It was Bank Holiday Monday. We were eating brunch (a meal that became a lot less fun when I discovered it supposed to be instead of breakfast and lunch, not as well as). I was just about to shovel in another mouthful of scrambled egg when I noticed something incredibly amazing and downed-tools to run to the window. The sun was out!

The sun only lasted about an hour but I rushed out, camera in hand, to the nearest place that was vaguely photogenic and snapped like crazy. It was somewhat surprising to see that nature was still on schedule even if the weather was lagging a couple of months behind.

All taken (very quickly) with my Canon 5D MkII and 135mm f/2.0 lens

Autumn can be quite show-offy and brazenly colourful at times, don’t you think?

Often though it is quite muted and serene.

These are from a late afternoon stroll in the old cemetery over the weekend – it was dark by teatime and a brisk pace was required to get out of there before the veil of darkness (and spookiness) descended…

It’s a bank holiday here in the UK and that means the fair is in town!

I thought this would be a good opportunity to test (ahem) my new camera which I had just loaded with film. More about those pics later. Here’s some of the the walk we took to get there – through the old Victorian cemetery – quite a juxtaposition; couldn’t be more different to a fun-fair!