A different take on the Fimi Palm

 

If you've come here from my youtube channel, may i say welcome, as i said the little 3 axis gimbal  fimi Palm I think is a brilliant concept in photo stabilisation, but from the time i had it in my hand, it's also a very delicate bit of gear. I still keep looking at it on youtube to see what others are saying about it, there's lots of positive reviews but there are also some who seem a bit wary like me, so watch this space. 

More to follow.

Three Fucias

 Looking round our garden these three fucia bushes caught my eye. Two of them are small container bushes, while the middle one is in the ground  and grows quite large, but they are all different and i have googled for the names but finding it very difficult to find the exact name of each.

The top one looks a bit like  fucia snowdrop.     

The middle one looks like shrimp cocktail or lady thumb.

The bottom pic i think could be tom thumb but i wouldn't like to put money on any of them, as there are so many, but if anyone can throw some light on the subject please feel free in the comments or tweet me.

Hello Mr. Hedgehog

 Yes, our first visit from  a hedgehog since the late icy spring a few years ago. We used to see them every night in the summer wandering the grounds at dusk, sorry sounds posh, but we live in sheltered housing, the wife was manager & i was gardener/cleaner, so i was very much aware & interested in the nature & surrounding area. They used to come into our own private garden to drink at our pond, which went & became a lawn , so it was quite a surprise when we saw one the other night, I'm so glad they are around again.

garden photos June 2020

Been playing around with some phone lenses so here are a couple taken with the Lieqi 180 degree fish eye lens which gives another take on how you see  the world, in fact i quite like it.

and here is another shot

the lens kit I purchased from Amazon in 2016, it was the Lieqi  comprising  a 0.4x super wide lens 

plus an 180 degree fish eye lens plus a 10x Macro lens.

Stay at home protect the Nhs

Hope you are all keeping safe,unlike D. Cummings, I voted for Brexit but Cummings's actions were wrong & he must either resign or be sacked.

Goldfinch

look what landed on our bird bath the other day, a beautiful Goldfinch, what a colourful bird, makes a nice change from the wood pigeons, crows, jackdaws, magpies, robins, & others. i'm now leaving camera running to see what other varieties we can see. we had seen a couple of very colourful birds but couldn't just make out what they were, but now i'm on the case.

note on pictures

please note photos on here prior to 2019 were hosted on tinypic.com, which has ceased trading, so I will repost them asap, thanks in advance, dave.