Sky On Fire!

The advantage of a very long lens is that you can almost climb inside a sunset. This shot, taken from our balcony on an evening with a particularly dramatic sunset, was one of my first with my new Sigma telephoto zoom. It’s one fabulous lens.

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. ISO1000 1/640 at f8. Handheld.

Just Another Kamala Sunset

when it’s not raining, the monsoon season sunsets in Phuket are consistently spectacular.

Top: Canon 90D with Canon 55-250mm lens at 89mm ISO 800 1/80 at f5

Lower: Canon 100D with Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens at 10mm ISO 800 1/100 at f4.5

Kamala Beach Storm

It has been a while since I posted. Many reasons for that, but there is now a pile of images in the in-tray. Here’s the first. Kamala beach on 10 June in the early morning with a rapidly advancing storm – it’s the monsoon season here in Phuket.

Shot taken on an iPhone SE and enhanced in Lightroom.

Busy bee!

This carpenter bee spent several hours buzzing around the stand of bamboo outside our front door returning many times to improve on a neat hole he was making in a main stem. These bees are totally harmless but get bad press as a result of the damage they do to wood.

We get many in the garden in Italy as well where they are great if clumsy pollinators — their navigation system doesn’t seem to be the best in that they often fly straight into things, like people. I’ll put a set of these shots in the gallery.

Canon 90D with Canon 55-250 f4-5.6 IS STM lens at 250mm ISO640 1/250 at f8. Cropped and polished in LR.

Setting full moon

Fabulous full moon dropping behind the trees beyond our apartment at 05:35 on 8 April, just fours hours away from being completely full.

Canon 90D with Canon 55-250 f4-5.6 IS STM lens at 250mm ISO500 1/20 at f8