My Blog - Jeff Clarke

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All images unless otherwise stated © Jeff Clarke 2011

In recent days I've been busy with the Dot2Dot ladybird project for RECORD. The Local Biological Record Centre for Cheshire. The purpose of the project is to engage Cheshire primary school children in locating and identifying ladybirds, so that we can add records to the distribution maps. This project will contribute to the forthcoming 'Provisional Atlas of Cheshire Ladybirds' which I'm just beginning to write and hope to complete over the winter.

As part of the process I'm starting to try and get some better images of the ladybirds of Cheshire. I'm getting a bit frustrated with the quality of my images. I've got good gear, Canon 100mm macro lenses, Canon 7D SLR and yet most images come out soft and some downright blurred. I normally put blurred shots down to the user, but I'm pretty sure there is something not quite right about the camera focusing. Time will tell!

I've put up a few of the latest images but they all needed significant work in Photoshop to get them to an acceptable standard.