Cosmos

[puddleshark]

Cosmos: not an image from the James Webb space telescope.



I visited the Walled Garden at Moreton yesterday on my day off, and loitered in the shady bits.



Apart from a few manically cheerful sunflowers, the gardens were looking rather sorry for themselves. Yellow lawns. Purple flowers half-withered on the clematis. Agapanthus drooping in the heat.

Only the sundial garden was resisting:




Ipomoea lobata.







Brimstone butterfly.




Purple Loosestrife in the Bog Garden.


And a Southern Hawker dragonfly.


Hard to photograph gardens on such a bright day.

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Been out a couple of times with the replacement camera now. (A secondhand Canon 80D. The shutter button stopped working on the 77D). It's okay... but definitely not an upgrade. Image quality is pretty much identical, and the 80D has the same problems dealing with high dynamic range. I think that's just a thing with Canon cameras.

And, more annoyingly, the 80D has removed the Landscape and Sport settings from the dial and hidden them under seven layers of menu. Although I shoot in manual 95 per cent of the time, I like to take a couple of back-up pictures using the standard Landscape or Sport settings.