Chelsea Flower Show

[Mike Farley]

I have just returned from a very enjoyable day at this classic event. As you would imagine, there were lots of crowds, TV crews and photographers. Mostly Canons and Nikons were being sported, although I did see the occasional Sony and Panasonic, and even a solitary Fuji X-T1.

[davidc]

Is this documenting another XT-1 user in the wild? You should enter it in the Nature competition

[Mike Farley]

Is this documenting another XT-1 user in the wild? You should enter it in the Nature competition

The guy was almost certainly shooting with a Canon, which seemed to be the weapon of choice of all the photographers allowed within the hallowed grounds of the show gardens. One of those I observed had a 28-135, which has a useful range but was never one of Canon's better regarded lenses, mounted on the camera. I even spotted someone with a press pass and a 500D replete with kit lens around her neck. The sole person I saw with a Fuji X-T1 was in the marquee and almost certainly a visitor. Unfortunately, it took me by surprise and I lost the opportunity to snap a Fuji user in the wild. Or at least as close to nature as it gets within the tamed and manicured confines of Chelsea.

[Mike Farley]

The BBC's Gardeners' World team was out in force and this is the ever popular Monty Don presenting a segment, shown here in full flow. There were a crowd of women of a "certain age" watching from the sidelines and I was the only man amongst them. I pushed off after I had got my shot, but he did walk past my wife later on. It probably made her day.