Spreading The Love

So it is Valentine's Day and in honour of that I am spreading the love with shot that I captured last week in Venice, well more precisely on one of the brightly coloured houses in Burano.

Love and Hugs XOX

Emerging fern

Today's photo was one of my first taken with my Canon 100 mm f2.8 macro lens in July 2012.  Although it is a fixed focal length lens the fact that I was using my EOS 450D with its cropped sensor the actual focal length is 162 mm.  For this shot I set the aperture at f4 and ISO 200 exposure time was 1/250s.

Hopefully I haven't lost everybody with the geeky stuff, this blog isn't really about the technical side of photography (because if I go too far I will probably lose myself too) it is more about sharing pictures that I love and that have some meaning for me.

As you will have seen from my earlier posts "fungi" and "bugs are beautiful" and as you will see in future posts I have a fascination with the smaller things in nature, so on this particular day as I walked through Delamere Forest  I was looking for bugs and fungi when I noticed the budding ferns.  I had never seen this stage of the ferns development before and knew that I had to capture this image. 

 

Bracken Heart