here, have some photos of the hawk (and his falconer) who was visiting Billy Bishop today

such a calm little guy... 

(all four: Nikon Z f, Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S, shot at f/2.8)

they should let me in the haunted lighthouse on Gibraltar Point

I am responsible and can be trusted in the haunted lighthouse on Gibraltar Point

something I really like about the iphone camera (maybe other smartphone cameras) is the internal reflections you get when taking photos of bright objects

take this photo of the sun starting to set, for example: the sun is there, really bright up in the top left, some gentle lens flares coming off it, bright reflection in the water, and then in the bottom right of the image you get this random bright circle that’s actually an internal reflection of the sun within the lens

you can control where it ends up, it moves around based on the angle of the camera, and it gives you an extra element you can use in your composition. it’s a lens artifact, and the image processing the iphone does often gets rid of it, but… it can be nice, sometimes! like lens flares generally