A frosty day at Nostell Priory

With overnight temperatures of around -3dg and clear skies, it was inevitable that there would be a hard ground frost this morning and so I decided to make the most of the wetaher and headed for a frosty day at Nostell Priory. I travelled light with just the D500 and 200-500VR lens with a 1.4x attached but I also slipped the Pentax 645Z into the bag too to give it a run out. I’ve been using this new camera body for my commercial work recently, but I’d not had it out in the field to test it on a few landscape images. The birdlife was fairly quiet and most of the lakes were frozen but this meant the wintering goosander were pretty much confined to a small area of open water quite near to the banks giving me the photo opportunity I’d been hoping for. In addition to the goosander, I made a few landscape images and a couple of what I would describe as fine art nature images. I only had the one lens with me for the Pentax – the 35mm f/3.5 lens – but it is a pretty versatile focal length for a walkabout shoot.