Visited the Butterfly house at Cumberland House, Natural History Museum in Southsea on Wednesday morning and managed to these two shots using my Olympus OM-1 with the 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens handheld, of a couple of butterflies.

My photo of the week was shot whilst on a walk from the Ship Inn at Langstone to Emsworth and back via the Langstone Mill Pond where I managed to get this image of a Shelduck using my Olympus OM-1 with the 150-600mm f6.3 Tele zoom at 600mm handheld.

This weeks photo of the week is an image I shot whilst out walking from Purbrook heath at Sawger's Wood of a display of Bluebells with my OM System OM-3 plus the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens handheld.

My photos of the week are a couple of images of the spring wild flowers and blossom, shot last week whilst out walking Maggie around Fort Purbrook, on Portsdown Hill, shot with my OM System OM-3,  plus the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens handheld

My photos of the week. A couple of images of Dartford Warblers shot with my Olympus OM-1 with a 150-600mm tele zoom lens handheld, first photo taken at Browndown Lee-On-Solent and the second at Thrusley Common.

Three images from my visit to Salisbury Cathedral and Water Meadows with the Emsworth U3a Camera Workshop group on Monday 31st March 2025 with hot and bright weather, all images shot using my Olympus OM-1 handheld, first two photos shot with the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens inside the Cathedral, the third photo shot at the Water Meadows, with the 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens plus a 1.4x convert.

My photo of the week was taken on Sunday 30th March 2025, whilst out in Langstone Harbour with Sue in the kayak and Mary on a paddle board, shot from my kayak with my Olympus TG6 .

A couple photos of the week, from our trip on a narrow boat from Bradford-on-Avon wharf to Bath upper lock basin and back, along the Kennet and Avon canal last week. All images shot with my OMD OM-3 with either the 12-40mm or 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens, 1st image of a Heron in the early morning sun with the 40-150mm plus a 1.4x Convert handheld, 2nd image sunsetting over Bath with the 12-40 mm shot from the canal towpath handheld, the 3rd image a night shot of Pulteney Bridge and weir on the River Avon at Bath, with the 12-40mm lens on a tripod.

This week three black & white 35mm film images shot at the end of 2024 with my Olympus 35RC and the OM-4Ti, all with ilford HP4 plus film developed locally. The negatives where scanned using my OMD OM-3 digital camera at home and processed in Lightroom, the first two images with the 35RC at Emsworth and Charles Dickens house in Portsmouth, and the last with the OM-4Ti at Winchester.

At last I managed to get a good sunset image of Stonehenge shot on Tuesday 4th March on a cold clear sky evening using my Olympus OM-1 with the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens on a tripod.

Three images from my visit to Salisbury Cathedral and Water Meadows with the Emsworth U3a Camera Workshop group on Monday 31st March 2025 with hot and bright weather, all images shot using my Olympus OM-1 handheld, first two photos shot with the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens inside the Cathedral, the third photo shot at the Water Meadows, with the 40-150mm f2.8 Pro lens plus a 1.4x convert.

Some images from my visit to Salisbury Cathedral and Water Meadows with the Emsworth U3a Camera Workshop Group on a hot and bright Monday 31st March 2025. First two images where shot inside the Cathedral with my Olympus OM-1 with the 12-40mm f2.8 Pro lens handheld, with the third image shot at the water meadows with the 40-150mm f2.8 pro lens plus a 1.4x convert again handheld.