Winter Quince

Yesterday I went down the increasingly muddy garden to put some stuff on  the compost heap. On the way back I noticed that the quince that had fallen in the autumn were glowing beneath the quince bush. I picked them up and they were still as hard as golf balls. So I brought them in and washed them and took some photos of them in the dish we brought back from (namedrop) Rajasthan.


The lighting was terrible - just an ordinary bulb directly overhead. But I did a proper white balance test (a first) and created a pre-set to inform the white balance. I was terribly impressed with myself.

You can see the results on my blog. This morning I came down to the most  brilliant winter sunshine angling into the kitchen. Two foxes were coupling in the garden and a woodpecker was drumming away his territorial song.

I took a rapid series of photos of the blessed quince in the strong, angular light  without repeating the white balance text as time seemed of the essence - the movement of the earth to the sun is remarkable when you see a series of shots from a still point.

I've ummhed and ahhed over the better shot but then that also depends on what you want. I'll put my favourite three up on the blog with a little explanation of each one - as much for my memory as anyone elses' benefit.

Then I was off to Deal to shop but had to stop to take a few photos of the huge sky over the North Downs in the biting wind. By the afternoon cold sleety rain had set in.