Abstract (speculum)

Abstract (speculum)

I thought this view centring on the speculum of a mallard drake coming out of eclipse plumage formed a pleasant abstract composition.

Mallard drake

The whole duck in view as it stood by the edge of the West Park boating lake.

Dead oak

Dead oak: distant view

Dead oak tree, seen across a cornfield from a footpath leaving the Solihull village of Balsall Common, and from closer to.

Dead oak: closer view

Reed flowering

Reed flowering

One of the reeds on the margin of the Pool Hall fishing lake last month, when it was flowering.