Winter Photos around Partille

For most of winter I haven’t been going out and taking any photos. It’s been too dark, and (almost) all the birds have migrated south. Last weekend, however, I took a very short – five minute – train up to Jonsered, and got a few nice images.

I thought this was a pretty cool picture with that blurry chap in the foreground. In fact, the reason he’s quite so out of focus is that I was using a super long lens here, my 150-600mm Tamron, at close to full zoom. It’s a really fun lens to use, but really really heavy, and slightly hard to hold still. The active stabilisation helps.

The last photo for today is the following magpie.

This demonstrates a bit better what this lens is capable of. It’s not completely sharp, especially around the magpie’s dishevelled facial fluff. I think this is likely to be my fault though, I still haven’t quite got the hang of what kind of shutter speed I need to take sharp hand-held photos with this.

Funnily enough, although I did get to Jonsered for my walk, I didn’t get any good photos there at all. The magpie was just sitting on a street-tree, so to speak.