St Leonard's lens test

A quick trip down to Charlecote Park in the bright sunshine as I bought a new (to me) lens today and wanted a quick  test.  Not the best time of day for photography but I'm not too displeased, this is probably one of the quieter parts of the park so ok for footering about with tripods and filters.

The lens is a Canon 17-40 f4,  I'll don't have a big enough polarising filter so this is with a cheap ND grad to take some of the brightness out of the sky.  A previous blip here with another new to me lens, taken at a better time of day.

Come to think of it, I bought the camera body 2nd hand too ...