Had some fun around the garden last week. I bought myself a 5-way reflector and wanted to try it out, then moved on to some flash work in broad daylight:

Taken with available light, Olympus E-PL1 with Kit lens, gold reflector to the right and slightly behind reflecting the sunlight from behind the camera back onto the flower. Here’s the setup shot:

Then, I moved onto pure flash work:

Pen E-PL1, YN560 on a stand camera left.

Saw this dead leaf hanging by a thread from the doorway of our garden shed. E-PL1, Kit lens, YN560 handheld off to camera left. The same setup was used for the following pictures also:

Caught this big drop of rain after a shower in one of the big leaves of this plant (I’ve forgotten the name of it):

That week, my parents were over to visit from the UK. We took them for a lovely walk around the Dietrichsburg in Melle, which has a Wild Boar Park on it’s grounds. But these Foxgloves were more stunning than the local pigs ;0)

Both the above were taken with the PEN and the kit lens in available light.

And to finish off, here’s the Dietrichsburg itself:

We even got luck and stumbled upon a load of boars…

There are more pictures of the wild boars on my Flickr stream.

All images processed with Olympus Viewer2 and RAWTherapee.

Al