It’s been a long while since I lasted posted here, and this hasn’t been the easiest winter for me to get out and about. At the back end of last year I managed to get a very wide angle zoom lens – or a very wide angle for a Micro Four-thirds camera at least.  It is the 35mm equivalent of 14-28mm f4 and is a very high quality piece of optics, but its been sitting gathering dust, as I waited for a proper opportunity to test it out…

This morning I trundled out in the howling wind over a well trodden piece of the Heath, and was very happy with the landscape: a touch of bleakness, hints of spring colour, and the sun breaking through the ragged clouds. Unfortunately, I found that a wide angle lens is actually a very difficult thing to use – it is very hard to find a subject in amongst all the vast space being photographed, even when you’re pointing straight at something interesting. Better is to get the camera low, and let the foreground do the work of presenting scope and scale.

In the end, I was only moderately happy with about four of the photos from this relatively short shoot, though I’m now determined to master the Wide-angle lens!