Never seen this sort of mushroom before

Lunchtime walk in the park.

10 October....Rain all day (again) and a bit too busy for photos.... I only managed a few. Here's something surreal. Note no autumnal colours in the trees yet.

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The most exciting thing that happened today - the washing capsules arrived. No time for anything better.

Back road from Milber.

From the passenger seat obviously!

I had at least thought up this shot earlier, but I didn't imagine that I'd have only 15 minutes to photograph it in wind and rain after 4.5 hours (again) at the hospital with a poorly child (last time was an injured one!). Not too bad considering the conditions. Camera battery was very nearly flat too!

Ah well, that's the October Challenge done for another year. The group was a little muted this year.

This shot also does nicely for the 52 Weeks: the 2019 Edition's Week 44 theme: Night Scene Photography

Sometimes you have to give a little.....

Shot taken for the Photo-a-day-for-a-month group . This is my photo for 25th October

My shiny cutlery I had at the beginning of the year is starting to get a bit scratched now :( but still good for the odd one or two reflection shots.

Canon 50D | 100mm macro | 2.5 SEC | F16| ISO 100

The rest of my October Challenge set here: www.flickr.com/photos/janflicks/sets/72157631674212094/wi...

42 years after I first heard about it, I finally got to visit Corfe Castle in Dorset. I didn't have my big camera as I hadn't expected to go there. This is a 360° panorama turned into a planetary panorama.

On-the-hoof shot with my phone and a torch

The last shot of the month and I ran out of time... and chairs of the same type!

I love the morning sun at least as much as spiders do.

Macro with the Leica Q. No portrait today. Sorry.

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Well, I've enjoyed the October Challenge, but sadly the weather was against me today, so here's a pumpkin, obviously professionally carved, not your average effort, spotted and photographed in case nothing else turned up. Well, I guess something did turn up - RAIN!!!

It's been lovely looking at everyone's varied photographs, see you all around!

between the beach huts at Preston sands.

10 October. The 'Devon Cheetah' makes an appearance in the 31 days of October... as is her way. It might not be her last picture!

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I'm doing a 365 this year too

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It's great when you go fishing for moronic illegal green-laners and you hook a classic 1991 Suzuki Vitara. Weighed in at around a tonne.

The state of the world at the moment is heart-rending. There were two protest rallies in the Melbourne CBD today, one pro-Israel, these photos are from the Free Palestine protest.

Whilst no one can condone the recent Hamas acts of terror, the fact that so many governments are supporting the Israel invasion of Gaza, where children and other innocent civilians are being slaughtered is beyond my belief.

We as a human race are so self-destructive.

October a-photo-a-day, 29/31.

My first go with the Oly M1's in-built focus stacking technique. Very pleased with what it can do, although I wasn't prepared for the fact that it would keep all the files that it merged together into one, and there were a lot by the time I'd finished my session.

Photo 8/10 for the October picture a day challenge.

A dismal day, so just a shot through the window for my 19th photo for October Picture a Day. Out of shot were another six goldfinches

Mosaic of all this years OctoberChallenge shots. Thanks for all your comments and favs. As always its been exasperating at times but generally I am pleased with the set, with only a few fillers. Not too bad overall, and well done to everyone, what a great effort you've all made! Here are the links to this year's offerings:

1. 01/10/2015 Pop art pegs,

2. 02/10/2015 Floating leaf,

3. 03/10/2015 Fern,

4. 04/10/2015 Then as now.,

5. 05/10/2015 One green bottle.,

6. 06/10/2015 Apple core.,

7. 07/10/2015 Smoke,

8. 08/10/2015 Check it out,

9. 09/10/2015 Film,

10. 10/10/2015 Rusty crusty,

11. 11/10/2015 Pepper traffic light,

12. 12/10/2015 Hazy days of film,

13. 13/10/2015 Faster than a comet,

14. 14/10/2015 King Cone,

15. 15/10/2015 Hot Love...,

16. 16/10/2015 Autumn fire,

17. 17/10/2015. Waitin' for the bus,

18. 18/10/2015 Inside the Croc,

19. 19/10/2015 Colour in a sea of grey.,

20. 20/10/2015 Heels,

21. 21/10/2015 A bed for the night. Chiswick flyover.,

22. 22/10/2015 Foxy bingo.,

23. 23/10/2015 Tunnel Vision,

24. 24/10/2015 Shimmer,

25. 25/102015 Uxbridge spiral (revisited blue hour),

26. 26/10/2015 Through the worm hole,

27. 27/10/2015 Brooding graveyard,

28. 28/10/2015 Spider's path,

29. 29/10/2015 Autumnal.,

30. 30/10/2015. Misty summit, Brent Knoll, Somerset,

31. 31/10/2015 Halloween,

The wind turbine stands out against the sunset sky

23/31 October picture a day

Just a quick walk up the road today after 5 o'clock to catch the last of the sunshine.

My spotter informed me that it "might be worth coming to look at the sunset" this evening

A candid of a man soaking up the October sunshine, watched over by a scarecrow.

Photo 064/116 Under the Weather, and

Photo 16/31 for the October picture a day challenge

Photo 20/21 October picture a day.

This is a Grade II listed building and architecturally it is an important house, since it belongs to a short period in English architecture, that of William and Mary who reigned from 1689-1702. This house was built 1698. Still in private hands, but sadly in a very poor state of repair.

Photo 93 Seen Better Days for the 116 Pictures in 2016 Challenge, and

Photo 24/31 for the October Picture a Day challenge.

Fujifilm X-Pro1 with XF 35mm f/1.4.

Got to Teignmouth beach just before dawn to test my newly rebuilt camera on the Queen Mary 2 in the early light. I forgot that Canon completely reset the settings so these could have been better shot in RAW, but not too bad.

Not much time today for photos and after an uninspired walk along the edge of a field, this caught my eye on the way back home.

Photo 13/31 October picture a day.

Combining three challenges in one:

Take an image a day for October

Take an image a day with a theme in mind

Take an image a day with one of your two fixed focal length lenses

Photo 18/31 October Picture a Day

An outing with my U3A photography group today took us along the River Soar from Mountsorrel to Sileby Lock.

Looking beautiful, but less than a month ago this church was desecrated by a group of teenagers from a nearby town.

We put it all back and cleaned up, but the Police are yet to interview the morons we suspect are responsible.

Norman doesn't like staying at heel. Noman likes charging out of woods and across fields

Other trees are holding out....

30/31 October

I heard there was an Airbus A330-243 Government of Canada aircraft arriving at East Midlands Airport today, a rare visitor, so that was going to be my photo for today. However on my way to my preferred shooting spot I got waylaid by this lovely patch of poppies. It almost made me late for the aircraft shot. However the poppies won for my October Picture a day. (Aircraft shot in photo stream).

The poppy shot is a double exposure but with nothing much around to use as a second shot, I used the sky which gave the photo a matte like effect.

Photo 10/31 October Picture a day.

Out with my walking group today, we crossed Stonebow Bridge which is within Garendon Park near Shepshed/Loughborough. It is most likely medieval.

Photo 7/10 for the October picture a day group.

The color in this photo actually came from the photo itself. The unprocessed photo looked plain silver, but I was able to pull out a great deal of color in Photoshop.

To see how I processed this photo, visit the Epic Edits Weblog.

This photo is also featured on the Fine Art Photoblog.

Day one and had to make do with a scrambled snap before bed after a long shift at work... Must do better.

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