Winter gold

A new phase - and I've started my month of seeing if I can manage without Adobe! After using Lightroom since the first (alpha) version appeared (Mac only), I've been running Capture One in parallel for some months, and if I get on all right with it throughout the month then I'll cancel my Adobe subscription. Affinity Photo makes a good substitute for Photoshop for my purposes. As it happens, Capture One 11 was launched to coincide with the changeover.

Another cold morning, with the lily pond completely frozen, and taking this solitary photo today was painful as I had to take of my gloves to handle the camera and monopod.