9th October photo - Llyn Brenig

Today I had a fab day's geocaching in Wales. I didn't want to bore you with any more lake pictures as my POTD, so I tried to take some photos of nature instead. I have chosen this photo of some reeds at Alwen reservoir as my POTD because I like the contrast of the dark blue water with the light reeds.

I did take some pics of mushrooms but they have not come out very well. I tried to use my 50mm lens - which does not have auto focus on my Nikon D40 - so I had to manually focus it - I thought they were in focus - but in fact they are all blurred! I really must go and get my eyes tested. So Karen we are spared a copy cat blog photo this time!

I started the day at Llyn Brenig - this is one part of a 5 part series of caches around Welsh lakes this is my second one. It involved quite a long walk around the lake. This is the visitor centre there.

Then I moved on to Alwen reservoir and walked the 7 1/2 miles around the edge of it - it was a lovely walk. The dam was a real old fashioned one - it was nice - but hard to photograph.

As I don't seem to be able to do a blog post without a lake photo these days - here are a couple taken on my walk.

This is the bridge where I took the reed photo of the day.