I Had A Busy Day

whilst Diana was at work,

looking through the photographs I had taken at Kew Gardens, I had run into a problem, using the 100 - 200mm lens, if I focused on something nearby like a magnolia flower, when I cropped it the image looked fine, but if I zoomed in as I did with these 2 foxes, below

when I cropped the image, the crop was out of focus, 

the same for the bird above, it looked fine in the view finder, but arriving home the out of focus was obvious when the image was cropped, 

so I printed them off to take to the club tonight, 

I then started printing the black & whites I was playing with a few days ago,

it was only when I printed them at A3 size, 

that I could see small areas needed at bit more playing with, a job for a few days time, 

it was by now time for my evening read and glass of milk, no sherry this evening as I am driving to the club and after that picking up Diana,

for tonight a huge beef stew that Diana had left me, after which I was out to the Beckenham Photographic Society meeting, tonight it was the judging of a black & white competition that I had entered 2 prints into last week,

 I choose 'The Shadow', from our trip to Edinburgh in March of 2018,

and 'High Rise Living', taken in Hong Kong when we were there in October 2015, unfortunaly there were only 8 prints entered into my class, so it was a bit of a hollow result taking second and third place, but there it is, hopefully more from my class will enter the next competition, the good news is that chatting to Brian and Nigel, they hopefully have solved the problem that I am having with my cameras focus, apparently the focus box I was using was too big, so it was averaging an area to focus on, not at the point I wanted it to, so next time out I will try again, next off to pick up Diana, arriving home a Endeavour had just started, one we had not watched before, which was a bit of a bonus, after which we were off to bed.