An afternoon with the G9

One of the perks of wedding photography being a seasonal beast is that I get the chance to get out and do my own thing in the winter.  Today the sun was shining, I was pretty well caught up on processing so I grabbed my little Canon Powershot G9 and went out for a couple of hours.The G9 is a great alternative to lugging the digital SLR and various lenses about, it's small, light, shoots in RAW, has full manual mode, a decent zoom range and can do macro when needed.All of the below shots are out of the G9, it's a small point & shoot so the lens quality obviously isn't up to the Canon L-Series glass I usually use but for online viewing it's hard to tell the difference.Walking alongside the steam railway track I found a little brick hut complete with fireplace, I have no idea how old it is or it's original purpose but it must have kept someone cosy (and from the looks of it someone had been inhabiting it a bit more recently too!).This old lock on the door is pretty solid, unfortunately the other end of the chain isn't exactly secured in the door, it slips over the hook allowing nosey photographers to stick their head in and have a look around.The snowdrops are out in force as you can see from the below shot.  The above shot is the view directly above me while I was lying down in the wet moss photographing the snowdrops.A few of the Autumn's berries remain.  I guess the birds don't like the taste of these?