While I’m still saving up and lusting after the Fujifilm S5800 (as explained in the previous post) I’ve still been using my trusty little F700 to take photos this ’summer’. Actually, the islands have been very fortunate and had much better weather than the mainland. Even when the rain was pouring down and the floods were rising on the mainland, we were having our rain at night and then the clearance came along at about 11am – visitors had a leisurely breakfast and lazed around until the weather improved before going out.

So, here are some photos I took:

First, a red hot poker, but this is the bigger, fatter, autumn-flowering Kniphofia rooperi.

This is a close up from underneath of one of the flower spikes on our yucca

This one is a fluke shot of a housemartin returning to one of the nests under the eaves of our house

And this is the beautiful and unusual flower of Stapelia variegata – a small variety of Carrion Flower

I hope you like the photos. I tend to be much more ‘picky’ about images since I took T189 but I’m still not a skilled user of Elements despite all the work we did with it. Cropping, sharpening, levels and straightening tend to be my stock tools.

Now I must go … we’re out to dinner with friends this evening and I don’t know WHAT to wear!!!