Photo 150 - bonneville

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   My notes on Week 15 photos:

W15P1 garage spider
This is a poor shot by any macro standards but it is personal for me as I spent ages puzzling over how soft the image was. Mr (or Mrs, no gender bias here) spider was high up in the corner of my integral garage and I knew that if I told my wife she would freak out until I had humanely removed it, preferrably several miles away. So I quietly set up a step ladder and fired off a few images, thinking that it would scurry away when I pointed my lens close enough for a 1:1 shot. But it stayed put and I uploaded and viewed the images on my MacBook and was puzzled why everyone was soft. I did a reshoot and Mr/Ms spider was still there and again at varying aperture and shutter speed settings I couldn't get a sharp image. Until it dawned on me that the spider was actually stood on its own thick web and I was shooting under it    

Curious why it hadn't packed up and moved on I also discovered that it was dead   

W15P2 Danger of Death
This was on my usual morning dogs walk at Twyford Woods airfield last week and the log stacks were very much higher earlier in the month, hence the sign. I did consider changing the sign to read a more appropriate, "Danger of Minor Bumps and Splinters", but the senior citizen in me thought better of it   

W15P3 Vatnajokull glacier, Iceland, February 2017
Sadly, yet again this is not a particularly good photograph but it is a record of my first encounter with a glacier, close up and personal. Apart from the obvious colouring issues, the problem for me is the lack of scale without anything to reference. In fact the wall of ice at the waters edge was the height of city office and hotel buildings. It was a long way off comparatively and if you look at the wall about a quarter way in from the right you can see a disturbance. While we were standing there a large section slip into the water, with a very loud crashing noise and the wave it generate caused us to grab our kit and run for it before we were swamped with icy cold water!

Iceland is a wonderfully beautiful country but is showing distinct signs of giving up a lot of its ice to warmer temperatures. Indeed we visited in February and found we were often over dressed for the spring like weather we experienced during our stay.

TFL. I thought I'd add a few comments this time, for context sake, but your comments are more important and always welcome  