A carpet of lemon yellow.

Good Friday and its been blisteringly warm again, so I decided to nip to Brockodale this evening to see if the early purple orchids were out yet. Here and there amongst the short cropped grass was a splash of purple just breaking through into the evening sunlight but the show stopper was the absolute carpet of lemon yellow cowslips nodding gently in the soft evening breeze. I only just managed to avoid crushing any as I got low to try and capture the scene, but I realised pretty quickly that I had not got the correct lens with me – it was crying out for the 24mm PC-E lens! The tilt & shift mechanism of that lens, combined with its ultra close focus, would have helped me secure the image I had in mind – a cowslip large in the foreground with the big vista and all its cousins in the background still in sharp focus. Oh well! In the words of Arnie "I’ll be back!" Here’s a trial image with the 18~200VR zoom which was definitely not the right lens :¬\