On a dreich day......

The scots have a word for today's weather - 'dreich' - which when you say it conjures the real atmosphere of a grey and wet, miserable day. Thanks heavens for higher ISOs as without them it might have been a blipless day. I have always tended to go for the lowest ISO on the grounds that it will give me the best quality picture. However, using DxO software to counteract the noise I find I can happily shoot at 800 to 1600 without any loss of quality. It takes a while to remove the noise, about 2-3 minutes if you are transferring from Lightroom, but as it is said to sample a thousand pixels around each pixel for its algorithm it is well worth there wait.

I liked the inverted hooked neck reflections of these swans and managed to get only one shot in which they were all facing the same way.