Disaster! My trusty video camera has died! That means until I can get it fixed there will be no slow motion and no super close ups. The only camera I have is awful for nature shots but it will have to do for now. Its an old Fujifilm S5500. Anyhow, I took it to Bradgate Park early in the morning and caught some of the Red Deer rut. However the only deer I managed to photograph with no motion blur was this one, and as you can see this one could well have been asleep.
Still the morning was beautiful and the sky blue. As far as the eye could see a mist covered the land. It reminded me of cloud inversions that I have occasionally seen on mountains. For a while I could kid myself that the hill of Bradgate park was the Summit of Snowdon or some other hill.
As the day warmed up, Leicester began to emerge from the white gloom. The tops of the buildings appearing first.
Then on the distant horizon Billesdon Coplow, like a distant battleship on a murky sea, caught my eye. Itself, for a time, the only other land above the mist.
The last image is great and reminds me that I must make the effort to get down to my local park, the fox covert at Billesdon Coplow is quite a landmark. That "not red" fallow stag looks as if it's stuck in a rut though!
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