despite this it still stands, reaching aloft among the surrounding Ash trees which may not be there for much longer.
Eyeteeth 