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Indian Summer

With England basking in a late Indian Summer, we've been having some terrific sunrises over misty fields:

Autumn Sunrise
I shot this with the iPhone4 and in my opinion the quality and immediacy of such devices mark the death knell of the traditional compact camera.

Also shot these dahlias in the morning light.
Note that these were the real colours and not enhanced in software :-)

Dahlias
I used my Nikon D300s, 70-200 f/2.8G VR II and TC-1.4E II converter for this shot and all the following images, which were captured in the local fields just after sunrise:

Wildflower Covered in Dew

Morning Dew

Lone Bunny

Bark

Wild Rose

Field Funghi
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