More of our River walk.

Hello,
            Well with the internet being full of all the talk of the new Samsung NX1, I thought that I'd post some more images from our walk alongside the River Rhondda Fach. The walkway is along the site of the old railway line that used to carry the empty coal trucks up the valley, and the full ones down it. Of course, thanks to that Bl***Y woman Thatcher, we have no collieries left in the valleys now, so no use for a railway line, since that other one, Dr. Beeching. killed our passenger carrying service too. But nevertheless, life goes on, and, since the demise of the collieries, our river is once again running clean and pure. There are fish here too, as can be seen by the presence of herons, up and down the valley. But for this trip, flora only, we'll leave the fauna for another time.

From here on, for the next few pages, most, if not all images will have been captured using the excellent Samsung SK D-Xenon Macro lens. First up is an image of the sky........Or is it? Look at the little silver speck.

See, not a silver speck is it? No, it's a helicopter, and the NX30 has frozen its rotor blades, Have a look at the 100% crop below.

See how the NX30's sensor has captured the detail of the windows. Remember this is taken using only a 100m.m lens.

A little further on up the valley and we came to some flowers. I do not know the name of them, but they resemble Antirrhinum. This is a very pale pink one, but they vary a lot in the shade of pink. look down the flowers throat.

Also demonstrated in this image is the effect of a small f stop. The f stop is the size of the aperture on the lens. The higher the number. the smaller the hole, (aperture). The smaller the hole, the greater the depth of field. Put simple. this means that the more DOF that you have in any image, the more of the individual items within that image will be in focus. Look at the leaf to the right of the middle flower, it's blurred.

   Well that's all for now. Have fum looking at the fantastic new Samsung NX1 images and vids that are all over the internet. Until next time, take care of yourselves, and each other. Regards Twm.