Winter Sun = Fun with my Camera

 Every now and then we get stunning still sunny winter days and this week we found ourselves enjoying one while exploring the Lagoons Beach camping area. I loved wandering the beach with my camera.

Winter Beach Fun by  MrsSOnline is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

The tiny hooded plovers dart all over the beach and are very hard to get a photo that shows them anything other than tiny dots. I am lucky to own a reasonable zoom lens that helps 😊 Post photo cropping is then useful as well.

Hooded Plovers Uncropped by  MrsSOnline is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

So with some cropping the above photo becomes a little more focused on the birds rather than the sand bank behind them.

Hooded Plovers Cropped by  MrsSOnline is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

What do you enjoy doing on sunny winter days? Please leave a comment sharing your thoughts.

Temperature Stitching

Have you seen some of the fantastic temperature blankets being shared online? They record the daily temperatures of a place over time.

I was inspired by these to start a temperature stitching. My stitching will record the daily maximum and minimum temperatures for the year.

Temperature Stitching by MrsSOnline is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Each row is 7 days of data and each vesica piscis is a record of the maximum daily temperature and the lines surrounding the vesica piscis are a record of the minimum daily temperature.

I created a key with each colour representing a band of temperatures and have created spreadsheet to work from so that if I get a little behind with the stitching I can come back to it later.

Temperature Stitching Key by MrsSOnline is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

As I stitch, it is great to see the colour changes occurring as we move through the seasons. Hopefully I will keep up and by the end of the year will have a colourful record of our daily temperature changes over time.

Have you ever created a temperature blanket? What other data could be used to create a stitching record over time? Please leave a comment sharing your thoughts.