Berhills Farm (Friday 8th November 2019)

An early ******mas present from me to me arrived today, a new full frame ultra wide-angle manual prime lens. I rather rashly took it out for a test constitutional without any other lenses, to find its merits and disadvantages. It wasn't the brightest of days but I've no reason to think it won't capture colour when there is any to be had. I have discovered that it isn't a versatile lens. Its angle of view is so wide (126 degrees diagonally) that you have to be very close to your subject, as I found when a heron flew into this field just a short distance away. Through the viewfinder it was a tiny dot, seen from a million miles. I could almost reach out and touch the cow's hoof on the right. On the horizon you can see the Bowood estate. Doesn't that tiny patch of blue sky look inviting?
I hadn't expected the cattle to be in the field, or that the rain had caused so much mud, but there were patches along the path by the canal that were so boggy they were almost impassable. One section took twenty minutes battling around the edges through brambles and stinging nettles to avoid getting sucked in.
In the town centre I photographed a planter to see how the lens dealt with near objects.

L.
8.11.2019 (2014 hr)
(Better in Large)

Blip #3084 (#2834 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #008
Blips/Extras In 2019 #261/265 + #090/100 Extras
Day #3514 (779 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2213 (#2054 + 159 in archived blips)

Calne series
Berhills Farm series
Cattle series
Landscape series

Wide-Angle Calne, 8 November 2019 (Flickr album of 17 photos)

Taken with Pentax K1 Mark II with Irix IL-11FF-PK 11mm F4 Firefly manual full-frame prime lens

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Dry Cleaning - Sit Down Meal (2019)
Taken from the Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP, released in October, and played by Stuart Maconie this week on The Freak  Zone.

One year ago:
The Old Forge