April highlights

Here are my highlights from April.  Few migrants for me, but lots of big clouds and opportunities for some landscape photography.  I did manage to squeeze a Wheatear in before the end of the month though!

Some of these photos have appeared on my social feeds, but some not.  Some might yet make it onto my website. 

Enough words, I hope you enjoy the images.

Redshank

Brent Geese

Curlew

Rowing boat

Tree on bank

Seal

Commute

Crows rising

Birch

Rabbit, with branch

Commute #2

Black Redstart

First Wheatear of the year

Patch Kestrel

Black-headed Gull

Comma

Skylark

Redshank

Garden Bee

Juxtaposition

Garden Coal Tit

Commute #3

Seal in surf

Furrows

Bempton Cliffs, this time with Puffins.

Here are some of the more straightforward images from a recent trip to Bempton Cliffs.  I was lucky enough to be there on the day of a minor Puffin influx.  On the following Good Friday, when the sun was out and all the holidayers turned up to see the Puffins, there were none to be seen.

I'll put some of the images up soon.

Free Nik software bonus

I'd been toying with the idea of purchasing the Nik suite of Lightroom plug-ins, largely because I had continued to see praise heaped on it from the black and white photography community.  I was more than happy to find out recently that google had released it all free to download!

Bonus.

Here are a few that I have processed over the last few days.

Yorkshire

Scotland

Norfolk

Gannet

Hare

Weekly highlights 13 March

Signs of spring!  Ringed Plover returns to the patch while a Stonechat passes through...

Oystercatcher and Hare from the weekend.

Grey Wagtail, Brentford.

More of my photos on the website mikearreff.wix.com/photography

Weekly highlights 21 Feb